Short weekend; hiking and whitewater rafting, exploring Cataloochee Valley, Gatlinburg, Cherokee, and the "road to nowhere." Subscribe and Check out my other travel videos! Blog | http://www.aperezvoyages.com Instagram | JerseyBoy88 Instead of going to the beach or keeping it local and recently losing a weekend job, I decided to that I wanted to spend my 26th birthday in the mountains. My from Greenville, Sc, my girlfriend and I as well as two other friends venture out to the Smoky Mountains with a pit stop at Cataloochee Valley. Here we saw a few preserved buildings such as a home, barn, and school as well as a nice creek and a great view of the mountains surrounding us. Next stop right passed the state border into Tennessee, I crossed off another item off the bucket list: whitewater rafting. We did some whitewater rafting on the Pidgeon river for a bout two hours before we made our way to our place of stay, our timeshare, Wyndham Smoky Mountains. That evening we grabbed dinner, grabs a few beers, and rode some Go-Karts in Gatlinburg. Early next morning we drove through Gatlinburg and into Great Smokies National Park to the motor trail to hike up to __ Falls. Besides seeing the Titanic Museum in Pidgeon Forge, the rest of the day was spent relaxing. Our final day, we left Wyndham and set off for Cades Cove, a picturesque valley west of Gatlinburg driving higher into the mountains to Clingmans Dome, the highest point of the Smoky Mountains. After a 15 minute heavy rainfall, we decended back into North Carolina into Cherokee Indian territory to check out another waterfall, Mingo Falls. Driving south into and out of Bryson City we reached out final stop, the "road to nowhere", an unfinished government project that leaves an long abandoned tunnel and incomplete road to nothing.

• published: 17 Sep 2014
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