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Pigeon Forge is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, located in the southeastern USA. Situated 5 miles north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is primarily a tourist resort. The city's attractions have included Dollywood and numerous outlet malls and music theaters.
The West Fork of the Little Pigeon River flows north from its source high on the slopes of Mount Collins through Sevier County before linking up with the Middle Fork in Sevierville. Pigeon Forge occupies a narrow valley along this river between Sevierville and Gatlinburg. High ridges surround Pigeon Forge on three sides, with Pine Mountain to the west, Shields Mountain to the east, and Cove Mountain to the south. A bend in the Little Pigeon provides the city's northern border with Sevierville, and a narrow gorge cut by the river between Cove Mountain and Shields Mountain acts as the city's buffer with Gatlinburg.
U.S. Route 441, known as "the Parkway,"
runs through the middle of Pigeon Forge en route to Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, where it crests at Newfound Gap before descending to
Cherokee, North Carolina. The strip along 441 contains most of Pigeon Forge's
tourist attractions. U.S. Route 321 (known as Wears Valley Road in Pigeon Forge)
connects the town with Wears Valley and Townsend to the west. Upper Middle Creek
Road (a section of which is called Dollywood Lane) connects Pigeon Forge with
Dollywood and the rural areas of eastern Sevier County.
Sevierville is
a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States.
In the town's eastern section, the Little Pigeon River is formed by the confluence
of its East Fork and Middle Fork, both of which flow down from their sources high
in the Great Smoky Mountains. Five miles downstream to the west, the Little Pigeon
absorbs its West Fork before turning north and flowing for another five miles
to its mouth along the French Broad River. Sevierville is centered around the
stretch of land between these two junctions of the East and Middle Fork and the
West Fork, known traditionally as Forks-of-the-Pigeon or Forks-of-the-River. Sevierville
is situated in an area where the Foothills of the Great Smokies give way to the
Tennessee Valley, and thus the town has long acted as a nexus between Knoxville
to the north and the Appalachian towns in the mountains to the south. The Great
Smoky Mountains National Park is located approximately 10 miles south of Sevierville.
The confluence of the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River (left) and the Little
Pigeon River (right)Due to its hilly terrain and the relatively poor roads of
19th-century Sevier County, a number of smaller communities developed independently
along the outskirts of Sevierville. These include Harrisburg and Fair Garden to
the east and Catlettsburg and Boyd's Creek to the north. In addition, the United
States Postal Service associates the name "Sevierville" with ZIP codes
for much of Sevier County, including the town of Pittman Center and other geographically
extensive areas located outside Sevierville's city limits.
The Little Pigeon River is a river located entirely within Sevier County, Tennessee.
It rises from a series of streams which flow together on the dividing ridge between the states of Tennessee and North Carolina inside the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The river is subdivided with three separate tributaries: East, Middle, and West. The East and Middle prongs are less notable divisions of the river, with the East Prong paralleled for most of its length by State Route 416, and the Middle Prong emerging from the Greenbrier area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The West Prong is far better known because it drains the major tourist towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. The confluence of the two forks is at Sevierville. From there the stream continues to flow northward, paralleled by State Route 66, until its confluence with the French Broad River just downstream from Douglas Dam.
Despite its name, it is not a tributary of the nearby Pigeon River, which flows into the French Broad well above Douglas Dam and the resultant reservoir.
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