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I think our normal vacation of spending a week in a cabin on a lake in the rockies, seeing maybe a dozen people total, ruined our definition of "going on vacation in the mountains."

-=edit=- to clarify... Gatlinburg, pigeon forge, sevierville... it's a 12-mile-long clusterfuck of carnival sideshows and metal-fatigue "hillbilly rollercoasters" and ripleys-branded shit museums and a 24/7 traffic jams of trustfund kids in their shiny riceburning carollas with popcorn popper mufflers.

Literally any where else in the country would be quieter, more relaxing, more stress-free.

I don't understand why people would go back.

I think our normal vacation of spending a week in a cabin on a lake in the rockies, seeing maybe a dozen people total, ruined our definition of "going on vacation in the mountains." -=edit=- to clarify... Gatlinburg, pigeon forge, sevierville... it's a 12-mile-long clusterfuck of carnival sideshows and metal-fatigue "hillbilly rollercoasters" and ripleys-branded shit museums and a 24/7 traffic jams of trustfund kids in their shiny riceburning carollas with popcorn popper mufflers. Literally any where else in the country would be quieter, more relaxing, more stress-free. I don't understand why people would go back.

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When i was a kid we went to pigeon forge, stayed in a cabin, it was alright but it really is a weirdly incoherent tourist trap.

A more relaxing mountain vacation I had around that time was to Cherokee NC, I went before the whole place was renovated so it looked like it did back in the 70s and the roads were shit but now its got a shiny new coat of paint and better roads. There's a park with rides up the mountain and some cherokee cultural shows but mostly it's a nice little mountain town with good food and a few interesting shops and activities. There was a pub with some great fried foods and deck built into the gorge of the waterway that was just beautiful, don't know how it looks now though.

It's a good weekend trip location and I think they have a casino if that's up your alley.