Cades Cove

Cades Cove Loop Road
Townsend, TN 37882

Cades Cove is the most visited part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park--and for good Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Cades Cades fawns are at home in the beauty of this green valley. reason. The idyllic setting of Cades Cove is a sampler of everything the Park has to offer the Smokies visitor. Interesting Tennessee cabins, cabin rentals, and other pioneer structures dot this cove and tell the history of its early inhabitants. Wildlife is abundant. More than a dozen hiking and horseback riding trails originate in Cades Cove. The Smoky Mountains, which tower above picturesque Cades Cove, serve as guardians to the Cove's serene beauty; and the splendor of color when Mother Nature empties her paint buckets on the Cove's hardwoods in the Fall is unmatched! Cades Cove is home to trout streams to tease the fly-fishing enthusiast and campgrounds are available for those who want to live in Cades Cove-even if only temporarily. In addition, Smoky Mountain cabin rentals found on this web site gives the opportunity for tourists to hark back to the former inhabitants of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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