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Great Smoky Mountain Visitor Centers

City: Gatlinburg, TN
Region: East Tennessee
Subregion: Smoky Mountains

Begin your exploration of the park at a visitor center. Here you can pick up a park map or newspaper, have your questions answered by a ranger, and purchase books and guides to the park.

Visitor centers are located within the national park at Cades Cove, Sugarlands and Clingmans Dome. In addition, four information centers are located outside the park in the communities of Gatlinburg, Sevierville and Townsend.

Two historic grist mills are open seasonally in the park. Both provide demonstrations of corn meal milling.

Cades Cove Visitor Center
Inside the park near the mid-point of the 11-mile, one-way Cades Cove Loop Road.

Sugarlands Visitor Center
Inside the park, 2 miles south of Gatlinburg on US-441.

Clingmans Dome Visitor Contact Station
At the Clingmans Dome trailhead, 7 miles off US-441 on the Clingmans Dome Road.

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