At Big Meadow Campground, come spend some quality time with your family at this family ran campground. Landscape is mostly open with marvelous views of the mountains and sunsets. This campground is gated for your security and boast the 2006 "Campground of the Year" award. Being RV travelers themselves, they know what your needs are and are ready to help.The main roads through the campground are gravel.
- Level gravel/concrete sites, concrete patios, picnic tables and fire rings on most.
- A total of 77 full hookup sites with 30 super sites, and 58 pull-throughs.
- A playground, game room, bicycle trails, and river access await the children.
- There is a camp store, pavilion, laundry facility, exercise room and a bath house.
- Free cable TV and WI-FI Internet completes the amenities.
Campground open all year. Pop-ups welcome but no tent sites.
DIRECTIONS:
From exit 407 travel south on HWY 66 and connect to 441. Once in Pigeon Forge you will turn right at stop light #3 which is Wears Valley Road - HWY 321. Follow for 15 miles. Turn right unto Cedar Creek Road before the bridge and campground will be on your right. Or, if coming from the west side of the state it would be easier to route coming through Maryville, HWY 321, or coming from the north - HWY 129 from Knoxville. Then you would turn left at stop light for 321 and take the next left once over the bridge onto Cedar Creek Road, campground on right. Easy access for big RV/Motorhomes.
Big Meadows Campground is in Townsend and close to Cades Cove. There are craft malls, shopping, river tubing, horseback riding, grocery store, and some restaurants nearby.
Townsend got its name from Col WB Townsend. He purchased thousands of acres of woodlands (of what is now the Smoky Mountains) and began logging it. The Little River Lumber Company was created and served as the local saw mill. Then later, the Little River Railroad served to haul the lumber using a 70-ton Shay engine. The museum in Townsend still proudly displays the train. Tuckaleechee Caverns, a mile long cave system with 150ft drops is west of town.
The main attraction for this area is of course the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On June 15, 1934, Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside 814 square miles of the Appalachian Mountains. It is the largest and most visited Park in the United States. The highest point is Clingman's Dome at 6,643 feet above sea level.
And the most visited attraction of the Smoky Mountains is Cades Cove which draws thousands of visitors daily. An 11 mile paved road circles inside this geographically isolated one-way loop. The preserved 19th century homesteads, scenic views, open meadows, and abundant wildlife make this area so popular. Hiking trails to Abrams Falls and Gregory Bald, bicycling, and horseback riding are common activities.
The mountains get there name from a natural haze. Hydrocarbons produced by the trees and vast vegetation combined with the high humidity and rainfall produce a bluish/smoky cast. Thus the Great "Smoky" Mountains.
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