That first trip of mine was in '84 or '85...maybe as late as '86....Gatlinburg was the biggest thing in the area then....Pigeon Forge had some cheap hotels & Dollywood and not much else...Sevierville had NOTHING! It was beautiful.
Well, the mountains are still beautiful, but the rest, not so much. I think the casino in Cherokee was the beginning of the end....
Here's a question for ya...is it pronounced seVEER or SEEver....we kept asking and getting different answers while we were there.