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Great Smoky Mountains: Self-Guided Audio Driving Tour
Features
- Free cancellation available
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
Overview
- Explore the Smokies with a flexible and fully-automatic road trip audio tour
- Learn about historic cabins and mills in Cades Cove
- Drive Newfound Gap Road and the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
- Watch for bears, elk, salamanders and fireflies as you explore at your own pace
Activity location
- Gatlinburg
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Start in Gatlinburg, Cherokee or Townsend (or join anywhere along the route). ***You must redeem your voucher code and download the GuideAlong app & tour (different from Get Your Guide) before you leave signal.
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
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Great Smoky Mountains: Self-Guided Audio Driving Tour
What's included, what's not
- A link to download the GuideAlong (previously GyPSy Guide) app and voucher code to activate your audio tour.
- Great Smoky Mountains audio driving tour: 180+ audio points with stories, tips and directions that autoplay in English, based on your location.
- Flexible tours: Follow the suggested itineraries, or create your own along the tour route.
- Easy to use: Download and go. You’ll hear the best stories and tips, at just the right time.
- One time purchase: No expiry or date/time limit with free updates. One purchase for each vehicle.
- Tour offline: Pre-download content for offline use. Tours use GPS satellites to determine location, not cell signal or wifi.
- Free trip planner PDF: 35 pages on the best hikes, wildlife, awesome experiences, top travel tips and more.
- Support: Refer to the detailed help menu in the app, or contact support by email, chat or toll free phone.
- Entry Fees, National Park Passes, Reservations
- Transportation, Parking fees.
What you can expect
Don’t miss a thing as your favorite audio tour narrator guides you throughout the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to not-to-be-missed viewpoints, along with fascinating stories, tips and directions. Follow the suggested itineraries, or divide the commentary and create your own half, full or multi day sightseeing trips.
Enjoy the many historic log buildings, wide range of wildlife in diverse ecosystems, extensive hiking trails, and stunning viewpoints from scenic drives and mountain peaks.
Major Highlights:
Alum Cave
Cable Mill
Cades Cove
Chimney Tops
Clingmans Dome
Gatlinburg
Grotto Falls
John Oliver Place
Laurel Falls
Mingus Mill
Morton Tunnel
Newfound Gap
Oconaluftee Farm Museum
The Sinks
Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
Sugarlands
Marvel at the 17,000 species of abundant wildlife from tiny fireflies to colorful and giant salamanders. Witness over 240 species of birds, including woodpeckers, owls and warblers, elk, deer, foxes, bobcats black bears.
Explore Cades Cove with its collection of historic homesteads, preserved buildings like Cable Grist Mill and churches. Pause in this scenic valley which is also one of the best and most reliable areas to see wildlife.
Witness blue fog rising from the valleys at Newfound Gap and discover the reason why the range is called the Smoky Mountains. Continue on climbing the spur road to Clingmans Dome, the highest peak in Tennessee before taking a trip to the flying saucer-style viewing platform.
Traverse the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. Discover a landscape of lush hardwood forest, numerous waterfalls including Rainbow Falls and the Place of a Thousand Drips, as well as historic cabins like Noah “Bud” Ogle’s, grist mills, and other preserved buildings.
Location
Activity location
- Gatlinburg
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Start in Gatlinburg, Cherokee or Townsend (or join anywhere along the route). ***You must redeem your voucher code and download the GuideAlong app & tour (different from Get Your Guide) before you leave signal.
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States