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Townsend is a city in Blount County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The population was 244 at the 2000 census and 448 at the 2010 census. For thousands of years a site of Native American occupation by varying cultures, Townsend is one of three gateways to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It has several museums and attractions relating to the natural and human history of the Great Smokies. Identifying as The Peaceful Side of the Smokies, Townsend has the least traffic of the three main entrances to the national park. The park's other two entrances— one just south of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the other just north of Cherokee, No...
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  • 1. Tuckaleechee Caverns Townsend
    Tuckaleechee Caverns is a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Townsend, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. The caverns were discovered in the mid-19th century and were opened to the public by Bill Vananda and Harry Myers in 1953. The caverns are known for the Big Room, an immense cave/cavern room with many stalagmites reaching 24 feet tall with flow-stone formations hundreds of feet in length and width. Tuckaleechee Caverns also has a large underground waterfall named Silver Falls, a 210-foot two-tier waterfall. The cavern originates at White Oak Sinks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Caverns also host a seismograph system monitored by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Geological Survey .
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  • 2. Smoky Mountain River Rat Tubing Townsend
    The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains, and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province. The range is sometimes called the Smoky Mountains and the name is commonly shortened to the Smokies. The Great Smokies are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which protects most of the range. The park was established in 1934, and, with over 11 million visits per year, it is the most visited national park in the United States.The Great Smokies are part of an International Biosphere Reserve. The range is home to an estimated 187,000 acres of old growth forest, constituting the largest such stand east of the Mississippi River....
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  • 4. Foothills Parkway Southwest Parking Townsend
    The Foothills Parkway is a national parkway which partly traverses the foothills of the northern Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. If completed, the 71-mile parkway will connect U.S. Route 129 along the Little Tennessee River in the west with Interstate 40 along the Pigeon River in the east. Current and future portions pass through parts of Blount, Sevier, and Cocke counties. Large sections cross a series of high ridges running roughly parallel to the Tennessee boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and offer unobstructed views of the Great Smokies to the south and the Tennessee Valley to the north. The oldest unfinished highway project in Tennessee, the Foothills Parkway project has been continuously stalled by funding diffic...
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  • 7. The Townsend Wye Townsend
    The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 11 in the United States: K10OA-D in Terrace Lakes, Idaho K11AT-D in Gunnison, Colorado K11BD-D in Leadore, Idaho K11BI-D in Entiat, Washington K11BM-D in Methow, Washington K11BX-D in Sutherlin, Oregon K11CN-D in Caliente, Nevada K11CP-D in Fish Creek, Idaho K11CQ-D in Cedar City, Utah K11CS-D in Rock Island, Washington K11DL-D in Juliaetta, Idaho K11ED-D in Ruth, Nevada K11EE-D in Ely & McGill, Nevada K11EV-D in Grants, etc., New Mexico K11EZ-D in Cashmere, Washington K11FF-D in Superior, Montana K11FJ-D in Squilchuck St. Park, Washington K11FQ-D in Thompson Falls, Montana K11GH-D in Tri Cities, etc., Oregon K11GT-D in Eugene, Oregon K11GX-D in Whitewater, Montana K11HM-D in Bonners Ferry, Idaho K11HO-D in Polson, Montana K11I...
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