Cherokee Travel Blogs

After driving and viewing the Newfound Gap area, we headed back southeast toward Cherokee, NC.  Between Oconaluftee Visitor Center (the southerly main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park) and Cherokee, NC is the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Blue Ridge Parkway is 46…

I am heading back up to North Carolina to visit my mom for a late Mothers Day. We will be attending Speed Street in downtown Charlotte as well as driving up to Cherokee to spend a night at the Harrahs Casino.

Hence the name-Cherokee North Carolina.  Cherokee is home to a very old Indian reservation of the Eastern band of the Cherokee Indians. It too is surrounded by the Great Smokey Mountains so there are tons of campgrounds and lots of opportunities for hiking, fishing, and other great outdoors ac…

Visiting for Christmas 2008

In an effort to escape the 100 degree temps in Beech Island (neither a beach nor an island, by the way) I headed to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tourist numbers really soar this time of year, but it did little to dampen my enjoyment of this outing. The park is truly a national treasure. From dipping my toes in the wicked cool water of a mountain stream to taking in the breathtaking views from Clingman's Dome, it was a day to remember!

Sharks in picture are closer then they appear!God keeps his eye on you!I got bit by a bear in the Great Smoky Mountains and have the scar to prove it! PS: Can anyone tell me what kind of shark this is???

My family and I love to vacation in Cherokee!  The scenery is absolutely breath-taking and neighboring Maggy Valley is just as beautiful.  The Cherokee KOA offers a choice of camping or cabins in a valley surrounded by trees with a small river flowing right next to the campground.&nb…

DAY 11 (7/5/08)6:30pm / 80 / HUMID and HOTToday was our last full day in the Smoky Mountains. We got in the car and drove to Clingman's Dome, one of the renowned look-out points within the park. It was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1960's and is still the same today. It w…

Over a hundred years ago, the Cherokee Indians who left the Cherokee nation boundaries, bought land from US landowners and became US citizens, making them exempt from the uprooting during the Trail of Tears. That land is now the Qualla boundary and where the eastern band of Cherokee call their home…

Hey everyone here are few photos of my vacation in Tennessee and North Carolina

Spent some time at Cherokee, N.C. This is one of those places you can spend a week at, but it was just a place I was passing through. Ate some Ice Cream, listened to one of the storytellers, then went to Harrah's Casino. Beautiful country, and strangely I've been through here three times in the las…