Cades Cove in Tennessee
Scenic View of a Smokey Mountain Homeplace
The Cades Cove park in Tennessee is a great place to take a weekend trip to. If you’re a christian with a baptist faith, there are many churches in the area to attend on Sundays. Taking a drive to Cades Cove on a Sunday and going to meeting at one of the baptist churches in the Smokies and then after church making a trip through the scenic park of Cades Cove is a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon in the Great Smokey Mountains.
Cades Cove is a valley in Tennessee that has been adopted into the Great Smokey Mountains that are protected by law today. The residents that were forced out of this area was not happy to leave their land when this area became part of the Smokey Mountains and I can understand why. Who in their right mind would want to leave such a beautiful area of the country and I can understand the people that wanted to remain on their homeland. The courts ruled that the properties must be seized and people that called Cades Cove home would have to leave their land, so that the area could be a part of the Great Smokey Mountains.
The Cherokees use to live in this area and the Indian tribe would hunt in a lot of the present day areas that make up the Cades Cove park. You can still see a lot of wildlife that run freely through the park as visitors drive through the area. It’s not easy getting to Cades Cove and you will travel through a very curvy road to get to the park. I’m not sure how long those curves last for, but it seems like a 15 to 20 mile journey that will lead you through the curviest road ever made in America. For those that have visited the park before, know exactly what I mean and it’s no fun hugging all the curves that run through a very scenic area of Tennessee.
Many of the man-made structures that were built more than 100 years ago are still standing and you can see these when you visit Cades Cove. The Dan Lawson Place that was built by Peter Cable was inherted by Mr. Lawson when he married Cable’s daughter. I really like this area and Mr. Cable couldn’t have picked a better spot in all of the Smokey Mountains as far as I am concerned, to have built this home. Make sure you get a chance to see the Dan Lawson Place up close and personal if you get a chance to see the Great Smokeys anytime soon.
The Great Smokey Mountains are located on the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee. This is a travel destination that millions of people make each year and many of those return sometime in the future, because it is such a great trip to make. If you love the mountains and like to travel, you will be hard-press to find a place better than the Great Smokey Mountains. Make sure you find the area that is called Cades Cove in Tennessee and plan to spend a day there on your trip to the Smokies.