Lights go up and snow comes down for Gatlinburg’s Winter Magic Winterfest Celebration. Like the MountainFest before it, Gatlinburg TN enhances every winter season with characters and entertaining performances throughout the city in addition to their award-winning lights and festive decorations.

Plan your winter vacation getaway with ‘cool’ lodging and special discount coupons, or hold your winter wedding in the Smokies during these local wintertime events.

Gatlinburg Winter Magic is a winter wonderland for all ages. Playful teddy bear light displays throughout the city delight the youngsters while the city’s guided trolley tour lights will entertain the entire family.

Fall

November 24 – 28, 2009
Arts, Entertainment

Dozens upon dozens of ornately decorated Christmas trees await visitors to this Winter Wonderland at W. L. Mills Conference Center Tuesday through Saturday from 4 – 7pm, sponsored this year by Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries. 

Summer

June 12 – August 8, 2009
Arts, Entertainment, History

Back by popular demand, Gatlinburg’s 4th annual presentation of Smoky Mountain Tunes & Tales™ begins in downtown Gatlinburg on June 12, 2009 and will run through August 8. Tunes & Tales is a summer-long street performance event featuring costumed musical performers, storytellers and artisans portraying time periods as far back as 1800.

Summer

July 17 – 26 , 2009
Arts, Entertainment

More than 200 booths featuring some of the nation’s finest work. Artisans on hand to demonstrate their skills, answer questions, and offer their unique art for sale. Live bluegrass and country music.

GATLINBURG (Tenn.) – Tourists and East Tennesseans have turned a decades old Gatlinburg exhibit into a memorial for the “King of Pop.”

The Guinness Book of World Records Museums featured an exhibit on Michael Jackson since the 1980s, but the museum’s brought the life-like replica of the pop icon out front and center.

The crowds noticed.

“It looks just like him! Just like he’s gonna bust a move,” tourist Rhonda Faisea said.

“He’s not as tall as I thought he was,” tourist Tammi Hayes said.

Since Jackson’s death on Thursday, the museum workers say they’ve received so many inquires about it’s wax copy of Jackson, that they moved the exhibit into the lobby; so, any fan can see it for free.

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