After days of hiking and seeing less than 5 other people, Katz and Bryson are relieved for any type of civiliazation, even if it is Galtinburg Tennessee. The town had been talked about in a book called "The Lost Continent". That gives you a pretty good indictation of the type of town Gatlinburg was. Now it is filled with mini-malls and overpriced burger joints. The town feeds on the touristst that come through the town. (I don't understand who would want to be a tourist in the town unless you were hiking that Appilachian Trail.) It is strange to think that in our modern times there are these small times that have been forgotten so now they sell themselves to the tourists to make the town ugly and fakely industrial.
Gatlinburg Attractions
http://www.gatlinburg.com/things-to-do/attractions/
Where is this town? It sounds a lot like some of the little "tourist" towns I saw in Alaska. Things are very different in different areas of the country.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It is sad that this town has changed. I wonder how the people in that twon feel about the industrialization it went through.
ReplyDelete