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Gatlinburg

American  
[gat-luhn-burg] / ˈgæt lənˌbɜrg /

noun

  1. a town in eastern Tennessee: mountain resort bordering on Great Smoky Mountains National Park.


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The Gatlinburg, Tenn., company offers special viewing tours and backpacking trips in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

More recently, fires devastated Gatlinburg, Tenn., in 2016, the towns of Superior and Louisville in Colorado in 2021 and Lahaina, Hawaii, two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

The study points to examples like the 2016 Gatlinburg fire in Tennessee, which, although less than a tenth of the size of the Camp Fire, destroyed nearly 2,500 structures and killed 14 people.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2024

As in Maui, the landscape around Gatlinburg had dried rapidly in what scientists call a flash drought, which was caused by a combination of heat, low humidity and high winds.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2023

Just up the road from Gatlinburg is the town of Pigeon Forge, which twenty years ago was a sleepy hamlet—nay, which aspired to be a sleepy hamlet—famous only as the hometown of Dolly Parton.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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