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Gatlinburg

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[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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In Gatlinburg, Tenn., police in May freed a bear that locked itself in a hotel restroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

The residents of Gatlinburg, Tenn., did not anticipate the firestorm that engulfed them in 2016.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2023

Even the little towns like Franklin and Hiawassee and even Gatlinburg are just way stations scattered helpfully through the great cosmos of woods.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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