Cades Cove, Tennessee

We went across the Smokey Mountains and down almost to Gatlinburg, to a rather large valley known as Cades Cove.  It was discovered and settled in the early 1800's .... maximum population at that time approx. 700, scattered over several miles of the most beautiful setting:  blue ridge mountains, ringing a broad, gently rolling green valley.  Many of the buildings have been preserved: log homes, barns, churches, grist mill, etc.  It can be visited by a single lane road winding around the edge of the valley... takes about 2 hours, depending on how many stops you make.  A real utopian place.  Now it is a park, no one lives even near there, since it is a part of the Smokey Mountain Nat'l. Park.