TundraTower wrote:
PS - 411 is not all that bad. You can avoid going thru Gatlinburg by turning left onto 321 at the Sugarlands Visitor Center just after you come down the mountain and before you enter Gatlinburg. That is the backway into Townsend and rarely heavy with traffic except the fall.
I am trying to figure out what you are smoking! :h If you take 411 into Maryville and get on 321 to Townsend it turns left and goes across Wears Valley into PF. Not Sugarland or Gatlinburg.
Op just wants Townsend so really PF and Gatlinburg doesn't even matter.