Cades Cove
We want to bicycle around Cades Cove on a Wednesday morning when we visit in September. I can't remember if the road is paved or gravel. The answer will dictate which bikes we take along. Thanks. Joyce
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- The road around the cove and campground are paved. However, the two cross roads along with Parson road are gravel as are most of the pull-overs.
While it may be nicer without the traffic, plan on biking on other days too. There are plenty of places to move over for traffic, traffic moves slow, and there are lots of breaks in the traffic created by the slower than average driver. - Nice ride. Last time we were there we did the night walk too.
- We will be there the first weekend in October. Woohoo
- They put down fresh pavement just a year or two ago. Nice and smooth now. We rode our bikes around twice (Wed and Sat) last time we were there. We get there at about 7am and are back by 10am. usually they are just getting ready to release the cars to the road when we are pulling back into the parking lot. Its a nice ride and at 7am it feels good.
- We were there last July, 2012 and biked the whole route, very nicely paved except the crossroads. We left the campground early and stopped and had a picnic lunch under one of the trees in the field. GREAT experience, you will love it.
