Gatlinburg RV Parking?

[kginder]

We plan on visiting Dolly for Christmas. Been there a zillion times, however, we always had a trailer and a TV. We now have a Class C 32 foot Jayco Greyhawk and I don't plan on towing a toad or renting a car. Normally when we run up to Gatlinburg we park in that deck behind the aquarium.

Does anyone know where we might be able to park the monster while we run around the town for a few hours?

Thanks.

[crawford]

You do know that dollywood has a special parking lot for RV's there for the day, if you get the gold pass it's free and if you go a couple of time's it pays for itself. that also goes for it season passes you go a couple of times it will pay for itself something to thing about of course it won't help with parking I think parking a RV is about 20.00 dollars for day.

[kginder]

Just wanted to follow up with y'all. We tried NOT using the trolley and using the trolley.
First, if you're going into Dollywood and have the gold season pass, take your RV. You can park in section B while the rest of the universe is being forced to park at Splash Country. It was great and it gives you a place to take a break when you get "Dollyed" out. However, if you don't want to unhook there are MANY trolleys that drop you right off at the entrance to Dollywood.

We did drive around with our Class C to Wallyworld, Olive Garden, Coleman outlet, Kroger's and a few other places and other than sitting in traffic it wasn't too bad. However we tried to go to a couple of restaurants on the south parkway and there was absolutely NO place to park the rig and we gave up.
So we gave the south parkway trolley a try. It picked us up right at the Pine Mountain resort. It takes quite awhile to get to the "hub" at Patriot Park because there are a lot of stops. The return trip was 5 minutes. The pottery restaurant is at the park along with the Old Mill. Both are good, BTW. We got off and took the trolley to the Gatlinburg welcome station. A short easy ride. We did notice, as mentioned before, that there was PLENTY of big rig parking at the welcome center, so driving and parking the Class C would not have been an issue. Got off and took the purple Gatlinburg trolley to the aquarium. Long wait in traffic otherwise it would have been a short ride.
Very, very easy to get trolleys for the return trip.
So, in conclusion, I would say I'm very impressed with the trolley system and I would recommend it if you don't have a car and are not going to Dollywood.
Thanks again everyone for the suggestions! Us Yankees do like that area a lot and always have a good time when we visit.

[Merrykalia]

Yes. The South Parkway trolley runs into MainStay Suites, which is across a little country road from Pine Mtn RV Park. The owners of Mainstay Suites are the same owners of PM RV Park. It is about 25 yards from the RV Park entrance and takes about 30 seconds to get there.

[kginder]

Thank you much for the links. Does anyone know if the "brown" south route goes all the way out to the Pine Mountain RV Park? That's where we're staying. Heck if goes there we might as well use it for all transportation to Dollywood, restaurants etc.

[Helmsey]

Here are the links to the trolley routes for Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg:
Pigeon Forge: Clicky
Gatlinburg: Clicky

[Happy_Camper200]

The trolley you're referring to will drop you off at the Gatlinburg Aquarium. On the way back to the visitors center you probably won't go straight back to the parking lot. He usually makes several stops on the way back...at least he did with us.

[Helmsey]

What CG will you be staying in? There are some that the trolley comes to (or near) the CG and you can get on there and won't have to move your camper.

[kginder]

Sounds like a plan. Thank you much!

[Merrykalia]

Yes, the one between the two. I was going to make this suggestion, also. The trolleys are easy to get on/off at the different areas of town and at a pretty low cost.

[kginder]

You guys talking about the visitors center that's about halfway between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg? There are multiple Gatlinburg visitor's centers listed on google maps.

[trailertraveler]

rv2go wrote:
Have you thought of parking at the Visitors Center and taking the Trolley to town?

X2, we did this with the long bed crew cab. Much easier than fighting the downtown traffic and tight parking spaces. When we were there last Spring the parking was free and so was one of the trolley routes.

[rv2go]

Have you thought of parking at the Visitors Center and taking the Trolley to town?

[brirene]

I do recall a lot over towards Bennett's bbq, or a street or two over that would fit. Also some on the south side. I'm sure there must be others as well. I'm sure you can forget street parking, especially at that time.