We have gone to PF for the past 6 years for Thanksgiving. We stay at Pine Mtn RV Park, which is at traffic light #6. We DO NOT get on the parkway unless we absolutely have to until after 7 pm.
Get a map so you can use the back roads to get around.
Thanksgiving is not as busy as the fall during the "leafing" season, but there are plenty of people and you can spend several hours sitting in traffic trying to get from one end to the other.
The lights are beautiful and there is a trolley that traverses through the area each evening just to see the lights. It fills up fast, so make reservations early if you want to do that.
You run into Black Friday traffic in/around the outlet malls and it is pretty awful. You CAN get around if you do a little bit of research and have a local map.
We are still trying to decide if we are going back this year....once you've seen it all, it gets kinda boring. We may head further south toward the Gulf.
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