Planning our first trip and looking for suggestions.

[bluegrass_smoke]

We are planning our first big trip in our Bighorn for this June. We live near the Cincinnati area and will start there. We have had small couple day practice trips but nothing 2 weeks or longer. We thought we would work our way up to the longer trips. I hope that is a good way to do things. We are thinking of camping on some of the Blue Ridge Parkway. We are thinking of starting in Gatlinburg and work from there.Any thoughts on different trips or where we should stay or see along the Parkway?

Thanks in advance.

[Veebyes]

Just going by your screen name you might like to take in a few bluegrass festivals. Many are hosted by CGs. Others may require dry camping. Always great fun.

[TomHaycraft]

Not a bad idea, regardless of where you travel, but good intelligence about low clearance bridges and especially on the Blue Ride Parkway, tunnel heights.

Blue Ridge Parkway Tunnel Clearances

[Deleted_per_op]

About the only difference in longer trips vs shorter trips is the amount of food and clothing you need.

Most likely, you won't take two weeks of fresh food with you. Take what you normally do and plan on going to a local grocery store once or twice on the trip.

If you don't have two weeks worth of clothing, take along a small supply of your own laundry soap & dryer sheets and plan on going to a Laundromat in mid-trip. We always have a roll of quarters handy for newspapers, showers & laundry.

[DutchmenSport]

Wow! You could spend an entire summer just in the Gatlinburg area alone! After you've seen Gatlinburg, then get off the beaten path and see how the real world lives. Find the little mom-and-pop restaurants along a back road in the middle of now where, or a shop that sells artifacts from the local artisans, or hike the trails, mountains, swimming, horses, you name it! Google search "Attraction", just in the Gatlinburg area, and you'll have enough hits to keep you occupied for years!

Head on to the Blue Ridge, a new Google Search, and you'll find everything imaginable. Lots of history in that area, pioneers, American Indian heritage, Civil War, you name it!

Campgrounds? You probable will not find a bad one anywhere. That part of the country is just jam packed full of stuff, from amusement parks to historical cemeteries. How about haunted houses, haunted places, haunted tours, oh my. Its all a matter of what you're interested in! The sky is the limit!

Some things to Google Search on are:
Weird Tennessee
Weird Virginia
Road side attractions (name your state)
Road side oddities
(name your city or county or state) and "attractions"
"What to do in ...."

And you'll be blown away.

Limit your search to your interests and this will drive you.

One year, we did a search for Rail Road museums in Indiana. Found out in Indiana there were 7. That 2 week summer vacation, we hit all 7 museums. Traveled from middle Indiana, to the Southern part, back to the top North, west, near Richmond Indiana (Ohio line) and finally back home. It was one awesome trip!

Internet search is your friend!