Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Last summer, Dolly Parton along with Dollywood officials hosted a BIG event at the theme park to release details about Dollywood’s newest ride, the Big Bear Mountain roller coaster.
📍 RECOMMENDED PLACES TO VISIT
00:07 - The Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee/North Carolina, USA: go.stay22.com/LXu80kxlFV
00:10 - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA: go.stay22.com/XIUiJ3WHx7
The highly anticipated project is the largest single attraction investment in the park’s history. And, it is now open to the public.
It’s part of the $500 million expansion plan that was first announced in 2021. In total, this investment is set to include four new resorts, a campground and this record-breaking new attraction. The coaster itself was a $25 million project.
FULL ARTICLE:
thesmokies.com/big-bear-mountain-dollywood
#DollyParton #Dollywood #ThemeParks #rollercoaster #pov
Last summer, Dolly Parton along with Dollywood officials hosted a BIG event at the theme park to release details about Dollywood’s newest ride, the Big Bear Mountain roller coaster.
📍 RECOMMENDED PLACES TO VISIT
00:07 - The Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee/North Carolina, USA: go.stay22.com/LXu80kxlFV
00:10 - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA: go.stay22.com/XIUiJ3WHx7
The highly anticipated project is the largest single attraction investment in the park’s history. And, it is now open to the public.
It’s part of the $500 million expansion plan that was first announced in 2021. In total, this investment is set to include four new resorts, a campground and this record-breaking new attraction. The coaster itself was a $25 million project.
FULL ARTICLE:
thesmokies.com/big-bear-mountain-dollywood
#DollyParton #Dollywood #ThemeParks #rollercoaster #pov
![Footage offers an up-close look at the massive wildfire in Wears Valley, TN [2022] (Tom Lucas/WCVFD)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vM_9KJPqPK4/mqdefault.jpg "Footage offers an up-close look at the massive wildfire in Wears Valley, TN [2022] (Tom Lucas/WCVFD)
On Wednesday morning, March 30, 2022, officials with the Sevier County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) reported a fire near Hatcher Mountain Road and Indigo Lane in the Wears Valley community.
What started out as a brushfire was quickly upgraded to a forest fire after multiple structure fires were reported in the area.
By 9 pm, The Tennessee Department of Agriculture reported that the Wears Valley fire, which is named the Hatcher Mountain Road/Indigo Lane Fire, had grown to encompass 1,000 acres and was 0% contained.
This video was shot in the Waldens Ridge area of Waldens Creek overnight by local firefighter Tom Lucas. Lucas works for the Sevierville Fire Department but was volunteering for the Waldens Creek Volunteer Fire Department last night when he captured the footage.
Evacuations were ordered for the affected areas. And those evacuation areas grew overnight as crews continued to battle flames.
Lucas credits early evacuation notices for saving lives and preventing people from being caught off guard.
By morning, officials on the ground were reporting that weather conditions had somewhat improved giving crews a much-needed assist.
Rising humidity and rain calmed the fire and lowered the heat early this morning. Winds also calmed a bit.
During a press conference this morning around 10 am, Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters reported that the now 3,700-acre fire was 5% contained.
There have been no fatalities and no missing persons. One hundred structures have been affected.
Pigeon Forge Fire Chief Tony Watson says that more hours of work are going to be required before they can declare the fire contained.
#WearsValley #TN #Fires #2022")
