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A few years ago, this town of fewer than 4,000 people in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains was a sleepy farming community with a couple of stop lights. These days, Pigeon Forge and the equally tiny town of Gatlinburg, just five miles away, are each overrun by as many as 100,000 people on a summer's day -- a total of 10 million visitors each each and every year. Pigeon Forge attractions are many and diverse. What's drawing the crowds to this remote corner of eastern Tennessee, 35 miles from Knoxville? One of the most well-known Pigeon Forge Tennessee attractions is Dollywood, Dolly Parton's flower-laden theme park. Other attractions include more than 200 stores in six outlet malls here and about 400 specialty stores in Gatlinburg. Of course there are the Great Smoky Mountains, so Nature is just one allure of many -- and not always the most popular one. As with other small towns that have hit it big as tourist destinations -- from Ashland, Ore., on the West Coast to Myrtle Beach, S.C., on the East Coast, Pigeon Forge Tennessee has plenty of new jobs and a new identity. But as many other boom towns have also found, explosive growth has not been an unalloyed blessing here and in the surrounding Sevier County. Tree-lined country roads have given way to a seemingly endless array of souvenir shops, miniature golf courses, restaurants, bungee jumps and other Pigeon Forge attractions that stretch for miles along U.S. 441, the traffic-clogged corridor that cuts through the heart of both Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg Tennessee. Pigeon Forge Tennessee and other similarly placed communities around the country -- continues to pursue tourists and their dollars with single-minded devotion. That makes them, other than the country music mecca of Nashville, the most heavily visited tourist destinations in the state, outpulling even the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which attracts nine million tourists a year. Below you find only a few Pigeon Forge Tennessee attractions that bring these millions in each year.
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