Cades Cove loop to be closed for three months next spring
GSMNP–Those thumps you heard earlier were tourism folks fainting dead away at the news that the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close its wildly popular Cades Cove loop for three months in the spring for repaving and sprucing up.
An excerpt from the Knoxville News Sentinel:
The park examined a “full range of options” to do the work, according to Superintendent Dale Ditmanson.
All would have required unsuitable detours for the 3,000 to 4,000 vehicles that enter the cove each day, Ditmanson said.
Night-time work also was considered, but the road would have had to be closed for the rebuilding of the sub-base.
The park chose to close the road and recycle it in place as the most efficient and “environmentally responsible” way to complete the work, Ditmanson said.
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