Looks like we have seen the last of empty gas pumps and high gas prices in the Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Sevierville Tennessee Smoky Mountains because the lines at gas stations are gone and the prices are now below the national average - all just in time for the 2008 peak leaf season which is just about to begin!
Now that gas prices are lower again and availability is good everyone is breathing a sigh of relief.
Hurricane Ike didn't hit the Smoky Mountains, but gas shortages and gas gouging did. The gas problems in the Smoky Mountains first turned up in North Carolina and then spread to Tennessee, but while North Carolina is still having problems with inflated gas prices, gas shortages and long lines, everything is just about back to normal in the Tennessee Smokies.
We suggest that people who have to drive into or through the North Carolina Smokies fill up before they get there as they can save quite a bit of time and as much as 50 cents or more a gallon.
Officials and energy experts say that everything will be back to normal in Tennessee by the peak leaf season which starts in less than 2 weeks and by the end of October in N Carolina.
3 comments:
Hi, I am curious about gas prices and availability now? Any updates? I am traveling to Cades Cove next week and camping for a few days. Here in the foothills of NC we are still enduring gas shortages. I am hoping that getting gas in Townsend of Pigeon Forge will not have to be one of my worries while on the trip.
Thanks!
some stations in the area here in TN still only have regular unleaded and not super or mid grade - fine by me.
BP in Townsend has had gas every time I have been there (about once a week).
You also have 2 more stations in Townsend and 2 more in Wears Valley so you should be OK.
Sounds great, thanks for the reply! Usually that BP in Townsend is where we stop. Also helps that the IGA is right there because we always end up forgetting something!
-Joey
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