🐻 Great Smoky Mountains · printable plan
Glenstone Lodge and the park roads
By TopVacay @topvacay. Inspired by TopVacay curator. Prices last checked 2026-10-27. Totals are estimates: $2,541 for 4 travelers.
Recomputed from the price lines stored on each trip. No live hotel, ticket, or airfare feed is connected.
Day by day
Day 1
Knoxville to Gatlinburg is about an hour. Pancakes, then an early night. The parkway is the traffic.
- Evening · Pancake Pantry breakfast
- Overnight · Glenstone Lodge
Day 2
Cades Cove early. If the loop is stopped, that is the day, and it is still a good one.
- Morning · Cades Cove loop
- Evening · Pancake Pantry breakfast
- Overnight · Glenstone Lodge
Day 3
Roaring Fork when the road is open. It is one-way and it is not a hike.
- Morning · Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail
- Overnight · Glenstone Lodge
Day 4
Checkout toward Knoxville. Sunday afternoon traffic on the parkway is the thing to miss.
- Open day.
Packing
- Trail shoes and a layerThe walks are outside, and the morning is cooler than the afternoon.
- More water than you thinkThese days are away from a store.
Reserve ahead
- American 1785day 1 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Delta 1035day 4 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Pancake Pantry breakfastday 1 once you set dates · Popular tables go early. Book the seating, then build the rest of the day around it.
- Glenstone Lodgeday 1 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Pancake Pantry breakfastday 2 once you set dates · Popular tables go early. Book the seating, then build the rest of the day around it.
- Glenstone Lodgeday 2 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Glenstone Lodgeday 3 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.