![]() ![]() The road comes to an abrupt end after about eight miles, just outside a quarter mile tunnel, in the park. ![]() This was primarily so those displaced to go back to family cemeteries and ancestral lands. Part of the agreement with those displaced was to build a road from Bryson City along a route north of the river in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The people who lived there were either bought out or moved out. The dam created Fontana Lake, which flooded thousands of acres of land on the north side of the river, including homes, communities and villages. The dam, the tallest dam in the eastern U.S., helped provide much needed electricity to the region. Fontana Dam was built in 1941 by the Tennessee Valley Authority along the Little Tennessee River. The story behind it is interesting, and it’s also expensive. ![]() The Road to Nowhere literally ends up nowhere. After driving around and visiting the town, we headed out toward the park and the Road to Nowhere. Bryson City is at the edge of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, and is not quite so crowded with tourists. After a night at the Billy Graham Training Center for a concert by the excellent Annie Moses Band, we headed further west past Asheville to Bryson City. We finally got away to the mountains last weekend. If you had asked where Terri and I were late Monday afternoon, I would have simply said, “Nowhere.” Actually, we were on the Road to Nowhere, and it’s a real road. ![]()
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