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    • Hike without ever touching the ground

      I found this humorous. Sad too.

      "Developers hope visitors never touch the ground"

      "Visitors to a new $47 million aerial adventure park being built in Gatlinburg should be able to hike, dine, shop and sleep in luxury among the treetops with their feet hardly ever touching the ground.

      Once guests park their cars in Anakeesta's downtown entrance lot, they board a Chondola - a cross between a ski chairlift and a gondola - that carries them to a mountain pinnacle. Instead of earth-bound hotel rooms, guests can stay in posh treehouses equipped with air conditioning for summer, gas fireplaces for winter, full beds, and posh bathrooms. Gondolas carry them to the summit where there's a treetop children's playground.

      "Near the playground, we'll build an outdoor cafe and shops selling local Appalachian arts and crafts that sit on platforms 20 feet above the forest floor," said landscape architect Karen Bentz, a Knoxville native who built a career in Florida before this project. "We want an adventure park that keeps the human guests in the air among the trees so the forest and mountain landscape will be preserved."
      Lost in the right direction.

      The post was edited 1 time, last by Traffic Jam ().

    • TrafficJam wrote:

      I found this humorous. Sad too.

      "Developers hope visitors never touch the ground"

      "Visitors to a new $47 million aerial adventure park being built in Gatlinburg should be able to hike, dine, shop and sleep in luxury among the treetops with their feet hardly ever touching the ground.

      Once guests park their cars in Anakeesta's downtown entrance lot, they board a Chondola - a cross between a ski chairlift and a gondola - that carries them to a mountain pinnacle. Instead of earth-bound hotel rooms, guests can stay in posh treehouses equipped with air conditioning for summer, gas fireplaces for winter, full beds, and posh bathrooms. Gondolas carry them to the summit where there's a treetop children's playground.

      "Near the playground, we'll build an outdoor cafe and shops selling local Appalachian arts and crafts that sit on platforms 20 feet above the forest floor," said landscape architect Karen Bentz, a Knoxville native who built a career in Florida before this project. "We want an adventure park that keeps the human guests in the air among the trees so the forest and mountain landscape will be preserved."
      One more reason not to go to Gatlinburg.
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    • jimmyjam wrote:

      TrafficJam wrote:

      I found this humorous. Sad too.

      "Developers hope visitors never touch the ground"

      "Visitors to a new $47 million aerial adventure park being built in Gatlinburg should be able to hike, dine, shop and sleep in luxury among the treetops with their feet hardly ever touching the ground.

      Once guests park their cars in Anakeesta's downtown entrance lot, they board a Chondola - a cross between a ski chairlift and a gondola - that carries them to a mountain pinnacle. Instead of earth-bound hotel rooms, guests can stay in posh treehouses equipped with air conditioning for summer, gas fireplaces for winter, full beds, and posh bathrooms. Gondolas carry them to the summit where there's a treetop children's playground.

      "Near the playground, we'll build an outdoor cafe and shops selling local Appalachian arts and crafts that sit on platforms 20 feet above the forest floor," said landscape architect Karen Bentz, a Knoxville native who built a career in Florida before this project. "We want an adventure park that keeps the human guests in the air among the trees so the forest and mountain landscape will be preserved."
      One more reason not to go to Gatlinburg.
      Gatlinburg is a lovely town during the winter
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