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Planning a Family Reunion?
Consider Townsend!
Plenty to do and a lot of space to do it in.
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Come to Townsend to enjoy our many festivals and events during the year. 
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Townsend, Tennessee!
Come enjoy "The Peaceful Side of the Smokies" and The Back Porch of Cades Cove ®

Whichever season you choose, there's always a good adventure to be found in Townsend, Tennessee. You can watch it all come to life. The arts & crafts, hiking, biking, tubing, horseback riding, live music, and annual festivals. Southern Hospitality surrounds you as you eat to your heart's content. You may choose to stay in a cabin, hotel, bed & breakfast, or at a campsite.

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Townsend is in East Tennessee at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is accessible by Interstates 40 & 75. The magnificent Smoky Mountains surrounds Townsend TN. Townsend is located 30 minutes from Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Dollywood.

Distance to Major Cities:

Atlanta - 250 miles
Asheville - 104 miles
Knoxville - 30 miles

Memphis - 401 miles
Chattanooga - 146 miles
Nashville - 195 miles

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Neighboring Attractions
Only 30 minutes from: Dollywood & Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville
Only 40 minutes from: Knoxville & Oak Ridge
Only 60 minutes from: Lost Sea, Museum of Appalachia & Cherokee, NC

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16th Annual Townsend Heritage Festival
September 26-27, 2008

The Lily Barn
1116 Carr's Creek Road
Townsend, Tennessee 37882
www.lilybarn.com
Day Lilies for sale
No open display of alcohol, please

Heritage Center Concerts begin at 7:00 PM
Friday, July 18 Blue Mother Tupelo
Friday, July 25 Labron Lazenby & LA3
Friday, August 1 Jeff Barbra & Sara Pirkle
Saturday, October 4 Wild Blue Yonder
Saturday, October 11 Jenna & The Joneses

Heritage Center Blue Ribbon Country Fair September 27

Pickin' Porch Concerts (http://www.clemmerdulcimer.com/pickinporch.asp)

Saturday at 7PM until October 25

Passion Play in the Smokies (http://www.passionplayinthesmokies.com/)

Friday and Saturday at 7:30PM (Aug 22 - Oct 25)

Sept. 27-28 Nawger Nob Craft Fair, Nawger Nob, Townsend
(http://www.woodcarvers.com/craftsh.htm)

Foothills Fall Festival (http://foothillsfallfestival.com/FFF_Site08/) October 10-12

The following events are for 2009:

Feb. 5-6 and Feb. 7-8 -- Winter Heritage Festival, Townsend

Feb. 13-15 -- A Townsend Love Affair celebrating Valentine's Day weekend, Townsend Business Association, Townsend

March 14 -- Tremont 40th Anniversary Scavenger Hunt, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, Townsend

April 4 -- Herb and Wildflower Day, Smoky Mountains Convention and
Visitors Bureau, Townsend

Last of April and first of May -- Townsend in the Smokies Spring Festival, Smoky Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau, Townsend Visitors Center

May 2 -- Spring Heritage Festival, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend

May 15-17, Troutfest, Little River Chapter of Trout Unlimited,
Townsend

May 23 and Sept. 5 -- Take a Walk on the River Walk,
Tuckaleechee Garden Club, Townsend

June 6 -- 2nd Annual Pottery Festival,
Smoky Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau, Townsend Visitors Center

June 26-27 and Sept. 25-26 -- Nawger Nob Craft Fair, Nawger Nob, Townsend

July 10 -- An Appalachian Celebration, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center
and Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, music program to benefit
Tremont, Townsend

Sept. 13 -- Experience Your Smokies of Blount County Reunion,
Experience Youth Smokies of Blount, Maryville

Sept. 15, Oct. 13 and Nov. 17 -- Appalachian Lecture Series,
Maryville College, Maryville

Sept. 25-26 -- Fall Heritage Festival and Old Timers Day,
Smoky Mountains Convention and Visitors Bureau, Townsend

Sept. 26 -- 3rd Annual Blue Ribbon Country Fair,
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend

Oct. 15-18 -- Smoky Mountain Writers Conference,
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend

Oct. 16-17 -- Foothills Fall Festival, City of Maryville, Maryville

Oct. 17 -- AAA East Tennessee: Auto Club and
Great Smoky Mountains National Park antique car show, Townsend

Dec. 4-6 -- Smoky Mountain Christmas Memories,
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Townsend

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