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Cataloochee Cove Review
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Cataloochee Cove 
- Address: Cataloochee Community, via U.S. 276 near Maggie Valley, off Exit 20 of I-40, to Cove Creek Rd., Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NC | Map It
- Phone: 865/436-1200 for general park information
- Category: Museum Village
- Location: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Fodor's Review:
One of the most memorable, and eeriest, sites in all of the Smokies is Cataloochee Cove. At one time Cataloochee was a community of more than 1,200 people, in some 200 buildings. After the land was taken over in 1934 for the national park, the community dispersed. Although many of the original buildings are now gone, about a dozen houses, cabins, and barns, two churches, and other structures have been kept up. You can visit the Palmer Methodist Chapel, a one-room schoolhouse, Beach Grove School, and the Woody and Messer homesteads. It's much like Cades Cove on the Tennessee side, but much less visited. On a quiet day, you can almost hear the ghosts of the former Cataloochee settlers. Elk have been reintroduced around Cataloochee, and despite some losses the population now is approaching 60. This is the first time in 150 years that the Smokies have had an elk population. You can often see them from the road in the evening and early morning. Cataloochee is the most remote part of the Smokies reachable by car, via a narrow, winding, gravel road.
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