Empty Buildings & Beautiful Covered Bridges Near Pigeon Forge - Non Tourist Areas Of Smoky Mountains
Covered Bridges in Smoky Mountains
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of this Wednesday November 9
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2022. the old myth is behind me here in
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Pigeon Forge Tennessee established back
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in the
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1830s according to that sign this
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walkway this bridge
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which they are adorning and preparing
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for the Christmas season which is
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rearing its head very soon Dollywood has
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already
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pretty much embrace the holidays and
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Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg in Sevierville
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very very soon if not already I am going
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to be having more of a peaceful day I'm
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gonna go to some covered bridges
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smaller communities on the outskirts
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and also stuff in town
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I'm just enjoying today I'm gonna get a
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cup of coffee we'll just cruise around
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see what I can see I'm inviting you
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to join me some non-touristy stuff in
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there I've been covering some touristy
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stuff this is going to be non-terrorism
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join me shall we this is just so dang
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awesome that it deserves not to have my
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face in the frame
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wheel turning around there the water
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wheel
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the restaurant off in the distance
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serving breakfast lunch dinner The Old
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Mill
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sometimes they will let people stand
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over there on the little rock formation
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there's a staircase that leads down but
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they have a little chain up saying no
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one's allowed over there
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so I had to do my intro from here
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gotta love the Smokies I'm gonna be
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going through a canopy of trees right
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here take a look at this
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off the main strip off the main
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thoroughfare
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now the summer I don't know if I'd call
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these back roads but
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definitely less populated for the
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touristy areas of
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pulled over in the parking lot of this
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quaint little Country Church
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the classic steeple up top
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Roberts United
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God tries our face so we may try his
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faithfulness I always like reading
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reading the signs some of the
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inspirational messages on Church
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Billboards like this what really Drew my
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attention off the side of this road was
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this Old Barn grown over with the vines
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and whatnot and there's also a house
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over here a little Farmhouse sitting
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there desolate looks like there's a shed
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an open door I don't know if I want to
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go rooting around
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inside there there's no other snakes or
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bears and whatnot but I do wanna
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just walk parallel to the road and show
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this
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got the chimney there
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anything all grown up around of the
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foliage back there
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it's a little Garage bar and back in the
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back and
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Appliance of some sort
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washer and dryer tucked away back there
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it's fascinating To Think Places like
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this where someone's dreams someone's
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someone's lot in life someone lived here
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with their family
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shared memories created
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events that transpired that
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family still talks about even though
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they might not be around anymore
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or at least the property's not around
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anymore
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remnants of the past
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I'm heading this way over to a covered
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bridge
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but this stuff always draws me in
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these type of items it's hard not to
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want to pull over see this stuff
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especially when they're right here off
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the road there's the old big barn down
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there I first showed across from the
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church
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down this road it's a possibility
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seeing a tractor
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most of the leaves have already changed
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oh there's a cow on that sign right
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there
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oh salisu have already changed or Fallen
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but there's still some
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some remnants of the leave change that
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happened a week or two a couple weeks
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ago through here
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that's probably two or three weeks when
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they were out there most color changing
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all right that road marked Harrisburg
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Mill Road
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and then this sign says anything over
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nine feet
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should go down that road because the
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road I'm continuing on
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is the covered bridge signified right
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there nine feet and under only one lane
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stop ahead
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I don't know why I love this stuff so
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much but yeah this is awesome
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there's a stop sign right here at the
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base of it
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so I'm gonna stop here at the side and
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then roll through and get the ambiance
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driving through a covered bridge always
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reminds me of Beetlejuice
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yes
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I'm gonna pull over here okay I'm going
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up here to turn around you can see it at
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the bottom of the hill
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there is a home down there with a garage
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with no parking side so I'm trying to
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figure out where I can park in a
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follow the neighborhood guidelines on
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where to park but I'm gonna try to do a
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U-turn up here and then go back down the
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hill to that amazing covered bridge that
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Relic down there doing a quick U-turn
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here
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in the driveway of this
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kind of closed up shuttered home
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have turned around now going back down
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the hill
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I think a good spot will probably be
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where these folks down here park their
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Jeep
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so you see a credit car going through
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I think I'm just going to park right
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behind
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this couple here
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you know what I'm gonna drive through it
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one more time
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because this is
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awesome
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the Harrisburg Covered Bridge built in
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1875. I am going to get out
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actually that jeep
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has stopped to take a photo there the
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people that were out kind of walking
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around but I found this little kind of
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Alcove area over here not Alcove but a
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little parking area that just stops like
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an abrupt stop here where these trailers
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were oh listen
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the Jeep's driving through see if I
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could hear the creakiness even from here
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okay they stopped but I parked over here
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next to these empty trailers
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well how would you even get up there I
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guess this would be on the back
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of the trailers
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the Jeep to the u-turn
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I had to go through I don't blame him I
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went through it twice also
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this thing has definitely seen some
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years I could tell some stories if these
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walls could talk
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I'm gonna walk right to the middle of it
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I love when you drive over it look even
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walking the creakiness or walking over
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it
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Harrisburg cover bridge was built back
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in 1875 dedicated by the Great Smokies
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chapter and Spencer Clark chapter
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back on the 14th day of June 1972 this
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placard was placed here
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it's when it was dedicated but the
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bridge has been standing since
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1875. I have had the desire to kind of
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show some of this other type of stuff
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that non-terroristy stuff that kind of
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cars coming through
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and a friend of mine messaged me this
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morning and said you know there's a
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couple covered bridges in the area which
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got me thinking he had visited here with
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his family and made me decide I should
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go check out the covered bridges too
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and I'm glad I did because this is
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gosh that is so cool
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this is what I was referring to CC
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private property there and the people
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who own this home here do not want
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anyone parking in this there's a No
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Parking sign but they do have
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something on the side of their little
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shed there that says Harrisburg Covered
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Bridge built in 1875 there
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this is a very peaceful living out here
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would be so awesome you have a lot of
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land this isn't too far
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from the main area of Pigeon Forge and
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Sevierville either
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really isn't
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like once you kind of get off the main
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Parkway
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a lot of this area is very peaceful and
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a lot different
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they got this so no big trucks try to go
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through there this will
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kind of let anyone know with like a bump
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or some damage to a bigger truck today
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don't go under the bridge better to
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damage a truck than it would be to
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damage this historic Bridge
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this car wants to pull through or wants
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to try and find a parking spot also
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I just love the sound of vehicles going
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over that thing
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oh they're going fast it sounds a lot
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better when it's slow
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someone goes slow this listen to the
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sound
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okay that's too fast see if the next
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card goes a little slower
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take it about half of that pace
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this car's going
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okay that's too fast for the Ambiance
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probably locals that are just trying to
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get to where it's got to go
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people like me enjoying the tourism
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factor of this the nostalgic Factor
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okay listen to this listen
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this person's going at the appropriate
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speed
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I think of Kingpin as a quoting Kingpin
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that I always think about when things
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are have a soothing and great feel to
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them listen
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foreign
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ER than you who
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take a look over there there's a tractor
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trailer
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back portion of a tractor trailer tipped
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over on the other side like it almost
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went down the side of the Hill
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it's just sitting over there
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definitely taking the scenic route
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through here
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along this River
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now this other one is on the outskirts
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of an area called Pitman
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off of a side road
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ah
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right over there
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I can see it from here
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down this little road called Hills Creek
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the other one was nine feet this is nine
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feet six inches so nine and a half feet
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this is a little taller than the other
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one but there is a sign here that says
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one lane bridge
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got somebody here taking a photo I'm
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gonna drive through this one too cross
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street of emmerts Cove Road
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nine feet six inches
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this is not gonna have the creaky boards
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like the other one did this is paved
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this seems to be a little newer
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I don't think this dates back as far as
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the other one
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and just off the Wayside classic truck
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alert
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right there in that old barn
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even an upside down horseshoe above it
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or is it right side up it's a horseshoe
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above the door
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weight limit six tons
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or 11 tons depending on which diagram
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you're looking at here
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small truck here six tons
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bigger truck 11 tons
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this information placard
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the bridge is named in honor of
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Frederick emert or Emmert who came here
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with his family in 1790 as the area's
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first settler
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interesting in 97 under the leadership
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of Mayor Judy Perryman
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provided local funds to go with the
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state and federal money in the spring of
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2000 the bridge was constructed okay
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this has only been here since the turn
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of the century
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in 2000 the bridge spans the Waters of
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the middle prong of the little Pigeon
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River
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designated outstanding National resource
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water back in March of 1988. and the
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unique thing about this is there have
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constructed a walkway
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so you don't have to walk right down the
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middle of where the cars would drive you
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see the gentleman over there as part of
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his vehicle we also have this little
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walkway off to the side
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so this bridge is only 22 years old
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but it is made to look almost more like
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an antique relic of sorts at least what
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I could designate from that sign
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this is built in 2000 but it really
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looks a lot older
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still a covered bridge and that is
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fantastic so you don't see too many of
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these
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they are things of the past
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a motorized golf cart item
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going through and here comes a car going
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through now too you can tell the
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difference in the sound
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definitely more of a vibe on the other
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one
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this one's cool too
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fun fact is trash cans here the reason
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these look like this
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and it's just not open air like that and
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the reason these little flaps are on
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here is to keep Bears out of the trash
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this one's missing the bottom portion of
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the trash can but yeah that's what
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that's what those like metal flaps are
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for
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I'm sure some bears get creative and can
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put their paws underneath here to open
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it up but it's probably pretty rare
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that's why those were invented
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ah that is that is a beautiful thing
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even though it's
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not as old as I thought it was until I
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read the information
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still pretty look at this thing this is
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I would have guessed this was built long
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before the turn of the century should go
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back over there and reread that just to
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confirm
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I realized there was a guy down there
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fishing
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has camouflage
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okay there's another sign right over
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let me just confirm yeah look at this
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who'd have guessed constructed in 2000
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six inches taller than the one that was
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built
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what over a century ago
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try to slide the angle over and I didn't
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realize there was a little tiny tree
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limb right there
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sorry tree
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two really good cover bridges that I saw
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today in this area
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it's the little things folks it's a
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little thanks they're simple thanks
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Simple Pleasures
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this little cabin over here
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back over into Pigeon Forge now
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this appears to be some sort of
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conference center at one time now
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sitting here desolate
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an antenna up there like kind of
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old-timey antenna
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chipped off paint parts of the cinder
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block
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well that's gonna do it for today kind
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of short and sweet
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I wanted to see some covered bridges and
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some
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stuff kind of off the Wayside oh yeah
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look at this
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so I did
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there's certainly plenty of tourist
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activities around these parts
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but there's a lot of stuff once you get
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off the parkway whether in Gatlinburg or
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Pigeon Forge
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some Scenic Beauty
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covered bridges
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and a lot of peacefulness I'll see you
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in the next video of the Vlog is over