Great Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg to Cherokee with a travel trailer or RV
Great Smoky Mountains runs 35 miles from Gatlinburg to Cherokee. With an RV, you're looking at 1 h 25 min behind the wheel. Our map shows it sealed the whole way.
We planned it on Motocamp's own router for an RV and for a truck and travel trailer, at the sizes in the table below, so every number here comes from a real plan, not a guess.
The stops: Gatlinburg · Cherokee
Is Great Smoky Mountains OK for an RV?
Yes, on our plan. It gets through for an RV without using a road signed too low, too short or closed to trailers. Here's what to keep an eye on.
- It keeps you off 1 nearby road with a signed limit your rig wouldn't clear, like Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail (25 ft long).
The plan, rig by rig
| RV | Truck and travel trailer | |
|---|---|---|
| Distance | 35 miles | 35 miles |
| Driving time | 1 h 25 min | 1 h 25 min |
| Unsealed | none | none |
| Steeper than 8% | under a mile | under a mile |
| Total climb | 3,819 ft | 3,819 ft |
| Longest gap between fuel | not on our map | not on our map |
| Signed limits it goes round | 1 | 1 |
| Planned at | 13 ft 1 in high, 40 ft long and 26,455 lb | 11 ft 6 in high, 38 ft 1 in long and 11,464 lb |
Towns on the way
- Gatlinburg · mile 0
RV parks on the way
- Gatlinburg Creekside RV Resort · mile 0
- Twin Creek RV Resort · mile 0
- Cherokee / Great Smokies KOA Holiday · mile 29
- Cherokee Riverfront RV Park · mile 32
- Fort Wilderness RV Park and Campground · mile 35
National park and other campgrounds
- Spence Cabin · mile 4 · fees apply
- Rough Creek #24 · mile 6 · fees apply
- Mount LeConte Shelter · mile 11 · fees apply
- Icewater Spring Shelter · mile 14 · fees apply
- Poke Patch #53 · mile 19 · fees apply
- Cabin Flats #49 · mile 25 · fees apply
- Newton Bald #52 · mile 27 · fees apply
- Smokemont Campground · mile 28 · fees apply
- River Valley Campground · mile 30
- Great Smokey Mountain RV · mile 35
- and 9 more in the app
Dump points
- at Smokemont Group Camp · mile 28
- at Cherokee / Great Smokies KOA Holiday · mile 29
- at River Valley Campground · mile 30
- at Great Smokey Mountain RV · mile 35
Plan this trip for your own rig
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Tell Motocamp what you drive, from an enduro bike to a 40-foot RV, and it plans this trip for that vehicle: the roads it fits, the low bridges and closed roads to steer clear of, and places to stay on the way. The maps keep working where there's no signal.
Plan this trip for your own rig Already have Motocamp USA? Open it hereCamps, fuel and road limits come from OpenStreetMap and state agencies, and some can be missing or out of date. Distances are along our plan. Always go by the signs on the road.