All aboard for a fun-filled train ride from Bryson City through the Great Smoky Mountains. All aboard for a fun-filled train ride from Bryson City through the Great Smoky Mountains.

As dusk settles over Bryson City, the glow of a steam locomotive cuts through the mountain air, signaling the start of a holiday tradition.

All aboard for some Christmas Cheer with a side of stunning scenery. A Christmas train ride is a marvelous way to spend time with family, and passengers might even get a cup of cocoa and a cookie.

Tucked away in a quaint corner of our beautiful North Carolina mountains, Bryson City offers the opportunity to step back in time to an era of small-town life, cool mountain-flowing waters and trains ...

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It's a drive, but if you're up for one, the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad will host the Peanuts Easter Beagle Express on Easter weekend. Trains will depart from a depot in Bryson City, which is about ...

Travels 13 of the most scenic tourist railways in the eastern United States. Also shows how the Great Smoky Mountains Railway staged the massive train wreck in the movie "The Fugitive," in a short ...

Between September and November, the landscape wakes up. Leaves drain from green to flame, humidity drops out of the air, and entire regions take on the clarity of a cleaned lens. The shift is quick in ...