City: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

Category: Shopping

Telephone: (865) 436-7318

Description: This is another of the wonderful little shops run by the nonprofit Great Smoky Mountains Association, which stocks a wide variety of Smokies-related goods including apparel, toys, local specialty foods, gifts, and books. All purchases made at GSMA shops benefit the national park. If you become a member, you’ll get a 15 percent discount on all GSMA shop purchases, as well as discounts at many local businesses. This is one of two locations for GSMA shops in Gatlinburg. The other is inside the Gatlinburg Welcome Center on the Spur, US 441 South, a few miles before the start of downtown. You’ll also find GSMA shops in Sevierville as well as in each of the three visitor centers in the national park. For a more detailed description of what the shops carry, where they are, and what the membership benefits include, see the write-up in the Sevierville section of this chapter.