Dollywood has been a Pigeon Forge fixture for 40 years - but the land the park occupies has been a tourist attraction for far ...

The themes of those parks ushered in many contemporary Dollywood favorites − live performances, Southern comfort food and train rides through the foothills of the Smokies. Those early parks ...

Take a trip back to Dollywood's beginning in 1986 with this video of scenes from TV commercials for the Pigeon Forge theme ...

Backed by Parton singing (of course), the ad footage features visitors splashing along on rides, dancers and singers performing and Dolly herself on the engine of the Dollywood Express train.

rob the train, that kind of thing.” He’s now a construction supervisor and says there isn’t a building in the park he hasn’t had a hand in, like other employees, he says Dollywood’s ...

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