Your journey to Smokies trails may take longer with this Gatlinburg highway closure subsequent week

Sections of Little River Street in Gatlinburg will shut for a number of hours on two separate days starting Sept. 10, based on the Nationwide Park Service.

Sections of the highway can be closed whereas crews full wanted roadside work together with mowing and pruning, ditch and culvert cleansing, shoulder drop off restore and hazard tree mitigation, NPS defined.

The highway closures are supposed to make sure security and that the work is effectively accomplished. Guests ought to plan for elevated journey time.

When will Little River Street be closed?

• Little River Street from the Townsend Wye to Metcalf Bottoms can be closed 7 a.m.-noon Sept. 10. Guests can use Wears Valley Street (US 321) between Townsend and Line Springs Street as a detour.

• Little River Street from Metcalf Bottoms to the Elkmont Street juncture can be closed 7 a.m.-noon Sept. 12. Guests can use Wears Valley Street between Line Springs Street and Pigeon Forge as a detour.

Common websites together with Laurel Falls Path, Elkmont, Metcalf Bottoms and Cades Cove will stay accessible through the closures however might require detours, NPS suggested.

Motor properties, buses and vans longer than 25 ft, in addition to any passenger automobiles towing a trailer, are prohibited on Put on Cove Hole Street to and from the park boundary, together with the Metcalf Bridge, NPS famous in a information launch.

Up to date info relating to highway and path closures is out there at nps.gov/grsm and the park’s social media accounts.

Devarrick Turner is a trending information reporter. E mail devarrick.turner@knoxnews.com. On X, previously often called Twitter @dturner1208.

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This text initially appeared on Knoxville Information Sentinel: Little River Road closures in Gatlinburg begin Sept. 10