Oconaluftee Visitor Center and Mountain Farm Museum
Open Air Museum · Cherokee, North Carolina
North Carolina's main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, at the bottom of the Oconaluftee valley where the Newfound Gap road comes down off the ridge. Beside the visitor centre stands the Mountain Farm Museum - a collection of log farm buildings gathered from across the park in the 1950s and assembled into a single working homestead, one of the largest such collections of original log structures in the country. Elk graze the field in front of it most mornings and evenings.
1194 Newfound Gap Road, Cherokee, North Carolina, 28719, United States
FREE and open daily, generally 9 AM to 5 PM with extended hours in summer, closed Christmas Day. The Mountain Farm Museum buildings are open dawn to dusk year round and are FREE to walk through at any time, even when the visitor centre is shut. ⚠ A PARKING TAG IS REQUIRED to park anywhere in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for more than 15 minutes - daily, weekly or annual, bought online or on site. There is still no park entrance fee.
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