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Cherohala Lunch

Details

Your Host(s): Fred Fisher aka FranticFreddy

Drive Pace: Moderate

Day Start Time Finish Time Cost Meeting Place People Limit MINIs Limit
Thursday 1:30pm 6:30pm Pay for your own Dinner General Store Parking Lot at Fontana Village 30 none

Pay for your own Dinner.

Ride the Dragon and stop for dinner at the “Lodge at Tellico”. Whether you are a veteran “Dragon Slayer” or this is your first time you will enjoy this leisurely paced drive.

We will leave from the General Store parking lot at 1:30. Our route will take us down Hellbender and over “The Dragon”. Wave to the photographers as we go by.

We will continue out to US 411 and after a short trip on the 4lane we will turn back into the country roads we love to travel. Our next stop is the town of Tellico Plains, Tenn. Our destination is the “ Lodge at Tellico” Walt and his staff make us feel right at home as we have dinner on the porch over looking the Tennessee Country side.

After dinner we will take a moment to stop and fill up on some “Cheap” Tennessee Gas and the off to our next stop. This year we have added a little side trip to Bald River Falls. It seems as most of these drives have a water fall, what the heck. Another chance to take a picture of your MINI in front of more falling water.

Then its off to the center piece of this drive, an early evening run east on the Cherohala Skyway. Here you can set your own pace as the road unwinds before you. Not as intense as “The Dragon” it is none the less enjoyable for the novice or the experienced. Just watch out for the motorcycles, they do not hold back. We will gather up at the end of the Skyway to wait for everyone to catch up.

We will then take a shortcut back around past the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest and come back to US129. At this point those wishing to go to Robbinsville can turn right those going back to Fontana will turn left. We then will go past “Fugitive Dam” (you are welcome to stop and take pictures if you like. Then its up the few miles of “The Dragon” and then onto Hellbender and back to Fontana.
Directions and Map

Your Schedule (give or take a little)

Start Finish Activity
1:30pm Depart from Fontana
1:30pm 3:30pm Drive from Fontana Village to "The Lodge at Tellico Plains" (via the Dragon)
3:30pm 5:00pm Dinner at the Lodge at Tellico Plains
5:00pm 6:30pm Drive back to Fontana via the Dragon

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Additional Links: The Lodge at Tellico Plains
Cherohala Skyway

Who Is Going?

There are currently 30 people signed up with 21 MINIs attending.

  1. AFWingnut
  2. amyh
  3. bnuccio
  4. canucc00
  5. ChiliRed Justa
  6. colinmini
  7. conrita1
  8. conrita2
  9. docv
  10. Douglas H
  11. euells
  12. fastautoxmini
  13. Giggles
  14. Goin Postal
  15. jomama
  16. Kelly H
  17. krolyat
  18. LostDenverite
  19. mdsbrain
  20. MERIDE
  21. Mini Me
  22. Mr. Jim.
  23. mrluckypa
  24. Mrs Docv
  25. Mrs. Mr. Jim
  26. msluckypa
  27. Pinot_Noir
  28. Smokey
  29. Space blue
  30. Susie-Q