Part of the dam deal, to assuage those being displaced, was to build a road from Bryson City to Deals Gap along a route north of the river. It was intended to not only allow people to make the ...

The dam is more than 100 years old and has sparked debate in the New Albany community if it should remain or be demolished due to safety concerns. Bryson said her family frequents city parks ...

A previous Park Service estimate said construction of a road from where it ends now outside Bryson City to the Fontana Dam area would cost more than $700 million. And, Winchester said ...

BRYSON CITY, N.C. — Have you heard of the Road to ... up its land to the federal government to create Fontana Lake and Dam and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. RELATED: ‘Bust Your Butt ...

The other, the Lakeshore Trail, famously starts coming out of the abandoned Lakeview Drive road tunnel just outside of Bryson City, N.C. but it ends only 30 feet from the AT near the dam.