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# Cades Cove
- URL: https://brentajones.com/cades-cove/
- Published: 2022-01-31T23:12:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T19:03:16.000Z
- Description: Photographs of Cades Cove's deer, open meadows, distant Smoky Mountain ridges, old gravestones, and the working details of a wooden mill wheel.
- Author: Brent Jones
- Tags: Tennessee, Smoky Mountains, National Park

Cades Cove is an isolated valley located in the Tennessee section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park. Today Cades Cove, the single most popular destination for visitors to the park, attracts more than two million visitors a year because of its well preserved homesteads, scenic mountain views, and abundant display of wildlife. The Cades Cove Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

I have been fortunate to be able to visit Cades Cove many times, while in the Smoky mountains. With the most visit I was able to check off a bucket list item and I biked around the 11 mile loop. I have gone through many of the historic buildings that families used and lived in at one time. I also even saw a family of bears one of the times that I went around the loop, sadly at that time I was unable to get the photo. 

Hope everyone enjoys the pictures.

![Deer stands in shaded woodland](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7026.jpg)

![Single old headstone surrounded by grass](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7036.jpg)

![Two weathered headstones among fallen leaves](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7038.jpg)

![Autumn trees border an open Cades Cove meadow](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7042.jpg)

![Clouds drift above a broad mountain valley](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7049.jpg)

![Pasture and distant ridges beneath low clouds](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7057.jpg)

![Fence and green meadow beneath bright clouds](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7104.jpg)

![Wide view of Cades Cove's surrounding mountains](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7062.jpg)

![Wooden mill wheel beside a weathered building](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7074.jpg)

![Water runs through a large wooden mill wheel](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7084.jpg)

![Head-on view of a mill wheel and wooden water chute](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7093.jpg)

![Water flows through a fenced wooden channel](https://brentajones.com/content/images/2022/01/IMG_7099.jpg)

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