Aerial Tramway upgrades have been underway for eight weeks. Our team has been working hard to ensure reopening by May 28th. In the past two weeks, we have successfully rigged all the new track rope cable to the Aerial Tramway. Now that the new cable is in installed, the Aerial Tramway is undergoing testing and…
Aerial Tramway upgrades have been underway for six weeks. Our team has been working hard to ensure completion by our projected date of May 28th. We have started to install new track rope cable on our second tram line. A winch is needed to install the new track rope, and this is a slow process…
Aerial Tramway upgrades have been underway for four weeks. Our team has been working hard to ensure completion by our projected date of May 28th. Two weeks ago, we ran into a problem. When dismantling the gear box and drive shaft, we noticed it was not lining up. A few years ago, we had an…
The Aerial Tramway upgrades have been underway for two weeks and a lot of progress has been made. Here is what has happened in the first two weeks despite all the rain we received the last week of March. We received 4 spools, approximately 9 miles, of track rope and they are in place ready…
Operating the only ski area in Tennessee is no easy task and the year 2020 brought a great deal of uncertainty to the ski area industry. Despite all the uncertainty coming out of 2020, Ober Gatlinburg is having one of the best ski seasons in years. We have a temperature independent snow making system, Snow…
