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 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…
Ober Gatlinburg started with a vision in which people could view Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains while heading safely up to the Gatlinburg Ski Resort. The lower terminal of the Aerial Tramway was constucted in 1972/73 on the original site of The Hemlock Motel (open in the 60’s and early 70’s). In the beginning, the Gatlinburg…
