Locating I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge was a bad idea, but we’re stuck with it
If you’re like me, you avoid driving I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge like warm beer on a hot summer day.
Hey, if I have to circle through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas to enter Tennessee from the west and then drive east back to Knoxville, I’ll do it. Perhaps I exaggerate, but that drive through the gorge to Knoxville has always been one of white knuckles, clinched orifices and prayers that speeding semis don’t topple over on you in a curve.
