Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail

A one-way scenic loop in Great Smoky Mountains National Park that winds past historic cabins and old-growth forest. The whole area used to be a thriving mountain community.

The Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail is haunted by one of Gatlinburg's most famous ghosts -- a young woman named Lucy who died in a cabin fire around 1909. If you encounter a beautiful young woman looking for a ride on this isolated mountain road, you may have just met Lucy's ghost.

Legend has it that about a year after her death, a man named Foster spotted a beautiful woman in the woods and shared his horse with her. When he went to seek her parents' approval to court her, they informed him that she'd passed not long ago. Lucy still looks for rides along the trail and can be seen in the woods near where her cabin burned to the ground. Visitors have reported seeing a young woman in period dress walking along the roadside or standing among the trees. Some have stopped to offer assistance, only to have her vanish before their eyes. The temperature drops sharply along certain stretches of the trail, and the smell of wood smoke sometimes drifts through the air where no fire burns. Lucy's presence adds something supernatural to this already atmospheric mountain drive.