Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail

A scenic one-way loop road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, featuring historic cabins, old-growth forest, and beautiful mountain streams. The trail passes through what was once 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 met a tragic end 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 had tragically 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. Cold spots are encountered along the trail, and the smell of wood smoke sometimes drifts through the air where no fire burns. Lucy's presence adds an element of the supernatural to this already atmospheric mountain drive.