(Fall/Spring Getaway, Family Vacations) Andrews Valley Rail Tours, Smoky Mountains
North Carolina’s First RailBike Tour
Put this on your bucket list for next spring/fall 2024: Andrews Valley Rail Tours, North Carolina’s First RailBike Tour.
We did this with my teens & 86-year-old mom during our pre-Thanksgiving, Fall break visit to the Smoky Mountains this November 2023. Biking a cart on a railroad track to a historic hand-carved tunnel was a special, unique way to experience that area.
You ride a rail cart, equipped with pedals that you pedal like a bike, plus a motor-assist, on the train track through the valley past cows, goats, meadows and a river about five miles to the Historic Valley River Tunnel, which was hand carved by workers from Southern Railway in 1894. That right, we basically biked a rail cart over railroad bridges, then got out to explore the tunnel, before pedaling/coasting back.
The railbike tour is closed for the 2023 season but will reopen for the season in Spring 2024.
Go!
Learn more here.
