This is an urban exploration video that explores one of the most fascinating abandoned places I’ve ever looked at which is the Wonderland Club and Hotel and a secluded area of Elkmont inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg and Sevierville, Tennessee. Abandoned places can sometimes just be an empty building or two, but the Wonderland Club and Hotel and the vacation homes nearby offer up a rich history for the people who enjoyed so many good times in the area.
When I first started doing urban exploration and exploring abandoned places like the Wonderland Club and Hotel in the Elkmont area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, I had no idea that my video would one day receive millions of views. It even made it to the top and center placement on the front page of Yahoo News, where it received an absolutely incredible amount of views in a short period of time.
As I mentioned, this urban exploration video of this treasured abandoned place is part of Elkmont. However, the Wonderland Club and Hotel area is not something that most people see when they visit the area. Most of the time, the vast majority of the people who visit Elkmont drive right past the old Wonderland Club and Hotel area and end up near the campground, where there is a partially restored row of old homes that people can look at. However, that’s not what you see in my video.
One thing that makes this slice of urban exploration interesting out of all the abandoned places I’ve ever visited is that the Wonderland Club and Hotel area in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has stone steps leading up to the entrance, and those steps are covered with overgrown plants and trees. Once you get to the top, there’s a stone circle for the fountain and then the site of the old and main building for the hotel. The hotel annex is what you can see in my video, not the main hotel itself, as it had been torn down years earlier.
Years ago, when my urban exploration video of this abandoned place was featured on blogs, those blogs lied and said that I claimed to have been the first to discover the Wonderland Club and Hotel area, which led to a lot of misleading coverage from local news outlets in that area of Tennessee. However, as you can see at the end of my video, I noted the history of the grounds and paid proper tribute to all of it. My usage of the word “discovered” at the beginning of the video was another way of saying I stumbled upon it. The fact that later in the video I detailed the history of the grounds all the way through the 1990s, plus the fact that I said there were park rangers across the street… that should be enough for people to see that I didn’t deceive anyone. However, as we all know now, people believe headlines and move on. It’s too bad, because I think they might enjoy my video.
I hope that you can enjoy my look at this out of all of the abandoned places or urban exploration videos I’ve done, as the Wonderland Club and Hotel area in Great Smoky Mountains National Park holds a special place in my heart.
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27 авг 2024
