We spent a week in Pigeon Force during Christmas week this past winter, to enjoy the feeling of a Christmas wonderland, and mountain chills, and to enjoy snow-tubing at Ober Gatlinburg....it rained and was in the 50's the first three days; when we went to Ober on the fourth day, with a bit of sun and low 60's. The folks at Ober could barely keep the artificial snow-making machines going fast enough to make a spit of "snow" (slush) for the tubers; the poor snow-skiers had super-skinny "trails" of slushy, muddy, artificial snow that would widen out to snow bogs at turns....it was quite depressing. Mostly, we all just got hot and wet......I could have stayed home and got that, but that is the way stuff goes sometimes.
The good news is that there is plenty of "un-signed" beach in SOWAL for guests to chose from besides that fronting the leaching cesspools of BMB, and select other areas. The key is to monitor the water reports and base where you lay and play dependent on where the water quality is good...(seriously, this being 2016, you'd think the homes still having leaching septic drain fields in the dunes would have long-since been connected to utility sewer service.....one can't expect this area be considered a "jewel" to our potential guests if they get wind--no pun intended--that we're merely polishing the Proverbial turd).
