Harrah's Cherokee Casino


As well as all the usual casino games, this high-rise complex holds a towering hotel block, two swimming pools, a spa and restaurants of all kinds. There’s also an impressive water-and-video display in the lobby.


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1. Museum of the Cherokee Indian

1.37 MILES

This remarkable modern museum traces Cherokee history from their Paleo-Indian roots onwards. Its villain is the perfidious Andrew Jackson, who made his…

2. Mountain Farm Museum

2.93 MILES

Adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, this excellent collection of historic buildings evokes life on a typical farmstead of the late 19th century…

3. Mingus Mill

3.5 MILES

One of the park's most picturesque 19th-century buildings, the Mingus Mill is a turbine-powered mill that still grinds wheat and corn much as it has since…

4. Rockefeller Memorial

12.02 MILES

This two-tiered stone-walled structure overlooking two states commemorates the $5 million contribution John D Rockefeller Jr made to help make the…

5. Newfound Gap

12.02 MILES

The lowest drivable pass through the Smoky Mountains is located here, at 5046ft. After the pass was discovered in 1872, a new road followed suit,…

6. Clingmans Dome

12.9 MILES

‘On top of Old Smoky’ is Clingmans Dome (elevation 6643ft), the park’s highest peak. At the summit, a steep, half-mile paved trail leads to an observation…

7. Great Smoky Mountains National Park

14.46 MILES

The story of the Smoky Mountains began in primordial times when clashing supersized continents created a chain of mountains that are today among the…

8. Caldwell House

14.67 MILES

With its weatherboarding, interior paneling and shingled gables, as well as its white exterior and jaunty blue trim, this frame house, built in 1906,…