Ranger Bob’s Trading Post

This is one of my favorite stores in all of Tennessee. They don’t have cheap merchandise and they have items for a nature lover as well as the tourist. Their t-​shirts are good quality and they sell beautiful decorations. In past years I’ve purchased large items there such as table lamps with black bears in them, large portraits worth over $ 200, and tapestries and all of them have been excellent quality. The workers in the store are always very friendly. And the store always smells phenomenal thanks to their «Bear Farts» candle they always have on the warmer (which I always end up taking home with me!). My only disappointment with this store is they stopped carrying my husband’s favorite cologne. The Smoky Mountain Spyce. Now we have to order it online when we’d much rather pay Ranger Bob’s!

During our stop in Gatlinburg we wanted to pick up a Christmas ornament for a friend and for ourselves. Since we were there in mid-​November, we didn’t think it would be a problem. We didn’t hit EVERY shop on the strip, but we hit quite a few and this was the only store we could find any ornaments.
We knew there was the GINORMOUS shop in Pigeon Forge, but we drove through there before the store was open. Once we were at the hotel we didn’t want to drive through the awful traffic again. And on our way out we went the other way and it was even earlier in the morning.
So thanks so this shop for having cute bear Gatlinburg ornaments so we could fulfill our goal of getting an ornament from every stop on our honeymoon and being able to provide a gift from an area our friends have never been,