The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains

from WUNC-FM: News · host Charlie Shelton-Ormond

Just a few miles from the tallest concrete dam east of the Mississippi River, there's a paved road that ends at a mysterious tunnel. This unfinished roadway, deep inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is known as the Road to Nowhere.

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