Minyan Chol hamoed in Great Smoky Mountain Park

Find a Chabad center in the area, and they will find a minyan for you – or make one, if they cannot find one.

Post on Godaven, I always had luck there, in fact when I was in Gatlinburg, we posted on Godaven and had 20 plus people at the minyan for the entire week we were there.
When I was at Lake Powell in 2020 the parking lot of Horseshoe Bend looked like Shomer Shabbos with 4 pop up minyanim for mincha -mariv.

@huju, unless you are in a major tourist or business center Chabad does not have minyanim except for shabbos and even that is iffy in sometimes, I once prearranged a minyan for shabbos with shalich, we were 6, shalich and his family were 3 and one local.

I sense that Gadolha and Common Saychel have doubts about Chabad’s readiness to raise a minyan. And yet Common S tells us Chabad did help him/her raise a minyan.

There are lots of ways to find a minyan. Chabad is not the only way, but it is a good way.

Seriously. I believe that the Sheraton in Gatlinburg is owned by a shomer shabbos yid and pre-covid they used to run a Pesach program every year with some of the more wealthy Jews of Atlanta. NCSY used to run a program there (not on Pesach) every year and I believe that there is a Sefer Torah on premises. Call up the OU and ask for the contact.

huju,

“I sense that Gadolha and Common Saychel have doubts about Chabad’s readiness to raise a minyan. And yet Common S tells us Chabad did help him/her raise a minyan.”

He did not tell us that – he said that he posted on godaven. From my personal experiences with far-flung Chabad houses, making a daily minyan is not one of their biggest priorities. I’m sure the shaliach will try to help if requested, but you should ask what the chances are of success.

I was in the Smokies a couple of summers ago on the NC side of the park and was pleasantly surprised to encounter more than one other frum family during our stay. I had never seen other frum people there before on previous trips. Chol Hamoed is probably a bit tougher to swing given the distance from frum communities (Atlanta is probably the closest and is several hours away).

@Reb Shlomo, the Gatlinburg retreat was organized by Al Thomas of Memphis, [ the hotel owner] and this had nothing to do with the OU, the hotel was sold and the retreat ended in the early 2000s. Having been there I can tell you for a fact that there is no sefer torah there, you either need to bring your own or borrow from Chabad in Knoxville or Chattanoga or one of the shuls in Atlanta.

@Huju “I sense that Gadolha and Common Saychel have doubts about Chabad’s readiness to raise a minyan. And yet Common S tells us Chabad did help him/her raise a minyan.”
Avram in MD is correct and making a daily minyan is not biggest priority for them [given all the other things they deal with], in my case I called a few weeks before and rov minyan was my family, most of the shluchim are very upfront that there is no minyan, if you have a yartzite and are in some far flung place and need to say kaddish they will try the best to find 8 other jews somewhere but don’t count on it.