The Seven Shittiest Sins
Greed: I want shit
Envy: I want your shit
Wrath: I'm going to wreck your shit
Lust: I'm into some freaky shit
Gluttony: This is some tasty shit
Sloth: I don't feel like doing shit
Pride: I am the shit
The forgotten promise - The Road to Nowhere (Bryson City, NC)
Im sorry if any of the words offend anyone, it is not my intention to point out or offend, I merely took a picture and this is what it said. I was in a tunnel that was completely pitch black, so I thought it would be cool to show you all an example of what was in the tunnel. This tunnel is what lead me and my group of friends onto the 8 mile trail we hiked for 4 hours.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Swain County gave up the majority of its private land to the Federal Government for the creation of Fontana Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hundreds of people were forced to leave the small Smoky Mountain communities that had been their homes for generations. With the creation of the Park, their homes were gone, and so was the road to those communities. Old Highway 288 was buried beneath the deep waters of Fontana Lake.
The Federal government promised to replace Highway 288 with a new road. Lakeview Drive was to have stretched along the north shore of Fontana Lake, from Bryson City to Fontana, 30 miles to the west. And, of special importance to those displaced residents, it was to have provided access to the old family cemeteries where generations of ancestors remained behind.
But Lakeview Drive fell victim to an environmental issue and construction was stopped, with the road ending at a tunnel, about six miles into the park. The environmental issue was eventually resolved, but the roadwork was never resumed. And Swain County’s citizens gave the unfinished Lakeview Drive its popular, albeit unofficial name “The Road To Nowhere.”On weekends throughout the summer, the Park Service still ferries groups of Swain County residents across Fontana Lake to visit their old family cemetaries for Decoration Days and family reunions.
The legal issue of whether to build the road was finally reolved in February, 2010 when the US Department of Interior signed a settlement agreement paying Swain County $52 million in lieu of building the road. Congressman Heath Shuler, a Bryson City naitve, was the driving force in bringing the settlement to fruition.
This place really is eerie and lonely. But it has interesting graffitti on the inside. I suspect this is also a place of gang initiation in the area as well as just a place for people to express themselves. But nonetheless the inside of the tunnel is all mildew, water draining down the sides, and very apocalypsish XD It is 200 feet long. but nonetheless the walls were littered in graffiti.
