Empty Gatlinburg, Tennessee Drone Video (COVID-19)

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4 жыл бұрын

A surreal look at an empty Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Because of COVID-19, the usual tourist crowds are gone, leaving behind views of Gatlinburg with no people.
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Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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@Geckomacs 4 жыл бұрын

Picked up my paycheck 2 weeks ago from my job in downtown Gatlinburg. There were people then. Do sad. Looking forward to seeing the streets filled when this is over and meeting people from the USA and the world.

@urofseron 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you work. I live here.

@ricktempleton3415 4 жыл бұрын

We'll be back.

@SmokyMountainStarlight 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable 😭💔 so sad!! Can't wait until this is over !!

@ChiDraconis 4 жыл бұрын

Expect May 31 / June 1-st

@hotelmario5203 3 жыл бұрын

It’s not going away

@gregmurphy695 4 жыл бұрын

We had to cancel anniversary trip it was going to be the third time to go there .Watched video and cried we always loved being there Let’s all pray that it’s all over soon Remember God is in control

@originaleverytime9834 4 жыл бұрын

Like a second home to me 😥 since I was 3 😭 never in a million years did I think to see a wonderful place like this looking like a ghost town

@shirleys765 4 жыл бұрын

I know. It's like my second home too. This is so sad to watch.

@LiveAboard 4 жыл бұрын

After the fires last year, the floods earlier this year, and COVID-19, Gatlinburg has faced some terrible challenges. I pray for the residents, business owners and employees. Thank you for the glimpse of how our beautiful Gatlinburg is faring.

@benphillips2344 4 жыл бұрын

Amen God Bless us all ! We are never along even in our darkest hours !

@charlesking5312 4 жыл бұрын

Great video and it will be bustling again. We’re living in a historic time just remember what’s important...family & friends and hopefully this time has brought that closer for those that are to busy to notice what they’re missing

@JohnnyontheTrail 4 жыл бұрын

wow Ben! Great footage and awesome drone pilot skills. thanks for sharing this.

@leatherkeds 4 жыл бұрын

You always capture things perfectly! Its a sublime and surreal situation that we all face together. Thanks for yet another great video of life as it really is... momentary, fleeting, and painful at times...well done!

@ubermac85 4 жыл бұрын

Thank God the moonshine distillery is still there!

@annshipp6324 4 жыл бұрын

I LOVE Gatlinburg!!!! This makes me so sad!!! God bless them!!!

@williammorgan8588 2 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋

@MsJess-oq2qj 4 жыл бұрын

A group of friends n I were just there around Valentine's for a mini vaca. So happy we went when we did. WoW!! Thank you for sharing💜Prayers for Us ALL

@phantomphlyer8341 4 жыл бұрын

Nicely done. Right mood, right music. Not jerky cut scenes.

@sandymartinez5893 4 жыл бұрын

Sad sight! Can’t wait to be able to go back and enjoy this place!!

@April-hz7vn 4 жыл бұрын

This breaks my heart,such an awesome place....

@ladybisshetravels01 4 жыл бұрын

This is so sad, I was just here in mid March celebrating my birthday. I pray that everyone can recover.

@happyguy7005 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful town!!! Love it

@n4gjm 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, looks good on my wife's 70 inch TV! Never thought we'd see anything like this! I fly a DJI Phantom 3 Pro and a Spark.

@JillWrightNailTechEvent 4 жыл бұрын

We're all just holding our breath waiting to see if Gatlinburg will be reopened in time for our yearly nail tech convention in July. It's so surreal to see the Burg with no people nor vehicles as if they just vanished into thin air. This is something I hope to never see again in my lifetime.

@MidnitrousExpress 4 жыл бұрын

Very haunting!! Nice video!!

@lonschultz-coastalscaerial7467 4 жыл бұрын

Great job creating a “solemn” mood that fits the times.

@TheWheelerdave 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, gotta love them Smokey Mountains.

@randifoos2520 4 жыл бұрын

Lived in the area for 11 years and I remember times when it would take 2 hours just to drive through Gatlinburg, traffic was so heavy.

@machineshopinc.6783 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like the best time to visit.

@deborahcarlton2052 4 жыл бұрын

I so love this place. See you in July I pray!

@DigitalDavid07 4 жыл бұрын

And I was just there a month ago! So sad. Can't wait for all of this to be over.

@Fireflyorange 4 жыл бұрын

went here before my deployment around 2010 for MWR singles retreat. It was a blast and the log cabins were epic. sad to see it shut down like this

@melanymcallister8716 4 жыл бұрын

So sad. Can't wait for this to be over. Hoping to be there in '23- Maine girl. God Bless

@americanmeatman 4 жыл бұрын

It's eerie driving through town now...

@MrEricMcCullough 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@kevinjohnson3012 4 жыл бұрын

Lived and worked there. Sometimes I would get so frustrated with the crowds of tourists and traffic I could barely stand it but this is much worst. So sad. The fire, now this, hope everyone survives physically and financially.

@survivalltsurvivallt6157 4 жыл бұрын

Good one keep it up 👍👍 like your videos

@flywrightdrones 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice work

@VacationStationTV 4 жыл бұрын

Nice footage.

@amywalker3267 4 жыл бұрын

Unreal!!!

@photographingdestinations4130 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! 👍

@happy-trail_christickler_t3821 4 жыл бұрын

So sad i have so many memories as a child and adult now and i take my wife every chance i get nothing was better as a kid than waiting in traffic listening to the Tennessee football game on the radio as peyton cleaned house seeing all the shops and watching taffy made in front of your eyes if we could just go back to those days awwwwwwww what great memories

@kimmalone802 4 жыл бұрын

I had a birthday trip to Gatlinburg planned for this weekend. I'll be so glad when I actually get to go. This is just sad

@johnmcdaniel6769 4 жыл бұрын

YOU MAY BE CLOSED FOR NOW ,BUT IF I LIVE I WILL BE BACK. LOVE GATLINBURG,TENN.

@captinsnoochieboochie 4 жыл бұрын

WOW.....crazy was there in December it was crazy busy

@marycornett3165 4 жыл бұрын

It's busy like that almost year around I have family there and when we go to visit traffic is bumper to bumper takes about 45 minutes to get from one end of town to the other

@luke4428 4 жыл бұрын

Looks really nice and awfully clean!

@larryc8834 4 жыл бұрын

Now would be a good time to film a ton of stock footage and do a remake of "Where Have All the People Gone?"

@sandraphelps1475 4 жыл бұрын

Larry Choate i love the music

@kentrowell9678 4 жыл бұрын

It breaks my heart to see a place that I dearly love so empty! I know it is necessary but it is shocking and sobering to see it this way!

@smoky-mountains 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@adelewatkins9386 4 жыл бұрын

That is insane

@margieeades48 4 жыл бұрын

God be with us all 🌹

@ronc3348 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy! I have my vacation planned for May 22nd through June 1st in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg hopefully everything is good by then.

@urofseron 4 жыл бұрын

Stay away

@ronc3348 4 жыл бұрын

@@urofseron I will make sure when I'm there to sh!t on your lawn.

@urofseron 4 жыл бұрын

Ron C Cool story stupid.

@hdd5198 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. It has changed so much since I was there many, many years ago. Would love to go back, and see all the changes. Don't think I could do all the up and down hill walking now though. Kinda makes me sad.

@Greencoachdog 4 жыл бұрын

It's for a good reason... stay at home saves lives!!!

@stephennorthcutt8874 3 жыл бұрын

Sad, I love going to Gatlinburg. Hope we can get past all this Covid crap soon.

@rachelm6744 3 жыл бұрын

We go here every December for our anniversary and stay at the Bear Skin Lodge. It’s a tradition now. This town depends on all of us. We love it. It will come back. We will be there in December 2020. 🥰 Most places are coming back to life.. more so if it’s a Republican run state or city. Thank goodness! 🙏

@michellegrooms5535 4 жыл бұрын

your awesome for doing this? its scary not to see people there ? i get it that we all have to stay home? gatlinburg is my favorite place to see it empty thats not how it should be? be safe ( gatlinburg strong) we will get through this? keep doing amazing things?

@richardzinc9108 4 жыл бұрын

Let's hope that everything reopens in 2 months from now.

@Ultim0Studios 3 жыл бұрын

This didn't age well

@Jukies74 4 жыл бұрын

any idea on how gatlinburg especially sevierville is doing?

@crazyrussiankid2865 4 жыл бұрын

I'm going there this summer I hope it's done by then

@Senegal01 4 жыл бұрын

That is so sad, been there many times, and family from NC was suppose to be visiting us in NY this week of 4/13/20 and then we all were going to Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge for the week! That all sure went to hell, and I was taking my drone to fly.

@laurenw281 4 жыл бұрын

Gatlinburg is my second home this makes me wanna cry🥺 so sad 😭💔

@smoky-mountains 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@tawnywhyte4785 4 жыл бұрын

I use too live here for 5 years and a week before Easter and this pretty the streets would be packed and you have to wait to be seated at Budda Gumps, YOu have to try the Mushorrom pizza joint its to die for.... after a;;l this is over try both places. Gatlinburg was my home, and it makes me sad to see all the places closed. I miss it so much. I cry all the time I left the hills of the Great Smokey Mountain.,

@hands_on_adventures 4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@raymondsloan734 4 жыл бұрын

Good B-role for Zombie movie

@pgt1974 3 жыл бұрын

You talking about weird! Drove through there during this time.

@errolstafford3509 4 жыл бұрын

I was there 2 weeks ago and most attractions was closed but the streets weren’t that dead. 😱

@cameronblevins305 4 жыл бұрын

So nice to not be looking at a damn tourist for once. You can actually drive somewhere!

@kenturner2946 4 жыл бұрын

Lately on SportsCenter I've been watching a lot of sports oldies on greatest moments in sports and they show all sports basketball,football,hockey ,baseball but if you want to see something that's really truly great like you seen in this video of Tennessee just think of what God can do,but to the whole world in the flick of wrist,that something that's truly amazing !people we need to start putting things in perspective on what's really important to us and that would be in my opinion treating people as equals not just in your town or city but across the world and maybe if we get out of this be a lesson learned!!!! God bless

@lowcountryhdrider7644 4 жыл бұрын

A real ghost town. Sad to see!

@brycestrong8195 4 жыл бұрын

Very well done. I like the 'somber' selection of music given the nature of the video, it was very fitting. Looks like you had some pretty good altitude at points in the video specifically from 2:43 onward...how high did you creep up to?

@mattcrossfield3528 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love your drone coverage of Gatlinburg. What kind of drone are you flying? I have a Mavic Air 2 and even for that, I don't know if I could get the video you did on this! Amazing!

@jeffreyyeip1915 4 жыл бұрын

How did you video with absolutely no traffic? I'm in Pigeon Forge and the traffic is light but there is traffic. Not completely void of traffic light your videos are showing

@09261950 4 жыл бұрын

What time of the day do you shoot these videos?

@2cool4air 4 жыл бұрын

Sharing on my Facebook profile... Hopefully you'll get some more views.

@Rockzilla404 4 жыл бұрын

This is really sad. I'll never forget asking a shop keeper where Jim and Tammy Fay Baker lived once when I was there. He said step outside and look up on the mountain. The largest house you see is where they live.

@kevinprendergast5636 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! 😥

@ibrahimnasser3545 4 жыл бұрын

Soo sad to see Gatlingsburg like that , its the second home for me

@c.c.deville1720 4 жыл бұрын

Remind me of the pandemic movie I Am Legend with Will Smith LOL

@DigitalDavid07 4 жыл бұрын

It's booming again.

@chadchoate 4 жыл бұрын

Is everything still lit up at night?

@urofseron 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@theunsophisticatedplatypus4685 4 жыл бұрын

I use to go to movies to see this. I don’t want to anymore. This is sickening.

@exposethenwo6491 4 жыл бұрын

That is certainly the case these days.

@southernload5710 4 жыл бұрын

Love it! I've had it up to my neck in people pollution and traffic congestion, hurry here, scurry there. About time all our foolishness came to a grinding halt. Its time the earth began to heal and start to restore itself from all the trash pollution, building pollution & chemicals that filthy humanity has dumped upon it. Stop the insanity and it has for now! Hoping everything looks like 1960 soon

@tawnywhyte4785 4 жыл бұрын

This is going to be the case for the next few months, and I have to tell you that even when it reopen at lot of places will close all together cause they cannot make it.

@jonathancompton3897 4 жыл бұрын

On june 10th the quarantine will be over!

@tevjun8856 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t live in TN but I go to PF/GB a lot and this makes me sad as fuck...I hope Yamacon still happens in Dec bc I got every year 🥺💓

@wandatreece3419 4 жыл бұрын

Spooky

@LaRennEstherTV1985 4 жыл бұрын

This just a vacation for the World.. God is still God no matter what. Even though some are hurting but God is till blessing us . He will never leave us nor forsake us... He is still moving. Have Faith because it's almost over

@jessicastancombe1871 4 жыл бұрын

This makes me feel sad.

@lisabarnes4445 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to go after opening just gonna wait awhile to be safe.also I'm not wearing all that to be safe

@patriciaarold1270 4 жыл бұрын

OMG!!! It is so sad looking at this video and not seeing people walking around Gatlinburg. Nobody! Absolutely nobody! I’ve been to Gatlinburg, along with Pigeon Forge, and have put up with friendly people walking and looking and shopping and eating. One can only hope that the Coronavirus will be over with soon and the Smokies can get back to a more normal time and place. I want to hope that the people can get their jobs back and get back to normal. Hopefully soon!

@jeannesdroneventures6078 4 жыл бұрын

I had the same idea and was up there flying yesterday and a police officer approached me to tell me there was a city ordinance that you can’t be at a stay in place. Lucky you didn’t get caught. When were you there? It’s was so sad driving up to Pigeon Forge with all the stores closed and Gatlinburg which is normally packed like Disney world every day with practically no one on the streets or driving in cars.

@marycornett3165 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's crazy times right now I'm not a saved Christian but I do believe in Jesus Christ just think about this this is the first time ever your kids can't celebrate Easter in public like egg hunts the Christian people can't go to church and honor God on the day he risen from the dead the book of revaluation is being filled day after day

@jeannesdroneventures6078 4 жыл бұрын

Mary Cornett yes these are crazy times. But I believe I can pray at home. God hears our prayers no matter where we are. Stay strong 😌

@amywalker3267 4 жыл бұрын

Mary Cornett All you have to do to be a saved Christian is ask Jesus to come into your heart and save you. Just say that out loud or in your head it doesn’t matter. It’s that simple! Believe that he was born from a virgin, was crucified on the cross for our sins and raised from the dead three days later. Much love to you from Kentucky

@marycornett3165 4 жыл бұрын

@@amywalker3267 what part of ky you from

@amywalker3267 4 жыл бұрын

Mary Cornett Southeastern Kentucky, I live outside of Barbourville.

@gidgetfox8638 4 жыл бұрын

We come at least 2xs a month even if we just drive threw. I miss my Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge

@brandonwalters9437 4 жыл бұрын

It’s time to open the economy back up. Yeah not in some areas of course but overall the models have been way off and it’s ok to say, we prepared for the worst and stats are showing the models were worst case scenario times a lot.

@mgreg8134 4 жыл бұрын

At 1:10 you ran a red light dude. Just sayin

@katdadi1 4 жыл бұрын

How, it's a drone. 😂😂😂

@oliviatrisler3369 4 жыл бұрын

I was going to go but I can't because covid-19

@pbinion70301 4 жыл бұрын

Every town looks like this now. What have we let Big Brother do to us??????

@pbinion70301 4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Hendrix Maybe where you live you still have choices, but where I live, we do not. No church. No restaurants. No parks. Only limited shopping. I am elderly and have underlying health risks so I am limiting my exposure, but that IS my choice. Destroying small businesses by forcing them to close is NOT a choice.

@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil 4 жыл бұрын

I like seeing Gatlinburg from the air, but how about music that isn't so sad - it's sad enough as it is. :-(

@MMRBKane Жыл бұрын

Why do I like it empty?

@dave-o3674 28 күн бұрын

It looks like North Korea during COVID

@davidmullins4346 4 жыл бұрын

This is not accurate. There is very little foot traffic, but dozens of cars at this very minute

@rebelmetal4233 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the most depressing video of all time...

@Lukefoster89 4 жыл бұрын

So surreal!! Liked & Subscribed! 😁 I am using the Mavic 2 Zoom! I have some drone videos on my channel if it's of any interest as well as some diving videos!?

@ladonnadavis8710 4 жыл бұрын

This should not be happening. You know how many of those businesses are going to go under? I don't know if there's any one answer but we can't go on like this. I guess we're just going to have to make up our minds on the weather we want to stay behind closed doors or go live our lives. After May 1st I'm going to go live my life. What say you

@kakarote2277 4 жыл бұрын

We’re watching the death of businesses all over America. The hardest hit will be vacation destinations. Whose sole income is based on certain seasons of the year. First the massive fire that happened to Gatlinburg, now this? I sure hope this dosent bring upon this town irreparable-damage to its economy.