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In the Great Smoky Mountains, the Road to Nowhere once went somewhere

NPR | By Charlie Shelton-Ormond
Published October 4, 2026 at 7:06 AM CDT

It wasn't intended to be a "Road to Nowhere:" We hear the story behind a 1940's dam project in the North Carolina mountains and a tunnel that was left behind.

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