New Buc-ee’s located at entrance to Great Smoky Mountains, has opening date

Tennessee’s new Buc-ee’s has an opening date.

Buc-ee’s in Sevierville, Tennessee will open to the public June 5, KnoxNews.com reported. The location is right off Interstate 40 at Exit 407 at the main entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains and on the route for tourists making their way to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville.

The store will be 74,000 feet and will, for at least a short time, be the largest Buc-ee’s location. It will soon be surpassed by a Buc-ee’s location at Luling, Texas that will come in at an eye-popping 75,000 square feet.

The Sevierville location will have 120 gas pumps, 22 electric vehicle stations and a 250-foot car wash. Traditional Buc-ee’s favorites, such as beef brisket sandwiches and Beaver Nuggets, will be found inside.

Buc-ee’s, a Texas-based institution that started in 1982, opened its first travel station outside the Lone Star State at Interstate 10 and the Baldwin Beach Express in Alabama on Jan. 21, 2019.