They have rental cars and Uber rides and endless number of places to stay,from hotels to cabin rentals. The airport is just to the north of everything. There is even a really nice aviation museum right on the field.
I'm a member of a Facebook group called Tennessee Pilots they published a flyout announcement in Feb. 2017, inviting all to attend we had 18 people flyin, we had a great time. I flew around looking for the burn area and never could find it. Hard to see it with everything brown. Never could tell while we were driving though Pigeon Forge.
Here is a link to an album from a recent visit:
https://goo.gl/photos/JfJpmH81Us8vp22Z6