The Easter holiday is a popular holiday for families and friends to get together and celebrate one of the most celebrated holidays. For many people Easter is a time for getting together and hunting Easter eggs or sharing Easter bunny stories but for some people Easter means more. For these people, Easter is a time for celebrating faith, hope and love. For the past nine years there has been an Easter Sunrise Service at Ober Gatlinburg ski resort. The annual Easter Sunrise Service will show you how truly blessed you are with the beauty of the Smoky Mountains surrounding you. The Easter Sunrise Service at Ober Gatlinburg will offer the community and its visitors a chance to worship together. This highly favored mountain top service will feature local pastors from the Gatlinburg Ministerial Association. The Easter Sunrise Service will begin at 7:00 am and continue for about thirty or forty minutes. The staff at Ober Gatlinburg is hosting the Easter Sunrise Service and will be providing free tram rides up the mountain. These tram rides will begin at 6:15 am and continue for fifteen minutes, until the service begins. If you prefer to drive up the mountain to Ober Gatlinburg then free parking will be available for you. The Ober Gatlinburg staff will be serving a breakfast buffet in the Ober Gatlinburg restaurant from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. This Easter Sunrise Service breakfast buffet will have many favorite breakfast foods including: omelets, French toast, pancakes, bacon, hash browns, biscuit, eggs, various types of cereals, and many choices of muffins. The breakfast buffet is available for a small fee of $6.95 for adults and $3.95 for all children ten and under. Make plans to visit Gatlinburg, Tennessee for the Easter Sunrise Service at Ober Gatlinburg ski resort on Sunday, March 23. This special service will touch your heart in a very special way.