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Left : A relic of Thunder Road , near Lake City , Tennessee . Above : Litton ’ s Restaurant has been a Knoxville institution since 1946 . Right : Want some fries with your Thunder Road Burger ?
week . Their signature Thunder Road version comes with pimento cheese , grilled onion and a jalapeno pepper . After devouring the half-pound burger and fries , I had no room left to try a delicious-looking dessert from the on-premises bakery , but I sure was tempted .
Firing up the Road King , I headed north on U . S . 441 / State Route 33 , then turned east on State Route 131 and north on State Route 61 . I rode through the small towns of Luttrell and Maynardville , enjoying the curvy rural roads , imagining what it must have been like for moonshiners playing cat-and-mouse with revenue agents . The hills and hairpins must have made for some hair-raising pursuits . After a few more twists and turns , I stopped