Step 1: Register
2026 DRIVER REGISTRATION
The 2026 EVENT HAS SOME BIG IMPROVEMENTS TO ELEVATE THE ALREADY AMAZING EXPERIENCE!
The 2026 event will again be at the Fontana Village Resort, so the whole group can be together at the same venue! This event is held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 26th through 28th, 2025 at the Fontana Village Resort, just 10 miles from the Tail of the Dragon. .
For 2026 we will have a catered Welcome Dinner on Friday night, so we will all eat together as a group in the Event Hall. This will be another opportunity to meet other attendees and an opportunity for giveaways from our vendors and sponsors. For 2025 we had several passengers ask for event shirts, so this Passenger Registration will include an event shirt and a wristband to allow access to the Welcome Dinner for your passenger. .
The Fontana Village Resort is a full-service resort with a huge parking lot, several restaurants, a hotel lodge and 135 cabins on their property. We will stage in their huge parking lot based on your Drive Group, which will be assigned prior to the event. We will meet in the Event Hall of the resort each morning for our Driver Meeting Our registration check-in is on Thursday, June 25th from 5-8pm. We will spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday driving the unbelievable roads of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. We will cover the Tail of the Dragon, Cherohala Skyway, Hellbender, Moonshiner 28 and many other mountain roads you will not experience anywhere else! The approximate drive time will be 6 hours on Friday, 6 hours Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday, so be prepared to drive! At the conclusion of the daily drives we have social gatherings so you can talk about your Bimmers and drives with your new enthusiast friends!
Must be 18 years old or older to drive.
Must provide valid Driver’s License and Proof of Insurance
PASSENGER(S) IS NOT INCLUDED AND MUST BE PURCHASED FOR $50 EACH (passenger will receive Event Shirt and access to the Welcome Dinner)
JUNE 26th-28th, 2026
(THIS IS A BMW -ONLY EVENT) (if you don’t have a BMW, go to smokymountaindrives.com for our all-car events)
Includes=
Access to Driver’s Meetings and printed maps for your guided drives
Guided drives based on your desired pace for three days and over 600 miles through the best roads in the US.
Unlimited access to photo library from our personal event photographer. These will include the photos from the Killboy tents on the Tail of the Dragon on Friday and from our personal event photographer that drives our routes with us. (Photos from their site are typically $9 each)
2026 Mvading the Dragon t-shirt
Access to our catered Welcome Dinner and Bonfire Party
Mvading the Dragon Windshield Banner
This is a rain or shine event! Registration can be cancelled with a refund, minus a 15% processing fee, when done so more than six weeks out from the event date. If you need to cancel within six weeks of the event, you will be given a credit towards a future event, that must be redeemed within a calendar year.. Within two weeks of the event, no refund nor credit will be given.
Step 2: add your passenger
PASSENGER(S) IS NOT INCLUDED AND MUST BE PURCHASED FOR $50 EACH (passenger will receive Event Shirt and access to the Welcome Dinner)
In addition to Driver Registration, this Includes=
2026 Mvading the Dragon t-shirt for your passenger
Access to our catered Welcome Dinner and Bonfire Party for your passenger
This is a rain or shine event! Registration can be cancelled with a refund, minus a 15% processing fee, when done so more than six weeks out from the event date. If you need to cancel within six weeks of the event, you will be given a credit towards a future event, that must be redeemed within a calendar year.. Within two weeks of the event, no refund nor credit will be given.