GatlinBURGER Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is GatlinBURGER Week in Gatlinburg?

GatlinBURGER Week is a burger vote that Visit Gatlinburg runs on its own event site for the Gatlinburg tourism market in Tennessee. The vote is for a favorite burger from the participating restaurants, and the event page describes the week as a chance to eat burgers from top local restaurants across the Smoky Mountains. The voting link in this guide points to that event page.

The event is a food-led program rather than a sports or business award. The page also mentions special deals and events alongside the burgers, but the vote itself is the Vote for Your Favorite Burger section.

When is the GatlinBURGER Week vote held?

The dated facts for the event are clear for 2026. The event page states that voters can vote between September 11 and 18, 2026, and it confirms the earlier 2025 edition as well. Those two editions are the only ones the page confirms, so readers planning a visit should treat the September window as the reference point.

The page prints no prize value for the random draw, so the size of the prize is not stated here. The prize value is not printed in the text; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The 2026 dates are the only ones the page prints for voting, so they are the ones to use when planning a vote around the event.

How does a supporter vote for a favorite burger today?

Voting is a simple public choice made on the Visit Gatlinburg website. A supporter opens the event page, finds the Vote for Your Favorite Burger section, and submits a single choice tied to one email address. The page describes one vote per email, which is the central rule for how a person takes part.

The event page also points to check-ins at participating locations in the Visit Gatlinburg app. Those check-ins are part of the wider event, and the page presents them as a separate step from the burger vote itself.

The event page names no separate paid step for the vote, and it prints no daily or hourly limit beyond the one vote per email rule. Supporters who want the full restaurant list should read the event page directly, since this page repeats only the rules the event prints.

Because the vote is tied to an email address, a supporter who shares the link with a group should remind each person to use a personal address. A household with one shared inbox would count as a single voter under the printed rule, so the group should plan its votes around that limit from the start.

How does this burger event sit beside other Tennessee votes?

The closest sibling is Chattanooga Burger Week, another food program in Tennessee. Several best-of votes also sit nearby. The Chattanooga newspaper's Best of the Best ballot, the Knoxville Cityview ballot, the CommunityVotes Chattanooga ballot, and the BroadwayWorld Memphis and Nashville awards each cover a different city and a different format.

GatlinBURGER Week differs from those best-of polls in two ways. It is a single food vote tied to one town, and its prize is a random draw rather than a ranked result. Readers who want a best-of ballot for a different city should use the sibling pages linked below, because each has its own window and rules.

How can a supporter back a favorite burger without breaking the rules?

The honest route is to tell friends about the event and let each of them vote once with their own email. The page's one vote per email rule is the limit that matters, and sharing the link does not change it.

Paid options exist online. The event page says nothing about them, and any decision to use one carries a risk that the organizer's rules may not allow. Before deciding, read the legal overview of buying votes, which explains why a purchase can conflict with a public vote even when the purchase itself is legal.

A supporter who wants a broader plan can start with the guide to getting more votes online, then read the event page's rules before sharing. For a service page, see the award votes page, which should be read alongside the same rules.