Smoky Mountain National Park Historic Cabins

Townsend is like a peaceful mountain village where you ll see horseback riders on the side of the road children enjoying tubing down the lazy little river and canadian geese in a parking lot.

Smoky mountain national park historic cabins. John oliver s cabin cades cove s first and oldest cabin. If you hike the fighting creek nature trail in the national park you ll get to see this historic log cabin along with beautiful forest scenery and a mountain stream. Communities surrounding the national park offer a wide choice of accommodations including hotels cabins bed and breakfasts and campgrounds. Almost 80 historic structures have been preserved or rehabilitated in the park including houses barns outbuildings churches schools and grist mills.

Historic structures great smoky mountains national park has one of the best collections of log structures in the eastern us. Lodging available in towns surrounding the park there are no motels or rental cabins located within the national park other than le conte lodge. Choose from a variety of cabin sizes and amenities to find the one that best suits your group. John and lucretia oliver the original owners of the cabin were the first permanent white settlers in cades cove.

Cabin rentals in townsend tn many of our clean quiet and beautiful smoky mountain cabins lie at the foot of the great smoky mountain national park or near the crystal clear little pigeon river. History and culture lessons abound in the old homesteads mills and schoolhouses that remain in the smoky mountains. When you visit the smoky mountains national park one of the best places to stay is a smoky mountain cabin. The jim bales cabin on the roaring fork motor nature trail.

Great smoky mountains national park contains the largest collection of historic log buildings in the east most of which are in cades cove. Nine individual structures in the park are listed on the national register of historic places. The parking area for this cabin is immediately past sparks lane. All historic structures within the park are maintained under nrhp guidelines whether they are listed or not.

Read on for more about the gatlinburg tennessee historical sites that provide a window into the past for smoky mountain visitors. Over 90 historic structures houses barns outbuildings churches schools and grist mills have been preserved or rehabilitated in the park. Structures at cades cove roaring fork the noah ogle place and elkmont are part of u s. The john oliver historical cabin which is set back from cades cove loop road is the first historical structure you will come to.

The john ownby cabin which was built in 1860 was constructed from tulip trees white pine logs and clay mortar.