Guests staying in the Tennessee Cabins at the Preserve Resort in the Smoky Mountains love to visit Cades Cove, the most popular part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The cabin guests at the Preserve Resort are not the only ones that love Cades Cove. Believe it or not, the Cades Cove area of the Smoky Mountains entertains over two million people each and every year. Not surprisingly that makes Cades Cove amongst the most heavily used recreation sites in the United States. Only sites like the Grand Canyon can compare in terms of sheer visitors per year. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is currently working out a management program meant to preserve the habitat of Cades Cover for future generations to enjoy. That is good news for the many tourists who go to Cades Cove and then stay in the cabins at the Preserve Resort.

Cades Cove Cabins:

The first cabins in Cades Cove were built by the pioneers with names like Oliver, Hyatt and Tipton. They first built their cabins just before a treaty was signed allowing European to settle Cades Cove. The first Cades Cove cabins were made of logs pioneers felled on the new land, were fashioned by hand and were of basic construction. Adding to the number of cabins in Cades Cove were the honeymoon cabins pioneers built near their original cabins. Why? Youth married young in those days and it was common for families with children coming of age to build honeymoon cabins, which they dubbed, honeymoon houses. That way the younger generation could still provide help to the older family while becoming strong and prosperous enough to afford to buy separate land on which to build their more permanent Cades Cove cabin. As more children grew up in the large families of the day, the honeymoon cabin would become available again for the next child of marriage age.

Fishing Cabins: Hospitable people at heart, cove residents let strangers sleep on the porches of their Cades Cove cabins when visiting the cove on a fishing trip. Some of the cabins in Cades Cove had their porches closed in to provide better shelter for the guests. Much later in Cades Cove history, well before the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, fishing cabins were built for people who were from out of town. When the national park was established, only a few residents remained in the Cades Cove cabins, most of which had long since been covered over with clapboards to better resemble the more elegant houses in town.

Today, there is road that winds through the valley allowing Smoky Mountain tourists an opportunity to see the original Cades Cove cabins. Many of the guests staying in the Tennessee cabins at the Preserve Resort say their tour of the Cades Cove cabins was the best part of their Smoky Mountain vacation.

Stay in our Tennessee Cabins and learn about Cades Cove. So what exactly is Cades Cove?
Cades Cove is over 6,800 acres of fertile valley and before the park was created, was home to many residents that lived in some of the first cabins in Tennessee. The valley supports a broad variety of animals and plants. The floor of the valley is made up of over 2,400 acres of open field terrain that is bordered by forestlands. At present, an environmental restoration process is going on- a process designed to restore and protect wetlands and the native grass population in the area. The uniqueness of the Cades Cove area makes it a priority in terms of preservation efforts.

Cades Cove is not only famous for its Smoky Mountain natural beauty. Cades Cove is also home to manmade structures such as the Smoky Mountain cabins mentioned above, as well as an original gristmill from the 1800’s. There are so many interesting things for our cabin guests that stay in a Tennessee cabin at the Preserve Resort. There are numerous old-fashioned Smoky Mountain homes and church buildings. All newer buildings were removed years ago so that the Cades Cove area would stand as a testament to the cultural and natural history of the Great Smoky Mountains. Come and enjoy all Cades Cove and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have to offer and stay in a rental cabin at the Preserve Resort.

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