Tennessee Cabins Near Smoky Mountain National Park

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a tourist destination known across the world and you can enjoy them best when staying in a Tennessee cabin at the Preserve Resort. In fact the United Nations has named the Great Smoky Mountains National Park an “International Biosphere.” The Smoky Mountain National Park won this honor partially because of its beautiful mountains and wide diversity of plant and animal life. Guests staying in cabins at the Preserve Resort get a close look at the same type of plant and animal life that grace the mountains of the national park.

Yes, vacationers staying in one of our Smoky Mountain cabin rentals can enjoy the numerous animal species that make their Tennessee Cabins - Home in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Our cabin guests can enjoy over 200 bird species, 66 mammals, 43 species of amphibians and 39 reptile species. Among these species are pileated woodpecker, deer, bear, elk and 50 different fish populations. For those wanting a cabin near the fishing streams of the Smoky Mountains, Preserve Resort cabins are close to the national park where fishing includes small mouth bass and trout. Fishing in the Smoky Mountains.

It is not just a diverse number of animals that makes the Smoky Mountains so famous as a cabin rental destination. It is also the beautiful flora. Trees of cover almost every contour of the Smoky Mountain terrain and views from our rental cabins are just phenomenal. In addition, nearly 95% of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is covered in trees. Among the 100 or so native tree species found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, many are “old growth" trees of great size. That is not all. The entire mountain region of Tennessee provides natural habitat for more tree species than any other area in North America, a gorgeous background for anyone seeking a Smoky Mountain cabin rental. Besides the trees, there are over 1400 flowering plant species and 4,000 species of non-flowering plants now inhabiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All are enjoyed by guests staying in our cabin rentals each day of the year. We hope you and your family will stay in our cabins and enjoy the Smoky Mountain flora as well.

Smoky Mountain popularity as a backdrop for rental cabins has resulted because of the beauty of the mountains and the vast diversity of plant and animal life. How did this happen? As for the Smoky Mountains and its species, during the last major ice age, creeping ice sheets forced animals and species from the north into the Smoky Mountains. These species found habitat in the higher elevations of the Park that mimicked their original Tennessee Cabins - Home environments. Those species more typically used to a southern climate found habitat at the base of the Smoky Mountains. So it is the diversity in elevation in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the onset of the last ice age that accounts for the diversity of life now enjoyed by tourists enjoying the Tennessee cabins offered by the Preserve Resort.

Look at the Smoky Mountains from the vantage point of a Tennessee Cabin rental. Notice the mountains are rounded off on the top. Believe it or not the Smoky Mountains were once as jagged and high as the Rocky Mountains to the Western part of the continent. The major reason why this is no longer the case is the age of the Smoky Mountains, amongst the oldest in the world. This length of history has also served to increase the diversity of plant and animal life that now exists in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can learn more about the Smoky Mountains when you stay in The Preserve Resorts Tennessee cabins.