I love the designs of the original Gatlinburg chalets & cabins, Somewhere in Time is an A-Frame design. I was so thrilled to find an A-frame since my Daddy had built a small A-frame on his lot close to Ky Lake years before & that brought back such wonderful memories.
It Is surrounded by beautiful mature trees of the Smoky Mountains & has an ever-running creek that you can see & hear from the chalet 24 hours a day.
Setting high above Ski Mountain Road makes this location so convenient & just perfect for visiting Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge & Sevierville. Shopping, restaurants, events, activities & sight-seeing is just 2 miles away in the very unique town of Gatlinburg.
Just turn right out of the driveway & you will be in downtown Gatlinburg & at the entrance of Great Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few minutes. When going to Pigeon Forge, take the Gatlinburg ByPass to miss all the downtown Gatlinburg traffic.
Now for the most fun way to go to downtown Gatlinburg & leave the driving & parking issues behind, just turn left out of the driveway, go a mile on the same road & dead-end into Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort, park & hop on the glassed-in Arial Tram. It holds 120 people & leaves & returns every 20 minutes from early till late every day. This will give you spectacular birds-eye views of the area & downtown Gatlinburg.. There are trolleys downtown that will take you to various parts of the area.
Bonus is a market/deli next door with groceries, home-made pizza, burgers, beer, beverages. It is so handy to just walk down the driveway steps & be right in the market's parking lot. If you forget that bottle of ketchup, you won't even have to get in the car, just walk down the steps. How convenient is that!
Ski Mountain Road is known for often seeing bears. I watched them almost daily when working on the chalet in the summer of 2017. Many of my guests are thrilled to see the bears & often send me pictures of them in the driveway. I love that!