Thursday we woke up, left the cabin, and then drove to the AppleBarn - it's a huge place with restaurants, shops, etc… all about apples! We bought some apple pancakes mix, apple butter, etc, Molly had apple cobbler. We then started the LONG road home - about 10 hours in drive time.

The cabin we got was through VRBO and was very nice. I wish we had gotten a little more time to spend in the cabin itself. It was on Ski Mountain - fairly high up above Gatlinburg. It was a split level cabin. The main level had a kitchen, bathroom with stand up shower, living area, dining area, foosball and pool tables, pull-out sofa, and back patio. Upstairs from there was a loft, with a loveseat and a chair that both had pull-out sleepers. Downstairs was a large master suite, with a king size bed, huge Jacuzzi tub, and master bathroom, as well as a laundry room. Outside from the master bedroom, was a glassed in sitting area, and then outside of that was an outdoor deck with a covered hottub. It was too hot to ever use the hottub but it was nice to have as an option. Having the kids basically two floors away from us - with several exterior doors between - was a concern, and the kids ended up sleeping on the floor of the master bedroom. If the kids were older, this would have been no big deal. But something to keep in mind if you book a cabin like this.

The only downfall of the cabin, was we had to drive everywhere, down the mountain, into town. There is very, very little street parking in the main area of Gatlinburg - there are a ton of parking lots available, the vast majority of which charged $5, cash only, for all-day parking (but no in and out). The cabin was super nice and I would recommend anyone going to look at this as an option. Having already done that, I think our next trip we may look at once of the nicer suite-type hotels on or close to Parkway.

There is one grocery store we found - Food City - which is somewhat on the way out of town.

This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 11:39 am