This beautiful 2 story lodge sleeps up to 30 guests! Bring your group to Bear Lodge on "the peaceful side of the Smokies"! Featuring 5 bedrooms with private bathrooms, large fully equipped kitchen, dining room with enough seating for 30, spacious living room with vaulted ceilings, 2 gas stone fireplaces, meeting space, game tables, & more! Welcome to Tuckaleechee Retreat Center, a Christian non-profit, which is home to the National Office for Children's Bible Ministries, Inc. We offer seven cabins/lodges of varying sizes, sleeping from 2-40 guests! The main lodge features a beautiful saltwater pool, which is available to all of our guests, open Memorial Day through Labor Day. All cabins have fully equipped kitchens, grills, hot tubs, and gas fireplaces (Firefly Lodge has an electric fireplace). Bed and bath linens are also provided! Activities available to all of our guests include the shared saltwater pool, corn hole, and fire pit. Bear Lodge offers five bedrooms, each with one queen bed and two sets of twin bunkbeds. Each bedroom has its own private bath. There is a large, fully equipped kitchen (two stoves, two dishwashers, two refrigerators, and plenty of prep space, pots/pans, plus silverware, utensils, etc.), and a large dining room with 3 farmhouse-style tables. Adjacent to the dining room is a spacious family room with dual-sided gas fireplace (available October through April) and Roku Cable TV/DVD. Downstairs is a second living room with dual-sided gas fireplace (available October through April), flat screen Cable TV/DVD, pool table, carpetball table, piano, and common space for meetings or just hanging out. There is also a washer/dryer downstairs in the laundry room. Both top and bottom levels have decks overlooking the mountains. Enjoy the mountain view from the rocking chairs on the top deck. Relax in the hot tub on the lower level outdoor patio. Bear Lodge is the perfect place for your family reunion, men's, women's, or youth retreat, and so much more! Parking area holds 10-12 cars. Additional parking space is available at the office, about 1/4 mile away. Please Note: The driveway to Bear Lodge is steep and windy - 4 switchbacks up from our check-in office. Vehicles over the size of a 15 passenger van will not easily make it up the driveway and around the final corner. A large bus could park in our main parking lot by our office - please pre-arrange with guest services before arrival. ASK ABOUT OUR PASTORS' AND FULL-TIME CHRISTIAN WORKERS' SPECIALS FOR THIS CABIN!!! This cabin is in Townsend, TN which a peaceful town right beside the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, one of the few free national parks in the U.S.!! We are nestled on the side of Little Mountain, overlooking the beautiful Dry Valley and Rich Mountain, where serenity abounds! Townsend provides delicious restaurants, several options for river tubing, souvenir and antique shopping, museums, caverns, horseback riding, and more! The National Park has endless opportunities for hiking, biking, fishing, picnics, and viewing wildlife. A favorite is the Cades Cove Loop Rd which is 11 miles of scenery with wildlife in its natural habitat. Just a short 30 minutes away, is Pigeon Forge, home of Dollywood and many fun tourist attractions and shopping options. Gatlinburg, located right beside Pigeon Forge, offers a wide range of attractions and shopping for the whole family! Our online travel guide (link provided with the guest agreement after you book) offers our top recommendations for catering, restaurants, shopping, attractions, etc. We also offer a Welcome Book in each of our cabins/lodges with the same information. Contact our office to ask about discount tickets that may currently be available! All of our staff live on the property, so although our office hours are Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm, we are always just a phone call or text away! We love e-mail and social media, and we love to get to know all of our guests! We offer the opportunity for a full-property tour for all who are interested! Located just outside of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend offers all of the great family activities such as tubing, hiking, biking, picnicing, horseback riding, and much more! Townsend has been coined "the peaceful side of the Smokies," as it is so close to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge (30-45 minutes), but not in the "center" of all the action. We are nestled on the side of the mountain, overlooking beautiful Dry Valley and Rich Mountain, where serenity abounds! Tennessee sales and lodging taxes total 14.75%. Our policies do not allow us to host wedding ceremonies on our property. Guest will be required to sign Tuckaleechee Retreat Center's rental agreement after the booking is confirmed, which includes the rules and policies for our property including our no pets and no alcohol policy.