Pet-friendly Cabins in the Smokies

Learn the Rental Company's Lingo

• Cabin: A log-style home with rustic wood features, a deck, and decor ranging from country to contemporary.
• Chalet: Resembles a cottage or small home with drywall, not logs. These tend to be older, with A-frame roofs popular in the 1970s. Our research excluded these.
• Hot tub: A chlorinated, jetted tub sitting outside the cabin. Many have privacy screens to protect the modest.
• Whirlpool tub: A jetted bathtub that may be located in a bathroom, bedroom, or smack in the middle of the cabin. Sometimes red and heart-shaped.
• Private: You may see neighbors as you drive up, but once inside, you'll forget them. Newer cabins sit close, but you're not staring in the windows of the place next door.
• Secluded: No neighbors in sight. Relatively rare, these make it easy to feel far, far away.
• Handicapped accessible: Few cabins earn ADA approval, but some offer wide doorways, ramps, and wheelchair-friendly bathrooms.
• Pet friendly: Most rental companies have a few properties that allow pets, though they may restrict by type and size. Most require deposits and/or extra fees for pets. Some "deposits" are non-refundable.