Trail's End: Mountain-View Cabin on 64-Acre Horse Farm + Private Hot Tub

For a few days, make our farm your own.

Trail's End is a private, bright and airy cabin with the best mountain view of any cabin at Country Manor Acres, our family's 64-acre working horse farm and wedding estate in Townsend, Tennessee.

You'll have your own private cabin, decks and hot tub—but the cabin is only part of what you're coming here for.

At Country Manor Acres, we have a different measure of luxury.

Some of the most valuable parts of our property are the acres we've chosen not to build on.

Our accommodations are intentionally scattered across the estate because we believe open space has value. It gives our horses pasture, our guests room to wander, our children room to explore, and all of us something that's becoming increasingly difficult to find: room to breathe.

Walk the trails through woods and open fields. Wander down to the stables and visit the horses. Meet the animals at the petting farm. Bring a fishing pole to the catch-and-release pond, or take the shared guest boat out on the water with the provided oars and paddles. Explore the gardens. When the season is right, keep an eye out for wild blackberries, blueberries and mulberries growing around the property.

Private guided horseback rides are available for an additional charge by advance appointment, as are horse-drawn wagon and carriage experiences. We intentionally limit the number of rides we offer because we don't believe in overusing our horses—or our land.

Our shared estate fire pit near the Country Manor Acres office is also available to lodging guests, and the view from there is one of our favorites on the property.

And you don't have to schedule every minute.

Watch the horses. Take the boat out on the pond. Walk a trail with nowhere particular to go. Find a rocking chair. Sit around the fire. Watch the mountains change with the evening light.

Then, after dark, step outside and look up.

Away from the glow of the city, clear nights reveal a sky filled with stars—the kind of night sky many of us have almost forgotten exists.

TRAIL'S END

Trail's End combines rustic Smoky Mountain warmth with a bright, open interior and the best mountain view of any of our cabins.

Set above our lower pastures, the cabin looks across open land toward the Smoky Mountains. Enjoy that view from the front deck, side deck and private hot tub.

Inside, a beautiful overhead skylight brings natural light into the open sleeping loft and helps give Trail's End the bright, airy feeling that has made it one of our most popular accommodations.

Wood interiors and a tall stacked-stone wood-burning fireplace retain the warmth and rustic character of a Smoky Mountain cabin, while the skylight and open architecture keep the space feeling light and open.

THE LAYOUT

The main level includes the kitchen and dining area, full bathroom with tub/shower combination, and an open living area centered around the stacked-stone fireplace.

A queen sleeper sofa in the living room provides sleeping space for one child.

Above the living area is an open sleeping loft with a king bed.

The loft is open to the room below rather than being separated by a conventional bedroom wall and door. A real overhead skylight brings additional natural light into the loft and cabin.

Trail's End is intentionally limited to a maximum of two adults, with room for one child on the queen sleeper sofa.

The full bathroom is downstairs on the main level.

Approximately eight exterior steps lead down from the parking/approach level to the cabin, and an interior staircase leads up to the king sleeping loft.

OUTSIDE

Trail's End is very private, with decks designed to take advantage of what we believe is the best view from any of our cabins.

Settle into a rocking chair, look across the lower pastures toward the mountains, or enjoy the same outlook from your private hot tub.

LIFE ON THE FARM

Country Manor Acres is our home as well as our family business.

This isn't a remotely managed vacation-rental development. The people you see working around the farm are the family who lives here.

You may see Nicole working with the horses, Jeff driving the wagon or maintaining the property, April mowing or tending to something around the farm, our children playing near the barn, chickens wandering where chickens please, or our dog happily following another trail ride.

Nothing has been staged for your arrival.

That's simply life here—and for the time you're with us, you're welcome to be part of it.

We love meeting our guests and helping you experience the property, but we also respect your privacy.

Think of us as nearby when you want us—and out of the way when you don't.

There is life here, but rarely a crowd.

We've intentionally kept the number of accommodations small for 64 acres. You might walk a trail without seeing another person and later meet another family fishing at the pond or enjoying the fire.

It's privacy without isolation.

A WORKING HORSE FARM & WEDDING ESTATE

Country Manor Acres is also a wedding estate, which is one reason so much care goes into preserving the landscape.

The fields, gardens and mountain views couples choose for their wedding photographs are the same surroundings our lodging guests enjoy every day. Depending on when you visit, you might even look across the farm and catch a glimpse of a wedding taking place on a distant hillside.

The wedding estate and horse farm have shaped the way we care for this land.

We could build more accommodations.

We could run more trail rides.

We've chosen not to.

We believe some things become more valuable when they aren't overused.

LESS THAN TWO MINUTES FROM TOWNSEND

Perhaps the biggest surprise is how close all of this is to town.

Country Manor Acres is less than two minutes from downtown Townsend's restaurants, shops and everyday conveniences and only minutes from the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Spend the morning exploring the Smokies. Float or kayak the Little River. Grab lunch in town. Head toward Cades Cove. Or bicycle approximately half a mile from the farm to connect with Townsend's paved bicycle trail.

Then turn back down our gravel road and feel as though you've left the busy world behind.

You don't have to go far away to get away.

A DIFFERENT MEASURE OF LUXURY

Our roads are gravel, and country life comes with nature. You may encounter insects, wildlife, leaves, pollen, dust, changing weather and the occasional muddy spot after a Tennessee rain.

We consider those part of being in the country rather than flaws in the experience.

If your idea of luxury includes 64 acres to explore, the best mountain view of any of our cabins, horses in the pasture, a sky full of stars, room to wander, and a place that hasn't been polished until its character disappeared, you may find that Country Manor Acres offers something much harder to find.

Some of the most valuable parts of this property are the acres we've chosen not to build on.

Open space isn't wasted space.

It's part of the luxury.

This isn't a resort designed to resemble the Smoky Mountains.

This is life in the Smoky Mountains.

And for a few days, this is your farm too.