Glamping in Tennessee

Camp Leconte Luxury Outdoor Resort

18 RV Sites, 5 Tent Sites, 7 Glamping Sites, 2 Treehouses, 3 Vintage RV Rentals

Camp LeConte Luxury Outdoor Resort in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, offers 21 RV sites, two treehouses, seven glamping sites, and five tent sites four miles from downtown, with 20, 30, and 50-amp full hookups, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 42 feet. Named retro campers — Glamping at Tiffany's, Miss Daisy, and The Ruby Slipper — join European safari tents in a curated lodging mix. Twenty-one sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp in back-in and pull-through configurations, sized to 42 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, BBQ pits, cable TV, and site WiFi. Note the 42-foot cap before booking a larger rig. The lodging is the distinguishing feature: two treehouses, seven glamping units including European safari tents, and the three named retro campers give guests genuinely unusual options in a corridor where most properties offer standard cabins. An outdoor pool and hot tub anchor the warm months, with a playground, pavilion, and ping pong on the grounds. The mountain setting and creek nearby round it out, with birding productive across the property. Pets are welcome. Gatlinburg's downtown Parkway is four miles away, with Great Smoky Mountains National Park access adjacent and the full Smoky Mountain entertainment and dining infrastructure within minutes. An amusement park and wine tasting are nearby. The resort has run since 2013 as a family-owned boutique property. Summer and October foliage drive the heaviest demand in one of the most visited tourist corridors in the country — reserve well ahead for both.

Camp Riverslanding

63 RV Sites, 1 Glamping Site, 7 Onsite RV/Trailers, 1 House

Camp Riverslanding in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, offers 71 full-hookup back-in RV sites, a house, and a glamping site on the Little Pigeon River, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 50 feet. Riverside Signature and premium categories join named RV rentals, with a heated pool, splash pad, community fire pit, and library. Seventy-one back-in sites run in 30/50-amp premium and 30/50-amp riverside Signature categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. The riverside Signature sites put you directly on the water — the reason most guests book here. Named RV rentals including The Hideaway and Bear Tracks, a house, and a glamping site round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A heated pool and splash pad anchor the summer, with a game room, recreation center, barn, library, playground, community fire pit, dog park, horseshoes, corn hole, and on-site dining filling the rest. Fishing, swimming, picnicking, and planned activities round it out, and the property operates as a wedding venue. Directions from Knoxville: take I-40 east toward Asheville, exit 407 toward Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Pigeon Forge, right onto Winfield Dunn Parkway/Highway 66 south for about nine miles, then right. The property sits among the trees on the river a few miles from Dollywood, in the heart of the Smoky Mountain corridor. Summer and fall foliage drive demand hard. Reserve well ahead for June through October.

from $40/night

Roamstead

27 RV Sites, 21 Cabins, 6 Tent Sites, 9 Yurts, 1 Airstream

Roamstead in Cosby, TN, offers 27 full-hookup RV sites, 21 cabins, 6 tent sites, and 10 Airstream and yurt rentals, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 44 feet. RV sites break into four categories — deluxe, standard on-stream, standard off-stream, and water-and-electric — with full-hookup sites carrying water, sewer, and electric plus site-delivered WiFi, a fire pit, and a picnic table. The on-stream sites put running water a few steps from the door. EV charging is available on the property, still uncommon in this corner of Tennessee. Laundry, a bathhouse, a general store, firewood, a dump station, and on-site dining round it out. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. An outdoor pool, a spa, a pavilion, a community fire pit, and a playground fill the grounds, with hiking and creek fishing from the property. Cosby sits on the eastern edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park — the quiet side, well away from the Gatlinburg corridor, with Clingmans Dome and Abrams Falls a drive away and less-trafficked trails much closer. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. On-stream sites and the Airstreams book earliest.

Big Mouth Cave Retreat

59 RV Sites, 7 Cabins, 10 Glamping Sites, 1 House

Big Mouth Cave Retreat in Pelham, Tennessee, offers 59 RV sites, eight cabin and house units, and 10 glamping sites on the Cumberland Plateau — a seven-minute walk from The Caverns, the underground music venue. Restrooms, showers, and cabins serve guests at 444 Charlie Roberts Road in Grundy County. Fifty-nine sites are available alongside eight cabins and houses and 10 glamping sites. Contact the retreat directly to confirm hookups, amp service, and length limits for your rig before booking — the site records are incomplete, and it is worth a call rather than an assumption. Restrooms and showers handle the practical side. One booking note the property flags: be sure to select both your check-in and check-out dates when reserving. The accommodations are the closest you can stay to The Caverns, which is the entire proposition here. That venue is a nationally recognized concert hall built inside a natural limestone cave, and it hosts everything from bluegrass to major touring acts in a space with acoustics no purpose-built room can replicate. Being able to walk seven minutes back to your site afterward rather than drive a mountain road in the dark is worth a great deal. Grundy County sits on the Cumberland Plateau's southern edge, where sandstone bluffs, hemlock-lined gorges, and subterranean cave systems concentrate. Grundy Forest State Natural Area's old-growth cove forest, Foster Falls, and the Fiery Gizzard Trail are all close. Demand tracks The Caverns' concert calendar almost entirely. Check the schedule and reserve as early as you can for show dates.

from $60/night

Serendipity Resort & Campground

4 Cabins, 9 Yurts

Serendipity Resort & Campground in Brownsville, Tennessee, offers four A-frame cabins and nine yurts on a lake in Haywood County, with a water park, outdoor pool, beach, and disc golf course. Golf cart rentals, on-site dining, and a bar serve guests in the Hatchie River corridor of West Tennessee. Four A-frame cabins and nine yurts make up the accommodations — this is glamping and cabin lodging rather than an RV park. A general store, restrooms, firewood, and WiFi serve the property. Check-in is 3:00pm and check-out 11:00am. Note that four-wheelers and side-by-sides are not permitted, though golf carts are available to rent — contact the resort for rates. The water is the draw. A lake and pond support fishing, canoeing, kayaking, paddle boats, and boating, with a beach and water park for swimming and an outdoor pool alongside. A disc golf course, horseshoes, biking, a playground, and a pavilion fill the grounds, with on-site dining and a bar for evenings. Pets are welcome. Brownsville sits on US-70 between Memphis and Jackson, which gives the resort practical West Tennessee highway access. The Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge protects a nationally significant stretch of bottomland hardwood nearby — the Hatchie is the longest un-channelized river in the lower Mississippi valley, and the surrounding agricultural landscape has kept its character. The resort serves the West Tennessee season. Summer water recreation drives the heaviest demand, with spring and fall delivering more comfortable conditions for the outdoor programming. With 13 units total, reserve well ahead for any weekend.

from $30/night

Piney River RV Resort

117 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites, 2 Glamping Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer, 4 Tiny Houses, 7 Park Models

Piney River RV Resort in Bon Aqua, Tennessee, offers 118 full-hookup RV sites, 7 Tiny Homes, 4 Glass Tiny Homes, 2 Luxury Glamping Tents, and 4 Tent Camping Sites. We offer 20, 30, and 50-amp services. Site types include: Pavilion Waterfront, Waterfront, and Super Premium, Premium, and Standard. Beautiful Retail Store, Pool, splash pad, Indoor and outdoor Playgrounds, and stunning Bathrooms-Showers. Open all year. Water, sewer, electric, and WiFi included. Sites are sized up to 80 feet, with Super Premium sites including fire pits, picnic tables. The waterfront tiers are the ones to request. The Retail store has nice washers and dryers, restrooms, showers, firewood, and some hot food. The address is 6869 Piney River Road North. A splash pad and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with the river carrying canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing. A game room, barn, sports courts, pickleball, basketball, a pond, playground, pavilion, dog park, and on-site dining fill the rest, with hiking, biking, and strong stargazing and birding. A golf course, state park, and wine tasting are nearby. Enjoy regular weekend events. We are Fifty miles from downtown Nashville and Broadway, and minutes from Johnny Cash's farm. Reserve well ahead please!

from $49/night

Smoky Mountain Meadows Campground

1 Onsite RV/Trailer

Smoky Mountain Meadows Campground in Bryson City, North Carolina, offers full-hookup RV sites, tent camping and cabin rentals across an open meadow valley four miles from the Deep Creek entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sites accommodate rigs up to 42 feet, and the campground's meadow setting — framed by forested ridgelines rather than enclosed by them — gives it a more open feel than most sites in the Tuckasegee drainage. Full-hookup RV sites take rigs to 42 feet, with a dump station available on the property. Tent sites serve campers who want the valley setting at a simpler price point, and cabins provide enclosed lodging with the same meadow outlook. A general store stocks camp basics and firewood, and bathrooms, showers and laundry cover the practical side of a longer stay. WiFi reaches the campground. On-site recreation centers on the meadow itself. A playground anchors the family end of the property, and basketball, volleyball, horseshoes and corn hole give guests something to do without leaving camp. A community fire pit provides the evening gathering point, and a covered pavilion handles group meals and rainy afternoons. Pets are welcome. Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Deep Creek entrance sits four miles north on Deep Creek Road and holds the most accessible waterfall cluster in the park — Tom Branch, Indian Creek and Juney Whank Falls all fall within a 2.5-mile walk of the trailhead, and the creek's calm Class I water makes Deep Creek the park's most family-friendly tubing run. Bryson City itself is the departure point for the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad through the Nantahala Gorge, and Harrah's Cherokee and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian are eight miles northwest on the Qualla Boundary. The campground runs April through October. Spring wildflowers peak from late March into May and fall color arrives in the Tuckasegee valley through October — the two busiest windows of the year alongside the summer national park season. Reserve early for October weekends, when Bryson City lodging fills across the board.

Gorgeous Stays

5 Cabins, 3 Tent Sites, 2 Glamping Sites, 1 Yurt, 3 Vintage RV Rentals

Gorgeous Stays in Bryson City, NC, offers 3 RV rentals, 5 cabins, 3 tent sites, and 3 glamping sites and yurts. The RV accommodations here are the point and they are not ordinary: a double decker bus called The Crown Jewel, a converted school bus billed as the Travel-Inn Skoolie, and a vintage Shasta camper. These are rentals rather than sites for your own rig — if you're towing, contact the property directly about hookups and fit before booking. A bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, a community fire pit, and a pavilion serve the grounds. Pets are welcome. Glamping here means the conveniences of home without the distractions, and the property leans into that: billiards, ping pong, picnicking, planned activities, creek frontage, and fishing, with biking and a casino close by. Bryson City sits in Swain County in the western North Carolina mountains, minutes from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with the Nantahala, Fontana Lake, and the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad all nearby. Rates for every accommodation type are on the booking page. The vintage rentals are one-of-one — book them early.

Ash Grove Mountain Cabins and Camping

Ash Grove Mountain Cabins and Camping in Brevard, North Carolina, nestles into the hardwood forests of Transylvania County, offering both rustic log cabin accommodations and traditional tent camping in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains where western North Carolina's concentration of waterfalls, old-growth forest, and wilderness trails makes it one of the most biodiverse and scenically rewarding outdoor destinations in the eastern United States. The property's understated, forest-immersed character attracts guests who prioritize natural setting over resort infrastructure, and its location between two major public land units gives it an unusually strong position for serious trail users. Guests choose between fully appointed cabins suited to families and couples seeking shelter and privacy or established tent sites set beneath a canopy of tulip poplars, white oaks, and second-growth hemlocks recovering from woolly adelgid damage that reshaped the forest understory in recent decades. On-site walking trails wind through the property's wooded grounds, and communal fire pits provide evening gathering spaces that encourage the quiet, unhurried social culture that distinguishes campground stays from hotel travel. The overall atmosphere is deliberately low-key—cell signal is limited, evenings are genuinely dark, and the sounds are forest sounds. The landscape surrounding Brevard is defined by the layered ridges of Pisgah National Forest, a 512,000-acre protected wilderness that encompasses more than 600 miles of hiking trails, multiple designated wilderness areas, and some of the best trout streams and single-track mountain biking in the Southeast. Transylvania County receives over 80 inches of rain annually—among the highest precipitation totals in the eastern US—feeding more than 250 waterfalls within the county boundaries, a concentration so extraordinary that the county markets itself as the Land of Waterfalls. Black bears, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and the occasional river otter inhabit the surrounding forest with a density that makes wildlife sightings a routine part of any extended stay. DuPont State Recreational Forest, just south of Brevard, protects the famous cascades used as filming locations for The Hunger Games—High Falls, Triple Falls, and Hooker Falls—all accessible from connected trail systems that allow visitors to link multiple waterfalls in a single outing without backtracking. The Blue Ridge Parkway's historic motor road runs along the ridge crests to the north, providing access to scenic overlooks, higher-elevation meadows, and the cultural heritage of Appalachian communities preserved along the route. Asheville's vibrant arts district, nationally recognized restaurant scene, craft brewery culture, and the Biltmore Estate's elaborate Victorian architecture are approximately 30 minutes northeast. Ash Grove operates from spring through late fall, with the summer waterfall season and October's hardwood foliage drawing the heaviest visitation. The property books steadily with hikers using it as a base for multi-day Pisgah Forest itineraries and families returning annually for cabin stays during Brevard's Music Center summer festival season. For guests whose primary goal is deep immersion in the forest landscape of the southern Appalachians, Ash Grove's combination of genuine woodland setting and strategic location between Pisgah National Forest and DuPont State Recreational Forest makes it one of the better-positioned campgrounds in the region.

Timberline Glamping at Unicoi State Park

6 Glamping Sites

Timberline Glamping at Unicoi State Park near Helen, Georgia, offers six luxury tent accommodations inside the state park, furnished with beds, air conditioning, heaters, and Keurig coffee makers. A lake, beach, walking trails, and full park access sit at 1788 Highway 356 in the North Georgia mountains. Six glamping sites make up the accommodations, and the furnishing list is what separates this from camping in name only — beds, climate control in both directions, and coffee in the morning without a camp stove. Restrooms, showers, a dump station, firewood, propane fills and exchange, and WiFi serve the property, with cabins also available. With six sites, reserve well ahead. Pets are welcome. The park does the rest. Unicoi's 53-acre lake sits close by with a beach for swimming, and walking trails, hiking, a playground, and a community fire pit fill the grounds. A creek and river run nearby, with birding across the forested mountain setting, planned activities through the season, and wine tasting and an amusement park nearby. The approach makes genuine outdoor immersion accessible to guests who do not own camping equipment or want to haul it — you get the state park's trail network and mountain setting without the logistics. Helen is the Bavarian-themed alpine village a short drive away, which gives the area an unusual combination of North Georgia wilderness and walkable town. October foliage in the North Georgia mountains and Helen's Oktoberfest drive the sharpest demand. Reserve well ahead for fall.