Beech Mountain, North Carolina · 4,330 ft
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A remodelled four-bedroom log cabin between two creeks, two miles from the slopes, and seventy degrees all summer.
A log cabin at 4,330 feet in Beech Mountain, North Carolina, remodelled through 2025 by owners who stay here themselves.
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The highest town in the East
Beech Mountain sits higher than any other town east of the Mississippi, so summer here averages seventy degrees and winter brings real snow. Deer Trail Lodge is a remodelled log cabin near the middle of town, between two creeks, two miles from the lifts.
By the numbers
Winter
The resort is two miles away, the town sledding hill is up the road (the sleds are in the house), and there are boot and glove dryers for when you come in.
Inside
From the owners
In more than thirty years of travelling we rented dozens of homes on Vrbo and Airbnb, and found very few we would have rented twice. We carried our own pillows, our own dog crate and boxes of cookware. Not one of those houses had a crockpot, a waffle maker or a crate. Windows had no blinds, neighbours kept us awake, doors didn’t latch, and every house lacked the attention of an owner who actually stayed there.
So when we closed on Deer Trail Lodge in July 2021, we set out to make it the house we had been looking for: comfortable beds, clean from floor to ceiling, a kitchen with everything in it, room-darkening blinds, gas fireplaces, central air for the rare warm day, a yard where a dog can run, and a creek on either side. We have spent hours cleaning, remodelling and reworking every corner of it, through 2025, and we stay here ourselves.
If anything is amiss while you are here, call, text or email and we will see to it straight away. We love this place, and we hope you will too.
Lora Williams
Owner, Deer Trail Lodge
Filmed at the lodge
Deer most mornings, a black bear twice in one week, fawns on the road. Our own footage, plus a few slow clips of the house. Follow @beechmountainvacationrental for more.
Photos
Getting here
On a newly paved road, two miles from the resort and 8.5 from Banner Elk. Tri-Cities Airport is about 60 miles away, Asheville 94 and Charlotte 112. In winter you will need four-wheel or all-wheel drive.
Tell us when you would like to come and who is coming (dogs included). Lora will reply with availability and a quote.
We closed on the home the first week of July 2021, and in our very first week there we discovered that deer were literally everywhere. They were not shy and would graze right in fr
Not far from the home is a lovely overlook and a moderately strenuous half-mile trail that begins with a picnic area and a waterfall.
We found so many lovely trails just minutes from the home. This is Upper Pond Creek Trail.
The alpine coaster in Banner Elk was a lot of fun. We filmed a full ride; you can watch it on the Beech Mountain page.
This was sent to us by one of our guests, Tanya, during a family outing. When you are a hungry fawn, it does not matter that the world must stop for you!
For the second time this week, a black bear wandered across the property at Deer Trail Lodge, down by the creek. Please use the bear-proof bin at the street.
The Shane Outpost is a new campsite area at the far end of Buckeye Lake, and it is not just for campers. There are nice public bathrooms that stay open when the Buckeye Recreation
I have recently taken an interest in frisbee golf. We tried the course at the ski resort a few years ago but found the grass too high at times and hard to navigate, so I was happy