The largest treehouse resort in the world is coming soon to the Smoky Mountain area of East Tennessee. The Sanctuary Treehouse Resort will be the world’s largest resort of its kind, situated on 40 acres in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, according to the resort.
The resort will be situated on 40 acres in Sevierville with views of the Smoky Mountain area of East Tennessee and two 18-hole golf courses nearby. The resort will be golf-cart-access only, and its owners have plans for walking trails and an enchanted forest, as well as a variety of unique amenities that will be added over time.
According to the resort, there are plans for three types of treehouse rentals: Tree Fort, Tree Fort Double, and The Luxe. Tree Fort will accommodate from two to six guests and feature unique amenities such as spiral slides, custom drink shoots for bottles and cans from the kitchen to the lower porch, telescopes, bucket pulleys, swings, secret ladders, escape hatches, rope climbs, LED and wood-burning fireplaces, and more. Tree Fort Double will have all of the same features as Tree Fort, including a drawbridge connecting two treehouses that can be raised and lowered for group accommodations. The Luxe will accommodate couples and features upscale amenities, fixtures, and decor including copper clawfoot tubs, bidet automatic heated toilet systems, outside tubs on bottom level porches, suspended outdoor day beds, custom-tiled showers and more.
“Our initial inspiration to build a treehouse resort for the Smoky Mountains came after staying in a single treehouse several years ago in another state,” owners Brian and Amanda Jensen said in a statement to ABC6. “We are creating an interactive experience within the treehouse itself; we hope guests desire to come back year after year.”
The resort began construction for the first phase of its treehouses earlier this month and plans are in place for rentals to begin starting this summer.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Sounds like a boon-doogle project to me. Can the average tourist afford to go there? What type of impact will it have on the environment? What type of impact will it have on nearby residential areas and towns? We need to consider all those questions before releasing a single penny for the project!