Gatlinburg landed at #4 on Vacasa’s Top 25 Places to Purchase a Rental Property List. You can see more here.

“Gatlinburg was our number one best place to buy a vacation home in 2019 (Sevierville is included in the Gatlinburg market). Tucked into a leafy mountain valley and bordered by Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg welcomes up to 12 million visitors annually, despite having only 4,000 full-time residents. What’s all the fuss? There’s more packed into this town than destinations twice its size—from day hikes, river rafting, guided outdoor tours, and panoramic lookouts to seasonal festivals, unique shops, and plenty of family-friendly amenities.”

Top take-aways from this article highlight a preference for drive-to markets over fly-to markets and a way to embrace the great outdoors! Did you know that the Smokies are just a day’s drive from roughly 2/3rds of the nation’s population?