Abandoned Million Dollar View Cabins / Exploring Bluff Mountain Pigeon Forge Tennessee. Backroads
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2023
- Thank you for watching our traveling adventures. Join us as we explore Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville and sharing our bucket list travels.
Connect with us on our social media platforms
Facebook page up to date info about us. 👇
/ ayankeeinthesouthprodu...
Twitter (Up to the minute updates) 👇
/ yankeeinthesou3
Instagram (photos and shorts of us) 👇
/ yankeeinthesouthproduc...
How To Support Our Channel
We appreciate everyone that takes time out of their day to watch our little videos!
Our videos are free to watch. Just watching our videos, you have already helped support the channel from the advertisers that place commercials in the videos. Thank you so much!
Merchandise
A great way to support our channel is through our online store. Teespring handles everything from t-shirts to coffee cups. our official online store for YITS
Teespring link 👇👇👇
yankeeinthesouth-2.creator-sp...
How to contact us
yitschannel@gmail.com
#yankeeinthesouth #travel #smokies
© All uploads are the intellectual property of YITS Productions, LLC. You do not have permission to reuse any part without written consent.
yitschannel@gmail.com
These back road riding/exploring videos are my new favorites!!! So beautiful!! Thanks for taking us along!! 🫶
Glad you like them!
same here :D
I haven't commented in a few years. I really enjoyed this video. I felt like it went back to the videos you used to post. It focused on the "subject" and really gave the viewer a front seat view of the scary ride up those steep one-way roads. Enjoyed seeing the really old cabins and wondered what life was like up there. Gave us a true view of "wonder what's up there?" Hope you will do more of hidden areas of the smokies and it's history.
I agree also😊
Wow that is so high.Really wonder why so many abandoned cabins.Looks like it could be dangerous but glad y’all took us along.You make excellent videos as always.
I agree Diane! This is my favorite type of video they do!
This my favorite type of videos too!
This was an incredible video!!! I was in the back seat going along for that ride. It was SCARY!!! I would be afraid if a fire was on the mountain side, and I had to drive down. Thanks for showing ALL of us what's at the top of Bluff Mountain. 👍👍👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
I know I'm not the only one who enjoys these back road videos. Please do more of these!
Very Very Beautiful!! It’s a shame those cabins have just been left up there. The View of Mount LeConte is Breathtaking from up there. Loved the whole adventure. Thanks For Sharing!!!
Thank you very much!
Great video!! Give it 10 yrs,will be prime property and cabins everywhere. ❤️❤️
Amazing views but my concern would be wildfires. We were evacuated during the 2016 and 2022 fires. Thankfully, we were spared. One way in one way out. We were up in the fire tower years ago. Beautiful drive.
Like their video be great to have one of the Old Cabin ,Happy You Shared it This , Thank You🌨️ 🎶♥️😊
Well what can I say amazing just absolutely amazing what a great video thank you both very much I really loved it.
Judy in New Zealand
Thank you very much!
Another great tour you guys!! You take us in places we didn't know existed and places we will never get to see. Great views on top of that mountain
that is absolutely scary and we would never live in a place so narrow and steep as that. Amazing how much real-estate is now days!!
LOVED THIS VIDEO!
Thanks so much!!
Oh my goodness beautiful views, but I would be terrified driving that road. If it rains then the fog would be really bad. We stayed in a condo in Gatlinburg up on the very top off Campbell lead road. It rain and even though it was evening we like to have not made it back to the condo. It scared me to death.so I can only imagine how bad it would be on Bluff Mountain when it rained. Thanks for sharing this beautiful place.
Ted Miller's family used to live up there, before guard rails (when he was GM of Dollywood), I bet that nice house was theirs. I think the little cabins were like for hunting or summer trips. I'm glad to see the road has improved since my last visit, lol, thanks for taking me there!
Thanks for the video, Will and Dawn. I always look forward to seeing Bluff Mountain from a distance when we visit the Smokies. No way would I want to drive or ride on that road! I imagine when leaves are on the trees that the views are really obscured. I remember being in Pigeon Forge a few years ago when some cabins caught on fire up there. Thanks for showing us what the actual road is like and sharing your adventure with us. Stay safe!
Thank you so much for this video. Amazing views. Don't think I want to have to pass another car or get stuck in snow. But beautiful God's country
Thank you for sharing breaks my heart to see all the cabins falling apart
Our pleasure!
Dawn is so cute. I love her expressions.
Great video. Enjoyed 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you 👍
These are your videos I enjoy the most, being out in nature, seeing beautiful scenery, and wondering about the people who inhabited the forsaken cabins. I'm sure there are many stories on that mountain. Thx.
Thank you. You just brought back old memories from back in the 80s when I worked for a local two-way radio repair company. I used to go up there to check the radio equipment. WIVK's power was so strong that it would bleed into the speakers of the radio system in my truck. Thanks again for bringing up old memories.
Those views were absolutely amazing up there on top of Blufg Mountain but that road sure looked aweful scary. I have seen Bluff Mountain from Pigeon Forge and I flew over it on a helicopter ride but I have never driven up it and looking at that road I probably never will. Thanks for sharing this adventure with us and taking us there to enjoy that incredible view.
If I could afford to live up there. I would certainly not mind being snowed in there at all! What a beautiful, secluded and peaceful area! I wouldn't get anything done for sitting out on the porch soaking in those views! Thanks so much for taking us along!
That was quite a tour. Interesting cabins and the views were great
Thanks for sharing
😳😬…oh my goodness, Will!!..Dawn!!….I have to hand it to y’all, there is absolutely no way I would be able to drive up there or…..be a passenger..that’s why I’m glad y’all these fun, crazy and scary trips so I can just tag along😊💕
Hi Dawn, your shirt is so cute! Thanks for the great videos!
Thanks so much!
Oh how I loved this video of your adventures today. BEAUTIFUL, BREATHTAKING, & Will, you are such an excellent “trip teacher “, thank you so very much❣️I’ve missed your mountain rides & hikes.
So glad!
Great video loved it , must tell on seeing some of the switch backs I closed my eyes and crossed my fingers bit nerve-racking scary. Also got a good laugh of Dawn trying to open the out house door, what a brave heart she was kudos to you Dawn. Thank you for sharing 😊
Glad it helped
OMG, I stumbled onto your all's channel through another channel that was hating on you all. Well, I LOVE your channel. I've been watching you all for three days now,. I've been to the Smoky Mountains many times, but I never knew about Bassom Mountain Road or even Cataloochee before I saw your channel. So, at least some good came from the haters channel.
I hope you all just keep doing what you're doing. And don't even acknowledge those people who are hating on you all. Don't give them any power. They're obviously jealous of something.
Thank you so much for your kind words 🤗😚😉
@@yankeeinthesouth you are most welcome. Could you all go spend a day in Cherokee and review the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and also the Qualla Art Co-op?
Wow...love the views!! Hope you keep doing these back road series.
More to come!
So glade I found this
Oh wow how beautiful that area is!! I wouldn't have been able to drive that road. What stories those old cabins could tell. Thanks for sharing. Be safe and God bless.
I lived above the snow line on Bluff Mountain 1987-2007 Loved it
Dawn with the initiative in the intro and a DOUBLE DOG DARE? Go get him girl!
Wow guys thanks for sharing the Bluff Mountain View's they were beautiful and breath taking.
Glad you enjoyed it
I really liked this video, thanks for sharing 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
you're braver than me, that road is out of my comfort zone. beautiful views though.
Thanks for watching
Thank you for taking us along on this adventurous ride. Really enjoyed all the views. Breath-taking.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for the tour of Bluff Mountain. Some beautiful views from there for sure. I like the old cabins too.
I was holding my breath a few times. Not somewhere I could go. Thanks for taking me along.
Glad you enjoyed it
I enjoyed watching 🎉
Glad you enjoyed
Happy New Year Will and Dawn. Thank you for the trip up on Bluff Mountain. BEAUTIFUL!
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. It deserves 2 thumbs up 👍 👍 for the content and hard work.
So nice of you
Man thats some great views!
Absolutely wonderful sledgehammered that like button sharing out full watch stay safe and blessed
Thank you kindly
Will and Dawn thank you for all these driving videos. I love these videos. I really like the site's
Glad you like them!
I had a cabin 3 miles up and you are correct. I was 7 miles from town 3 miles up and it’s definitely a long trip down. I had internet and all utilities but winter was awful. It’s more of a retirement thing. I gym 4 days a week so coming to town is important to me. But the road going to my mountain home was just like the one you went up. Only up and down going out to my place. And yeah I sold it for quite a lot. I’m only 40 but not ready to retire. I’m so active and being trapped up on a mountain top is not on my to do list. I’d rather just go up and take pics and come back down. It’s safer that way. Plenty of time to find the right property that isn’t so far up. Many love love love that view and it’s a million dollar view , but it comes with a cost. I love your content. You got a new sub! Oh I live in the next county over so I frequent Sevierville and Pigeon. Keep up the good work. I love your videos !!!!
Thank you so much 😆
I don't know if you have made a video on Dolly Parton's original home yet. If you haven't I think that would be a great video to show were Dolly Parton lived as a child
We have a video in our library
That is what we DO often when we are in the Smokies. Best "entertainment" there is. BTW we live in rural Indiana and it is a minimum 30 mile roundtrip to get a loaf of bread. LOL
Beautiful ride
Pretty scenery
That was awesome
Unusual guys, very interesting👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
I have always admired and dreamed about bluff mountain since I was a kid. I thought it looked easy to get up there, and even considered doing it on a mountain bike. Glad I did not try it! lol thank you for doing the hard work for me and giving us all a view of it's unusual characteristics and environment. looking forward to more videos thank you
Really enjoyed this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! Thanks for sharing, until next time...
Thanks for watching!
Loved the vlog, Beautiful views but I think you're right.The Smokey's have so many lovely views that aren't so treacherous, for the vacationers. Thanks for taking us along. 🐻🥰🌲🏞🏕❤️🙏
We watched this last night and got a kick out of your Michigan cabin comment We live in South Haven Michigan and see many older cabins along the rivers and occasionally the lakes although the lakeshores are being bought up by the very wealthy at an alarming rate
We have traveled and vacationed there many times so once we saw one of your videos near Townsend where we had just stayed we were hooked and have viewed from time to time
We love to see you go places we haven’t been which helps us decide whether we might go there and we love seeing you go where we have been and hearing your impressions and recalling our experiences
Thanks for the fun
God Bless
Thanks Terrill
Thank you Will and Dawn for taking me up Bluff Mountain... I think I got a little car sick along the way..🤮lol ..too far up for me....I'm positive that's the only way I will ever get to go there.. it's a beautiful view. Here where l live you have two choices where to build....on a hill or in a valley..lol..me and my husband choose a hill..we have beautiful sunrises and sunsets...and very pleased we chose a hill...thank you for all the great videos..God bless both of you ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
very nice .that 349k cabin, wow the future is 99.00 a night x40 guest,, like the video, keep em rolling friends.
Thanks 👍
Thanks for taking us there via video. I would never want to drive up Bluff Mountain in spite of the beautiful views.
Our pleasure!
I would have had to explore some old cabins. This would be a BAD rd to lose your brakes on the way back down. Thanks for the ride along. I've oftened wondered what was up there. Good video,Guys!
Thanks 👍
Great video. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Very cool video! Stunning views but the narrow road up and steep drop offs made me pretty anxious. Shame about all those abandoned buildings. I'm wondering if some developer bought those properties up and have plans to raze everything and build something else.
I am a flat lander and those types of roads scare me especially if there is a very recognizable steep drop off. Yikes. The house for sale is cute. For me I love views looking up at mountains rather than from the top of mountains.
Originally, I believe that this was a family homestead up on top. Then more and more folks built cabins thinking they could rent them out. But without improved roads, most tourists just won’t make that trip up and down the mountain. When it snows your not moving at all. Steep pig trail roads, narrow with some places you can’t even pass another vehicle. No shoulder drop offs that would certainly send you a long way down the bluff. Beautiful views. Cabin rentals went bust up there. - Tennessee Smoky
Good point
Great video. I never knew about this mountain.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was able to find Bluff Mountain on Google Earth and I explored it that way using street view! Way much safer lol :D Thanks for the video 👍
I have not been to the top of Bluff Mountain until today. It reminded me of the cabin we rented at the top of a mountain off of wears valley road.
Beautiful views and I bet you can see tons of wildlife up there 💕
So very beautiful up there.
It really is!
Whew,Will and Dawn!! I was like, PLEASE come back down!! Beautiful, but y’all were making me nervous!😅😅😅
As a contractor for 30+ years that 'cabin' on the mountain is a knock-down. You'll spend more fixing it than you would knocking it down and building up from the foundation.
Wow I enjoyed the views! It was scary just going along with yall in the video. Breathtaking for sure. Have a great day. ❤
Glad you enjoyed
So glade I put this in save
The best was seeing Mt. LeConte! Oh my 😱 to think that my teenage son wanted to hike that! Thank THE ALMIGHTY that the road that takes you to the trailhead was closed when we went in December. 😰 🙏🏼 We are flatlanders like soneone mentioned & from tropical weather, in no way were we prepared to hike it. It had been snowing for the remainder of our vacation. We should've hiked to Mt. LeConte the day we made it to Alum Cave, but I didn't plan this trip, it was 2 city slickers/flatlanders... my husband & his brother in law. 😁
Great views. Scary drive. If someone would be coming down or up at the same time where would anyone go? It’s like a stand off.
Wow! Amazing views but scary 😮drive. Thanks for taking me along!!
Glad you enjoyed
Pretty, but maybe the many cabins abandoned is the mountains are upset.Some places are meant to observe the beauty,than leave.These cabins are taking away from the beauty that this mountain holds.Love your videos.Thank you Will and Dawn for all the great videos you provide for us
Could be
I drove up to bluff mountain one time for work and there was a guy and his dog laying in the middle of the road in the rain..very strange
Isn't it interesting how once no one lives in a house, it tends to fall apart and nature takes the land back
Hey you were close to us in Seymour! Just on the other side of that spot and great views from there. Been up there many of times and a fire years ago ran so many off that area. Reminds of of Elkmont before the cabins got tore down. The income from those would be insane! Don't forget to reach out so we can discuss a cool review idea and location.
That was beautiful and a little scary. The road was terrible. If you was to buy land up there I don't think you could get any building supplies there. But it would be beautiful. 🇺🇸
I'm from NH, I enjoy your travels. I've seen places I've never been. Keep up the amazing work. Hug's to you and Dawn. Blessings from VA ❤️
Awesome! Thank you!
Awesome 😎 Loved❤️ Enjoyed 😎 Thanks Dawn 🙋♀️ and Will 🙋♂️❣️
Thanks for another great place to check out.
Our pleasure!
Wow, those views are just gorgeous. Some beautiful cabins too. I imagine you can see all the stars at night up there. Cheers
They are!
Will and Dawn, really enjoyed your video! Love the beautiful views and old cabins! Thank you for taking me along with you! Looking forward to your next vlog.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love you guys. Really enjoy your adventures.
Thanks so much!
Beautiful views but with my luck I would meet another car and be in a fix!
Lovely!
Hi Tasos 👋 Happy Tuesday to you 😊
It's colette I'm so glad you're back down (safe)!!! I always wondered what was up there now I know. Thank you. But I was scared for you guys! The long long trailer is one of my favorite movies
Beautiful views.. some scary looking cabins 😬
They are!
My husband and I enjoy your channel so much! ❤ We just love you guys! All your content is amazing! 🙌 🐻 Thank you for all your hard work and time you put into these wonderful videos!😊
Thanks so much!!
Thank you for the ride with you all. I could not do this in a car myself. I have issues with heights.. Beautiful views but very strange that there are so many abandoned cabins.. makes you wonder why.
Thanks for watching!
Love this video!
Thank you!!
Love these videos! Spectacular views! That was fun seeing the old cabins exploring the nooks crannies winding roads and Mt. tops! Thanks Will and Dawn 🐻🏔⛰️⛰️🗻
More to come!
@@yankeeinthesouth 😁👍
We stayed at one of the cabins right after that first guard rail. It is a scary road
I really enjoy these "back road" videos! That was a seriously sketchy road, but beautiful views. What a fun video!
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the adventure, never been up there and we have lived here 10 years.
Glad you enjoyed it
I always wonder if my brakes are good on those kinda trips. :D
You and me both!
4:41 - the outhouse wood may have been swollen as im sure they dont lock it or maybe someone was in there, lol