Our mountainside and the rolling pastures of our farm occupy a peaceful high glen at the end of a beautiful valley. Come stay with us in a Smoky Mountain cabin. Ride and hike our woods. Share our farm bounty. Pick an armful of wildflowers, glory in a sunset, dream by a crackling fire. When you come to Randall Glen you'll never want to leave. Once you leave you'll always want to come back.

• About Randall Glen
• A Bird's Eye Map of Randall Glen
• The Seasons at Randall Glen
• The Sights and Sounds of Randall Glen
• The People of Randall Glen
• An Album of Seasons

Randall Glen is located just outside Asheville in the historic farming community of Big Sandy Mush. Completely isolated by mountains, this picture postcard valley is still farmed by original settler families and has no commercial development at all. We're on Newfound Mountain at the very end of the valley, and have over a hundred acres of mountainside and rolling pasture filled with wildflowers, creeks, and forest. We're surrounded by thousands of acres of conservancy land, and wildlife flourishes here. Our home farm, Randall Cove Farm, is at an elevation of 3100 feet and our Randall Glen mountaintop is at 3600 feet, giving us wonderfully cool summer air and great snow in the winter. We're so high, in fact, that sometimes we're actually surrounded by clouds.

For our guests we offer seven authentic log cabins on the wooded mountainside, each with magnificent mountain views and well separated from the others. Four cabins comfortably sleep 2 to 6 persons and three accommodate 4 to 8.

	Each cabin has:
	•	a cathedral ceiling living room
	•	a woodburning fireplace
	•	a fully equipped chef's kitchen
	•	a spacious dining area
	•	a rocking chair front porch
	•	a huge screened porch with
	•	a hot tub
	•	and an outdoor dining table

	Amenities include
	•	central heat and air
	•	washer and dryer
	•	dishwasher
	•	telephone
	•	satellite TV/DVD/VCR
	•	an extra bedroom TV
	•	and highspeed internet

Some of the luxuries include featherbeds, heated towels, leather sofas, and an honor pantry filled with gourmet snacks and sundries. Kids and pets are welcome, and we provide accessible and low-allergin accommodations as well. We can arrange to stock your kitchen on arrival, help book activities like rafting, Biltmore visits, and hot air ballooning, or even arrange for massage and spa services at your cabin. We're open year round, with winter ski vacations and special Christmas celebrations as well as complete entertainment in warm weather.

	Activities at Randall Glen include:
	•	horseback riding and wagon rides
	•	trout fishing
	•	extensive hiking and mountain biking trails
	•	dig-your-own gem mining; regular bonfires and cookouts
	•	An interactive farm
	•	a big games lawn with outdoor games and winter sledding
	•	a full game room including billiards and air hockey
	•	A comprehensive fitness center
	•	gift shop and general store with basic and gourmet groceries
	•	lending library of videos, books, and games
	•	and living history at our historic settler's log cabin

At Randall Glen, a kid can be a kid—and so can you
There are so many things to do at Randall Glen, and one of the best is just plain having fun. Here, your family is a world away from rigid schedules and stranger dangers. With no worry about city threats, your kids can go exploring and have adventures all on their own. There’s nothing like being out on your own, hunting for arrowheads, discovering a nest of baby birds, or setting up a secret fort. And for the very best of times, join in on that fun we all used to have! Step back to a time when every morning opened with glorious, endless leisure to do just what you want. Throw away the calendar. Take a walk with your kids and laugh with them as they run through a meadow. Lay back and find shapes in the clouds. Toss a line in the pond and watch the bobber. Get your feet wet in a creek or follow a butterfly just to see where it goes. And, under a star dazzled sky, gather around a fire to share the sticky joys of a perfect marshmallow. Your kids will never forget these days together, and neither will you.

Our Home Farm
Our home farm provides fresh vegetables, fruits, and eggs. Guests are welcome to participate in everyday farm life and to help feed our Highland sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, and-yes-llamas. According to season, you might experience horsedrawn plowing, sheep shearing, horseshoeing, or bottle feeding lambs and baby goats. There are simple pleasures, too, like blackberrying, creek wading, picking armloads of wildflowers, chasing fireflies, and gazing at more stars than you've ever seen.

We want you to feel at home here, and to feel as if you're part of these mountains.

Randall Glen is open year round, and every season is one you don't want to miss:

Spring

In March, April, and May the daffodils open, the meadows are carpeted with flowers, and the woods are full of wild violets, Lady's Slipper orchids, and young fern. Dogwood, apple, and peach trees burst into clouds of bloom. Nights are cold--perfect for a wood fire--the days are crisp, and into April we still have occasional snow. We're plowing the garden for spring planting and gathering woodland delicacies like morels, ramps, and branch lettuce. Sweet wild strawberries ripen in the meadows. The Great Horned Owls fledge their owlets in the nest up on the mountain. Baby goats and lambs are born and soon they're at play, chasing each other wildly and bouncing in the air as if they're on springs.

Summer

The long, glorious days of summer are here. In June, July, and August the air is filled with butterflies. Goldfinches are everywhere and the bluebirds are feeding their nestlings. Flower gardens run riot, with hummingbirds busy sipping nectar. The meadows are covered with daisies, Black-eyed Susans, and Queen Anne's Lace. The days are mild, seldom above the 80s, and perfect for outdoors-riding, picnics, or just napping under a tree. The long, cool evenings are filled with fireflies, S'mores around a bonfire, stargazing, and mountain music. We begin harvesting sweet corn and other garden treats, and the blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries are ripe for picking. It's sheep shearing time, and the llamas get a haircut too. Proud mothers shepherd their chicks and ducklings in the barnyard.

Fall

Fall brings perhaps the finest weather of the year. In September a fire feels good as the nights dip into the 40s, while days in the 70s make it a pleasure to be outside. Fall wildflowers are head-high and the pastures are lush. Apples begin to ripen and we harvest the garden at its height. With October comes the magnificence of fall foliage, with our mountains absolutely ablaze with every shade of red, gold, and orange set against a brilliant blue sky. With the first frosts we're gathering black walnuts and roasting chestnuts over the fire. November brings fine cold nights, days in the 40s and 50s, and the magic of walking the woods ankle-deep in colored leaves. With the first snows the horses begin to look like teddy bears in their winter coats, and we might celebrate a white Thanksgiving.

Winter

December brings fine cold weather and snow for sledding on our hills. Winter in the Smokies offers the best of both worlds-we have frequent snow but it melts away after a few days, so roads are usually clear for driving. Here at Randall Glen we're high in the mountains, and even between snows we usually have plenty in shady spots for a good snowball fight. As the holidays near we cut our own Christmas trees and decorate with popcorn garlands and red Bittersweet berries from our woods. Hot cider and blazing bonfires warm the nights. We enjoy skiing at nearby slopes, and the winter sports get even better through January and February. It's a good time for a bracing day outdoors, a soak in the hot tub with the snow drifting down, then a cozy evening by the fireplace.

At Randall Glen you're likely to see and hear:

• The liquid call of a Meadowlark
• Hundreds and hundreds of butterflies
• The crowing of a rooster
• The chuckling of a creek over a waterfall
• A Redtail Hawk gliding high overhead
• The neigh of a horse across the pasture
• Baby goats sleeping intertwined in a bed of flowers
• The song of Katydids in the night

At Randall Glen you definitely won't see or hear:

• Sirens
• Traffic
• Billboards
• Blaring music
• Tall buildings
• Alarm clocks

Click here to view An Album of Seasons