The Perfect Setting for Your Special Event

Celebrate life’s milestones with the rustic grace and refined luxury of Dancing Bear Lodge. When business is on the agenda, our property and professionals set the stage for creative, productive meetings for up to 125 attendees, including food and beverage service. From elegantly simple to resplendently grand, weddings here promise the natural charm and beauty found only in the Great Smoky Mountains. When it’s time to reconnect with the relatives, we offer a heart-warming backdrop for family fun and adventure. Regardless of the occasion, Dancing Bear transforms every event into an unforgettable celebration, complete with complimentary wireless Internet access, elegantly appointed accommodations, attentive service and genuine Southern hospitality.

Meetings in the Great Smoky Mountains

Welcome to Your Boardroom in the Mountains. Our Townsend, Tennessee, lodge offers the perfect place for you, your clients and your staff to focus on business. We understand your requirements and specialize in providing a cost effective meeting destination in an atmosphere conducive to creative thinking. Our meeting and banquet facilities accommodate up to 125 attendees and we have lodging capacity for up to 80 guests. Our owners understand the importance of a productive business environment and strive to offer you the service and seclusion you require so you can focus on the business at hand. All nightly group rates include daily continental breakfast.

Group Activities and Services:
Our team works with your group planner to coordinate menus, group services and activities including audio visual equipment, transportation, storytelling by the bonfire, guided fly fishing and instruction, local tours, golf outings, guided hikes, biking trips and team building.

Elegant Smoky Mountain Weddings

Imagine a wedding with a Smoky Mountain backdrop. Our luxury resort offers an extraordinary setting for weddings. With exclusive use of all twenty-nine (29) rooms, the wedding party enjoys private use of the entire 36-acre estate with ceremony and reception options including the main lodge, pavilion and wooded outdoor setting with mountain views.

Do you envision your wedding day in the Smokies as one of simple elegance, or do you have a five-star weekend of regal splendor in mind? A small, elegant wedding for your family and guests can be accommodated within our 15,000 sq. ft. lodge with a minimum reservation of fourteen rooms and our honeymoon suite. Or let us help you plan a full-blown weekend gala for your wedding party with unique family events planned in and around Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge or Townsend - with all our facilities available to you: twelve lodge rooms plus 17 luxurious cabins, Hemlock Hall accommodating up to 125 guests for a seated dinner, plus ample grounds to secure additional tents should that need arise.

Our Townsend, Tennessee, luxury resort will enchant your party with the charm of the Smoky Mountains and encapsulate your guests in rustic elegance, culminating with the very special wedding ceremony you've always imagined. No matter how you've pictured the day of your nuptials, we are eager to "frame" it for you...from the accommodations, to the floral needs, to the delicious foods served throughout your stay. Although we're known for our Smoky Mountain secluded cabins, we offer so much more!

Family Celebrations

Consider our lodge only 5 minutes from the Smoky Mountains to be your family's mountain home! Our 36-acre resort offers the perfect destination for your family members to relax and enjoy a memorable family reunion. We will be happy to work with you to arrange special activities including family nature hikes, horseback riding excursions, fly fishing, golf and more. Our convenient Townsend location is within easy access to local antique stores, crafts, restaurants and the endless activities in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

You may reserve all twelve (12) guest rooms in the lodge and enjoy all the lodge has to offer including comfortable sitting areas, our large deck complete with hot tub, nightly s'mores by our outdoor fireplace and complimentary daily continental breakfast. Additional accommodations include our Smoky Mountain cabin rentals featuring one and two bedroom cabins, perfect for families traveling with children.

The Beauty of Smoky Mountain Meeting and Event Facilities

Dancing Bear Lodge offers full-service meeting and banquet facilities for up to 125 Guests.

Board Room located upstairs in the lodge, the handsomely appointed board room offers seating for up to twelve (12) and wireless high-speed Internet service.

Hemlock Hall
Conveniently located adjacent to the lodge, this meeting and banquet room offers 1,800 sq. ft. accommodating up to 125 attendees. The wooded setting offers an excellent setting for creative thinking. Hemlock Hall also offers a beautiful stone wood-burning fireplace and wireless high-speed Internet access.