Balsam Mountain Inn

Grand Old Lady Hotel provides our guests with a magical personalized experience. You will be taken back in time. While relaxing guests are welcome to enjoy a cocktail or two at our “Spirits of the Inn” bar. At the Grand Old Lady Hotel, you will find immaculate rooms and suites that offer ample space and come with a private bathrooms equipped with an antique claw-foot bathtub, shower, or combination of both, or just a walk in shower, three-course gourmet American Breakfast, privacy, quiet natural settings with spectacular mountains views from our front porch and second floor terrace. Nestled among lofty Smoky Mountain peaks just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Grand Old Lady Hotel was completed in 1908 to serve the highest railway depot in the east. Restored in 2018.