Located in small town Tellico Plains is a unique place. In this natural setting, a special place is being created. The Cascades Cottages at Telliquah. There will only be twelve cottages and just nine are still available. Telliquah builds your cottage just for you and then, should you want to rent it to visitors when you’re not there, they will manage it for you. The cottages themselves overlook a special area of the Tellico River where there are cascades, rocky mini-waterfalls, and deep pools of crystal clear water.
A simpler way of life that the country offers beckons. Rolling hills with cattle dotting them aren’t far away. Here is a town so small there isn’t a stop light. Ahhh. The owner and architect have tried to think of everything. Though they sit side-by-side on the river, each of The Cascades Cottages is angled slightly so that the back deck offers total privacy. And this back deck is accessed from both the great room and the master bedroom. Imagine waking to the sounds of water cascading downriver just outside your bedroom.
Three and four bedroom models are available. Square footage of both models is the same at about 1,800 square feet but the three bedroom model eliminates one downstairs bedroom and allows for a larger master bedroom and bath. Each cottage has 2 ½ bathrooms. The great room has a vaulted, pine, tongue and groove ceiling with exposed beams and a gas fireplace with a stone face. All of the floors downstairs, with the exception of the master bath, are hardwood. The master bath has dual sinks, a separate shower, jetted tub and, like the other bathrooms, a tile floor.
The first floor includes the master suite, the great room with the kitchen and a powder room. Two more bedrooms and a bathroom are upstairs. Upstairs bedrooms and a loft that overlooks the great room have hardwood floors. These cottages have luxurious details. Kitchen and bath countertops are granite. Kitchen appliances are stainless steel.
If you haven’t seen this area, you need to. The Tellico River is a pristine river flowing out of the mountains, tumbling over rocks and beneath towering trees. Fishing, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, and tubing are all at your doorstep. Wildlife abounds in the 640,000 acre Cherokee National Forest, the largest tract of public land in Tennessee, which adjoins the Telliquah property. Telliquah is located on the Cherohala Skyway, Highway 165, a National Scenic Byway which traverses 43 miles over the mountains into North Carolina. This highway commands that you get out your camera and won’t let you put it away.
Owner Tom Cormier says this is “a place that is being created as a destination resort.” It’s a boutique resort. Telliquah is the place where historically the Cherokee came, set aside differences and got together every summer. It is a gathering place. Tom and wife, Christine Cormier, consider their resort to “be the rebirth of Telliquah.” It was a gathering place and it is again. Whether you own or visit, Telliquah is a beautiful slice of nature.
Designed as an entire getaway experience, Telliquah has two restaurants. Bistro By The River offers fine dining for lunch, dinner and Sunday Brunch. The Cascades Riverside Grille downstairs offers a more casual lunch. Both restaurants overlook the Tellico River.
If fly fishing is your passion (or the passion of someone you know) Telliquah Outfitters is the perfect destination. They are fly fishing outfitters and offer flying fishing instruction (perhaps the perfect Christmas gift for someone on your list).
Normally closed in the winter, the restaurants will be open weekends starting in January. Lunch will be offered on Saturday, “Saturday Night Out” will be Saturday evening and then their popular Sunday Brunch will continue. Starting January 6 and running thirteen weeks through March, Telliquah will be bringing in local authors and entertainers every Saturday evening. “Saturday Night Out” will have a prix fixe dinner with a social time before dinner to meet the author or entertainer. It’s Telliquah’s version of dinner theater.
At lunch during the week, Telliquah has a special program this winter for groups of twenty or more. With advance notice, the group can be part of their “Lunch and Learn” event. The group first calls to schedule and then chooses the menu and the guest they would like to have speak during their luncheon. Options include authors, health and wellness professionals, fly fishing experts, artists and others.
Telliquah and Tellico Plains are an easy drive at about sixty miles from Knoxville and seventy-five from Chattanooga. Follow either I-75 or Highway 411 to Highway 68 (Sweetwater or Madisonville). Go east to Tellico Plains and take a left on the Cherohala Skyway, Highway 165. For more information, you can go to www.telliquah-preserve.com/cottages.html or phone 423-253-7360.
Why Telliquah?
“When we want to get away to the country, we’re already there! Just twenty short minutes to several destinations like the cascades of the Tellico River, Bald River Falls, Indian Boundary Lake, 4-wheeling and hiking in the mountains and then, our little piece of sanctuary, our cottage at Telliquah Preserve. But you ask, you’re already locals, so why would you buy a cottage there? Our point exactly. We like the area, we see what Tellico Plains will soon be and we want to be part of the best spot on the Cherohala Skyway and the Cherokee National Forest. All that and just twenty minutes from home!”
— Residents of Monroe County
“The area where the Cottages are located remind us a great deal of Estes Park in Colorado, an area which we are both very fond of. Tellico Plains and Telliquah are also very unique. They are surrounded by the Great Smoky Mountains and adjacent to millions of acres of National Parks and Forests and a variety of activities such as hiking, boating and fishing just to name a few. The Cottages front the Tellico River offering spectacular cascading water. These homesites are both unique and limited in number so the Cottages also represent a great investment opportunity. We can’t wait to move in!”
— Residents of Monroe County
