Motorcycle *centric* hotels, motels, cabins, etc in western NC? Where have you been, and can recommend.

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I tend to plan my trips solo, so it’s nice to lodge where other riders are lodging. Food, gas, and beer, close by is always a nice plus.

I’ll list the ones I know of. Please add to the list.

-Two Wheel Inn - Robbinsville NC, stayed there last year. Would stay again.
-Lodge at Tellico - Tellico Plains, TN, stayed there a few weeks ago. Would stay again.
-Big Lyn Lodge - Little Switzerland, NC, not necessarily “motorcycle centric” but popular with riders, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Have stayed and would stay again.


Iron Horse Motorcycle Lodge and Resort - outside Robbinsville, NC. Haven’t stayed there yet.
Riders Roost, Ferguson, NC (not too terribly far from Wilkesboro but not really close to anything that I can tell, i.e. gas, food, etc) haven’t stayed there yet.
 
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I can highly recommend Big Lyn Lodge in Little Switzerland. The food and staff is excellent. Rooms are clean (nothing pretentious), and reasonably priced.
 
I've stayed at the Iron Horse cabins several times and recommend it. They fix meals you can buy when you check in, not my restaurants around. If I remember correctly, you have to bring your beer as it's a dry county.
 
beamernc said:
If I remember correctly, you have to bring your beer as it's a dry county.
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The county finally voted that down a year ago. I don’t think they have a liquor store but definitely beer available in Robbinsville.
 
I can not add any motorcycle “centric” stays, but I’ve parked in line and talked to a lot of other bikers at the resort in Cherokee at the casino and just about every hotel on Teaster Ln in Pigeon Forge. I’m not sure which one, but a stay in Hot Springs is definitely on the list for us.
 
fieldgrade said:
The county finally voted that down a year ago. I don’t think they have a liquor store but definitely beer available in Robbinsville.
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That may not be a good thing, that’s a wild crowd of folks that live/from out there, or the ones I’ve encountered. Not a lot of F’s to be passed around.
 
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SimpleMan said:
That may not be a good thing, that’s a wild crowd of folks that live/from out there, or the ones I’ve encountered. Not a lot of F’s to be passed around.
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They are outnumbered by us interlopers from elsewhere.
 
SimpleMan said:
That may not be a good thing, that’s a wild crowd of folks that live/from out there, or the ones I’ve encountered. Not a lot of F’s to be passed around.
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Can confirm. My grandma and her side of the family was born and raised there. I lived there for a while and…..yeah they are some wild folks.
 
fieldgrade said:
They are outnumbered by us interlopers from elsewhere.
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You can’t get enough interlopers into Graham County to outnumber them, if they don’t want to be outnumbered. I’m telling ‘ya, there’s some real tough fellas out there.
 
SimpleMan said:
You can’t get enough interlopers into Graham County to outnumber them, if they don’t want to be outnumbered. I’m telling ‘ya, there’s some real tough fellas out there.
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I imagine if all those Graham county badasses were living there when it was dry, they were driving one county over if they wanted to wet their whistles.
 
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fieldgrade said:
Not skeered.

Are you?
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No sir, and even less stupid. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve ridden up there plenty, also been up there for work plenty too. I love that place, but they’ve got some people up there that will let you find out long before you start F’n around.
 
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It's been quite a few years since I've been there but more than once we stayed at the Rosewood Inn in Bryson City. It's a motel built in the 1950's that seems to be stuck in a time warp. It was not fancy but it was clean, there was coffee brewing in the office every morning, every room had two rocking chairs out front and when you got up there would be a towel draped across your motorcycle seat to wipe off the dew.

It's withing walking distance of the Everette Street Diner. If you go to Google maps street view there's an Ultra Classic pulling out of the parking lot.

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Gator said:
It's been quite a few years since I've been there but more than once we stayed at the Rosewood Inn in Bryson City. It's a motel built in the 1950's that seems to be stuck in a time warp. It was not fancy but it was clean, there was coffee brewing in the office every morning, every room had two rocking chairs out front and when you got up there would be a towel draped across your motorcycle seat to wipe off the dew.

It's withing walking distance of the Everette Street Diner. If you go to Google maps street view there's an Ultra Classic pulling out of the parking lot.

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This is exactly the kind of place I look for. Thanks.
And I like Bryson City.

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Oh no. Google says they are permanently closed.
 
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fieldgrade said:
This is exactly the kind of place I look for. Thanks.
And I like Bryson City.
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Once we stayed at a place kinda across the street from the Rosewood. A queen bed was literally two twins pushed together, the door hit the bed and wouldn't open fully. Don't stay there.

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The Hampton Inn in Murphy is another place we stayed a few times. Very accommodating. No problem parking motorcycles up front under the porch if you're so inclined.

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Ash, if you decide to ride up around Woolwine sometime.

DO NOT stay at the Virginian Motel in Stuart, Va.
Friends did one night and said they'd sleep on the sidewalk if they could not find any where else to stay.
 
Another, along the same theme as the Rosewood Inn is the Luray Caverns Motel in Luray, VA. Pretty good home cooking restaurant too far up the street.

Once, on a solo road trip, I stayed there. Got to talking with two older riders who took a 3 week trip to the west coast. Got close enough to the Golden Gate Bridge they could see it but couldn't figure out how to get to it to ride across.

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One thing I am finding about many of these spots. They have recently changed hands. Lodge at Tellico, new owners in the last two years. Same with Two Wheel Inn in Robbinsville, and Blowing Rock Inn that I didn’t mention. They are not “bike centric” but the wife and I have stayed there twenty years. You do get riders there.

Tuggles Gap Roadside Inn right off the parkway below Floyd VA recently changed hands and appears to be for the better.
 
I will add just about every hotel in Maggie Valley is bike friendly some more so than others offering covered parking and/towels to dry of seats etc. One I can't recall next to a gas station has a drive way that could be tricky.
 
ronn47 said:
Ash, if you decide to ride up around Woolwine sometime.

DO NOT stay at the Virginian Motel in Stuart, Va.
Friends did one night and said they'd sleep on the sidewalk if they could not find any where else to stay.
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That is a nasty looking place.

Another nasty place is stokes county. Not a place to be riding a motorcycle.
 
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