Big Canoe Hiker

The Disharoon Cabin was built long before the area became Big Canoe.  It can be found on the Cabin Loop Trail, which joins the Jeep Trail and the Lower Falls Trail in Big Canoe.

According to the Big Canoe Cabin website:  “Disharoon Cabin was originally located in the woods to the right of the entry road to Sconti Restaurant, off Wilderness Parkway.  It was the core of an ‘added-on-to’ house and typified the mountain homes that were on the property of Big Canoe at the time.  It was dismantled, moved and rebuilt in Nature Valley.  The mud chinking came from the creek near the existing site.”

Above is a sign near the Disharoon Cabin with a quote from The Foxfire Book. 

Here is the publisher’s description of this interesting book:  “In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians.  This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts and food, and other affairs of plain living.”

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1. Lower Falls Trail in Big Canoe
2. Hiking Big Bone Gardens
3. Volunteer to Help Wounded Vets in Big Canoe