Picture yourself on the cabin porch with a view through the hardwood forest to the peaks of the Big Brushy Range of the Cumberland Mountains - The peaceful, quiet mountains of East Tennessee. The peaks may be snow capped if it's winter, and you may get a whiff of hardwood smoke from your cozy cabin's chimney, as a cheery fire crackles in the fireplace.  The woods may be ablaze with autumn's colors if it happens to be fall, or if it's springtime, the glory of wildflowers blooming alongside blossom bedecked dogwoods or redbuds.  Summer's abundant greenery shades the cool mountain air, rustling with the refreshing breezes.

    Close by is the Big South Fork National  River and Recreation Area with its tens of thousands of acres of wilderness, hundreds of miles of equestrian and hiking trails, white water rivers and small streams holding small mouth bass, rainbow trout and the occasional 25 inch long tackle-busting jackfish.   You will be able to view panoramas of the river gorge and unique geological formations such as natural stone arches throughout the recreation area.

    Also nearby is the Historic Rugby community, a 19th Century utopian settlement that is nestled in the woods at the southern end of the recreation area.  Take a stroll among the English cottages in the alpine woods and see how comfortable life could be even in the 1800's.  Enjoy a Shepherd's' Pie at supper time at the Harrow Road Cafe or solve the mystery of just exactly what Bubble and Squeak really is.

    Take a day trip to the northern end of the area and spend a day riding the train down into the gorge from Stearns, Kentucky to the old abandoned mining town of Blue Heron.  Pull up to the train platform at the station in Blue Heron and take the walking tour to the ghost structures that stand in for the tumbled down buildings that provided for the needs of the coal miners and their families years ago.  Step into the mouth of one of the old abandoned mines and step back to the early twentieth century as well.

     Cruise over to Pickett State Park and catch your dinner of rainbow trout in Pickett Lake.  Visit the high peaks at Frozen Head State Park near Wartburg and see East Tennessee laid at you feet.  Go and see the home territory of World War I hero, Sergeant Alvin C. York. Venture into Daniel Boone National Forest in the Kentucky section of Big South Fork.

     Whatever you do, know you will be returning to your cabin in the woods to have supper, build a fire, or just sit on the porch and listen to the Whip-or-wills' call. As the day on the old frontier draws to a close.  Come to the quietness you crave, come to Zenith Cove.