The Hike Inn - Fontana, NC - Your Home in the Smoky Mountains

Greetings from your hosts Jeff and Nancy Hoch, owners of the original "Hike Inn."

Are you planning your first hike? Your next section? Or need a night off the trail? Welcome to the HIKE INN! A service that specializes in transportation & accomondations for HIKERS ONLY. We are NOT a hostel. We offer 5 private rooms with private baths and allow 1 or 2 hikers per room.

Let us provide you with our "3 E's" EXPERIENCE - Our 18th year & over 30,000 hikers served ENTHUSIASM - We are hikers only by choice & truly enjoy our "work" ENCOURAGEMENT - We thrive on successful hikers.

We can help you with planning, strategy, weight distribution (mail drops), trail conditions, water sources, weather info, road directions and safe parking.

Conveniently located to the Appalachian Trail, Benton Mackaye Trail, Bartram Trail, the G.S.M.N.P., Slick Rock Wilderness/Joyce Kilmer Memorial, Nanthahala & Cherokee National Forests

OPEN FULL TIME Feb. 15th - July 10th & Sept. 1st - Dec. 1st. Reservations Suggested. Other dates by reservation only.