Fontana Dam Resort Tennessee

Rivers edge treehouse resort offers comfort and style feel at one with the trees in an outdoor back to nature setting.

Fontana dam resort tennessee.

See 682 traveler reviews 493 candid photos and great deals for fontana village resort ranked 1 of 1 hotel in fontana dam and rated 3 5 of 5 at tripadvisor. Fontana village resort marina took to facebook on june 5 to announce its owners had decided to surrender its lease back to the tennessee valley authority tva as of june 1. Fontana reservoir occupies a site of particular splendor deep in the great smoky mountains. The dam was built to provide power for the war effort at the oakridge tn nuclear facility and to alleviate seasonal flooding in the greater tennessee river valley.

The highest dam east of the rocky mountains fontana is on the little tennessee river in western north carolina. Fontana village resort is located in western north carolina 20 miles north of robbinsville on highway 28 north on the western end of fontana lake. Guests who stay at fontana village resort see the world differently because they find inspiration in unexpected places. Construction of fontana dam began in 1942 and was completed in 1944.

Located at the bottom of the mountain below today s fontana village resort the dam s visitor center records. From mountain biking and hiking trails to time spent out on the lake our adventures and activities are united not by what makes them the same but by the remarkable things that make them different. Fontana dam is a 30 mile 48 km drive from the three nearest cities maryville tennessee to the west bryson city north carolina to the east and robbinsville north carolina to the south although the small resort of fontana village which has its roots as the temporary village where many of the workers constructing the dam were housed. Book fontana village resort fontana dam on tripadvisor.