PHOTOS: Elkmont Clubhouse, cabins & campground in the Smoky Mountains

The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions, etc. Bob Whiteman and maintenance workers were setting up furniture inside the clubhouse Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 to make photographs for their website.

National Park Service Ranger Bob Whiteman photographs the ballroom of the Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions and other gatherings.

The ballroom area of the Appalachian Club at Elkmont the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been restored and will be available for renting in the spring. National Park Service workers continue to restore a handful of other cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan which addresses preserving the historic district of Elkmont. Photo taken 2/9/2011.

The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions, etc. Bob Whiteman and maintenance workers were setting up furniture inside the clubhouse Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 to make photographs for their website.

The Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont is seen Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions and other gatherings.

Reusable items from the Spence Cabin at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are stored in one room as the cabin is being restored. National Park Service workers continue to restore a handful of other cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan which addresses preserving the historic district of Elkmont. Photo taken 2/8/2011.

The Appalachian Club at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been restored and will be available for renting in the spring. National Park Service workers continue to restore a handful of other cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan which addresses preserving the historic district of Elkmont. Photo taken 2/8/2011.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Appalachian Clubhouse (seen here in 2009 before restoration) and the associated cabins at Elkmont. The clubhouse is being restored by the park for day use.

This cabin was built by Col. David Chapman in a section of Elkmont called Society Hill. Some cabins, including the Chapman cabin, and the Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont are being restored for educational day use by the park. Photo taken 7/10/2009

The Higdon cabin at right was built by combining three 12 by 12 foot railroad cabins. The Higdons also added a log clubhouse for their daughter to the side. Another story for the 75th anniversary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park about the Appalachian Clubhouse and associated cabins at Elkmont. Photo taken 7/10/2009.

Volunteers from the Y-12 National Security Complex and UT-Batelle at Oak Ridge National Laboratory do service work at the Elkmont Campground amphitheater Saturday, April 16, 2016, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Volunteers from Y-12 and ORNL have marked 20 years of service in the Smokies.

The Elkmont Special takes tourists from Knoxville to Elkmont about 1915, a trip that took about two hours. It was published in Steve Cotham's book on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo from GSMNP archives.

Gary Zbel (cq), with the National Park Service, is proud of the fact that they were able to save the lattice work on the front of the Spence Cabin at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Appalachian Club and Spence Cabin at Elkmont in the Smokies are being restored and should be available for renting in the spring. National Park Service workers continue to restore a handful of other cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan which addresses preserving the historic district of Elkmont.

The Appalachian Club at Elkmont in tthe Great Smoky Mountains National Park, pictured Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, has been restored and will be available for renting in the spring. The National Park Service is restoring 18 cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan for preserving the historic district of Elkmont.

The Appalachian Club at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been restored and will be available for renting in the spring. National Park Service workers continue to restore a handful of other cabins and buildings as part of the park's management plan which addresses preserving the historic district of Elkmont.

A 4 feet x 1 foot antique window, the second panel from the right, has been stolen from a historic cabin in the Elkmont Historic District in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Park officials are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals responsible for the theft.

Alex Bermuda fishing in the Little River along the road to Elkmont Campgrounds in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016.

Volunteers from Y-12 National Security Complex and UT-Batelle at Oak Ridge National Laboratory do service work at the Elkmont campground amphitheater Saturday, April 16, 2016, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The volunteers from Y-12 and ORNL have marked 20 years of service in the Smokies.

In 1965, the Appalachian Club in Elkmont was open only to members.

An undated photo of the Wonderland Hotel annex which burned to the ground on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The 8,600 square-foot building associated with the former Wonderland Hotel contained 24 guest rooms, a common area, and a screened porch. It was slated for removal pending available funding.

An undated photo of the Wonderland Hotel annex which burned to the ground on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The 8,600 square-foot building associated with the former Wonderland Hotel contained 24 guest rooms, a common area, and a screened porch. It was slated for removal pending available funding. (NATIONAL PARK SERVICE)

An undated photo of the Wonderland Hotel annex which burned to the ground on Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The 8,600 square-foot building associated with the former Wonderland Hotel contained 24 guest rooms, a common area, and a screened porch. It was slated for removal pending available funding.

National Park Service workers Bundy Valentine, left, and Bill Carroll arrange furniture in the Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions and other gatherings.

The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions, etc. Bob Whiteman and maintenance workers were setting up furniture inside the clubhouse Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 to make photographs for their website.

Visitors carrying red-filter flashlights walk the Little River Trail to observe synchronous fireflies in their annual mating ritual at Elkmont on Tuesday, June 3, 2014, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (ADAM LAU/NEWS SENTINEL)

Rob Taylor photographed his wife, Shannon, interacting with synchronous fireflies earlier this month at Elkmont in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Taylor first photographed his wife in daylight, capturing her image with a Nikon D800e, a f2.8 24-70mm lens, and an off-camera flash. This photo became the base for a series of 30 second night exposures that were stacked using Capture NX2 and Photoshop.

The Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont is seen Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions and other gatherings.

The Elkmont Chapel at Valley View Baptist Church in Wears Valley, Tenn., was reconstructed in 1938 after it was moved from the Elkmont area inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

1110dogwood.CC.JPG--living----"Fireflies at Elkmont" was chosen for the 2003 Dogwood Arts Festival print.

One of the 78-odd cottages in the Elkmont Historic District in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2004. The National Park Service is holding public meetings about whether they should be torn down or not.

Kelly Prestwood (cq) of Asheville, N.C., stacks firewood in the Elkmont campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as he prepares for a week of camping with his family Monday, June 29, 2009.

No trespassing signs warn visitors away from the 78-odd cottages in the Elkmont Historic District in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2004. The National Park Service is holding public meetings about whether they should be torn down or not.

The 77-year-old Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont has been restored and is now available for weddings, reunions, etc. Bob Whiteman and maintenance workers were setting up furniture inside the clubhouse Friday, Apr. 22, 2011 to make photographs for their website.

The Appalachian Club at Elkmont had it's own stop on the Little River Lumber Co. railroad. The photograph is from the 1920s.

The Elkmont Historic District in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The final stretch of January's hike of the month from the Cucumber Gap Trail to the parking area in Elkmont passes several dilapidated cabins which are no longer in use Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.

The final stretch of January's hike of the month from the Cucumber Gap Trail to the parking area in Elkmont passes several dilapidated cabins which are no longer in use Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010.

The Little River Company Store at Fish Camp, dated 1913. The McCarters lived another two and a half miles up the track at right, above the store near the mouth of Fish Camp Prong, which itself was four miles upstream from Little River Lumber Company's logging camp at Elkmont. The track at the left went to Three forks and beyond, very nearly to the crest of Clingmans dome, highest peak in the Smokies and dimly visible in the distance directly above the store building.

W.E. Webb, inventor of EX-LAX, native of Knoxville and early visitor to Elkmont.

A large crowd views the Daddy Bryson Wreck - Little River Lumber Co., Elkmont, mouth of Jakes Creek, June 30, 1909.

The Elkmont Historic District in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Linda Montgomery walks the Elkmont Campground in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The retiree from Oak Ridge spends an average of six months a year along with her husband, Charlie Montgomery, volunteering and living at Elkmont and helping to see that campers follow park rules. Photo by Amy Smotherman Burgess, Knoxville News Sentinel staff

Volunteer Linda Montgomery, left, relays a message for a camper at the Elkmont Campground on July 25, 2008 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The retiree from Oak Ridge spends an average of six months a year along with her husband, Charlie Montgomery, volunteering and living at Elkmont and helping to see that campers follow park rules.

Dr. W.A. Parker from Knoxville relaxes on the porch of the Wonderland Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1989. Parker has been coming to the hotel for fifty years. He was an employee of the Wonderland as a boy, getting paid $. 25 cents a week for bringing water to guests from a nearby spring.

The Wonderland Hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park about the Appalachian Clubhouse and the associated cabins at Elkmont. The clubhouse is being restored by the park for day use.

This cabin was built by Col. David Chapman in a section of Elkmont called Society Hill. Some cabins, including the Chapman cabin, and the Appalachian Clubhouse at Elkmont are being restored for educational day use by the park.

The Higdon cabin at right was built by combining three 12 by 12 foot railroad cabins. The Higdons also added a log clubhouse for their daughter to the side. Another story for the 75th anniversary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park about the Appalachian Clubhouse and asociated cabins at Elkmont.

The Creekmore cabin, right, pictured July 10, 2009, is one of several Elkmont cabins in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park which will be restored by the National Park Service for educational use.