Brinegar Cabin

Informative Ranger

We stopped by after leaving Doughton Park picnic area and found it to be very interesting. The ranger inside the cabin was working on weaving a rug. She was really informative and told us about the pe...

Great feel for the life in the mountains

This small cabin, garden and out buildings are nicely annotated to educate the visitor about the life of the Brinegars during their lives here and the building of the Parkway.

I loved this cabin. It really made me think.

What a remarkable woman!! Mrs. Brinegar lived a busy life in the 1800's, I would guess. That little cabin really made me realize how hard they had to work, and yet how happy they must have been.

Brinegar Cabin is not near Asheville

It is at milepost 281.5 at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I just wanted to make this correction. My mother and her friend worked there and ran the Cabin for 23 years. They sold handmade cra...

Lovely

This cabin is fascinating, but really not near Asheville. I found it on TripAdvisor "things to do in Asheville", but it is pretty close to my home in Alleghany County...three hours from asheville.