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- Cherokee, North Carolina - Mac's Indian Village
Great news! I recently drove down to Cherokee and discovered Mac's Indian Village is open for business once again. I spoke with the new owner and was told they opened up only two months ago. Not all of the cabins are ready for guests yet, but more than half of them are. He said you can come stay a week for only about $160.00!
[Martha Stephens, 09/13/2007]Mac's Indian Village Cabins:- Address:
- 160 Teepee Drive, Cherokee, NC
- Directions:
- A mile or so south of town. There is a traffic light at the intersection of US-441 and Business 441 outside of downtown Cherokee. A plaza with a Food Lion and a McDonalds is on your right. If you are coming from the south, Teepee Drive is on your left just before the traffic light. Mac's Indian Village is about 100 yards past the Qualla Motel, on the right, nestled in the trees.
- Phone:
- 828-497-5161
An old-fashioned teepee roadhouse/cabin arrangement with painted sheet-metal teepee fronts on a series of rustic cabins -- no telephones, curious cylindrical floor-to-ceiling gas heaters, and intermittently working neon lights outlining said teepee fronts. I stayed there some years ago -- a swell experience. We used to go past it when I worked as an actor in UNTO THESE HILLS -- painted red with thespian shame. It was one of the first motels on the reservation, I'm told -- if not the first.
[Bruce Evers, 01/27/2003]October 2005: Tipster Martha Stephens reports Mac's Indian Village "closed down in August due to a sickness in the family. The owners are planning on selling it sometime within the next few months."
While driving up US-441 looking for a place to stay during a trip to Cherokee, NC, we noticed some red neon inverted "V" shapes glowing through the trees. We turned down Teepee Dr. and saw a brightly-lit old neon sign advertising Mac's Indian Village. To our delight, the inverted "V" neon lights were adorning 12 foot teepee-cabins!
Mac's Indian Village is about a dozen or so private cabins with giant teepee facades affixed to the front. These are different than the Wigwam villages in AZ and CA where you actually "sleep in a teepee". This is more like, "sleep in a cabin that has a huge teepee attached to it". We learned that Mac's Indian Village was built in 1934. They gave us several vintage postcards.
The ladies who run the place told us that the property was a location for the 1998 film "Digging to China" starring the omnipresent Kevin Bacon. We asked if the film's stars had stayed in the cabins during filming, and they replied no, that the movie stars stayed in their own trailers out back. Well, those Hollywood types don't know what they're missing. The room was decorated with an old framed Rock City print, to boot! Gotta love a roadside attraction that references another.
[Tony & Kimberly Paglia, 11/09/2002]
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April 2008: Mark and Sandra Fortner, the new owners, wrote that they've renovated Teepees 1-6 with paint, new floors, blinds, ceiling fans, and TVs.