BIG SOUTH FORK TENNESSEE: What is a "cabarn??"

I had never heard that term before I came to Tennessee, althought I was familiar with the "hunt box" you'll find in Virginia. It's a similar idea; a hunt box has a couple of stalls for horses with an apartment upstairs and is used for foxhunting in the country on weekends. When the Big South Fork became a destination for trail riders, many people built what is known as a "cabarn," which is a cabin/barn combination with small living quarters and some stalls, usually under a single roof. The shape is completely different from a hunt box; cabarns here tend to be more the size and shape of a single wide with an efficiency apartment on one end and a short row of stalls under an overhang. This was intended primarily for weekend use for riders coming from Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga or surrounding states for the spectacular trail riding in Big South Fork national park.

As people come here more and more often, though, they often want to upgrade to something larger. Cabarns come on the market periodically but there are more and more spacious homes being built as more people move to this area full time. 

For information about horse properties in the Big South Fork Tennessee area, www.trailridersrealestate.com