80 Range Dr, Maggie Valley, NC 28751

There is a version of mountain living everyone pictures before they start looking. Long views that hold all year. A house that lives easy on one floor. Room for everyone who wants to visit and a drive home you never think twice about. It usually takes a few showings to learn how rarely those things arrive together. They do here. The view is the reason you stop the car. Ridgeline after ridgeline running out toward historic Main Street Waynesville, and because the owners cleared for it deliberately, it stays that way in February and again in July when the trees shine green. The elevation is real, the air up here proves it in August, and the drive to reach it is the easy kind. Maggie Valley Country Club sits moments below, and Lake Junaluska and downtown Waynesville are only a quick drive when you want a little extra charm and adventure. Inside, the living room, dining and kitchen open to each other and to that view, through windows and glass doors onto a covered porch running more than 40 feet across the back of the house. Sit on that porch for 10 minutes and the quiet is the thing you will remember on the drive home. The home has been dramatically renovated and that renovation was built around what you see from the windows, right down to the palette, blues and creams that pick up the ridges and the clouds behind them. A floor-to-ceiling gas fireplace anchors the living room, the kitchen shines anew with updated cabinetry, new appliances, new granite and a breakfast bar for peo