The Rivergate Mountain Lodge is a boutique hotel featuring clean spacious rooms, pillow-top mattresses, upgraded amenities, furnishings, and private balconies overlooking the Pigeon River. The lodge is centrally located to all the popular attractions and restaurants near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and everything Pigeon Forge has to o’er. It is the perfect spot for a family vacation or a romantic getaway.

In its long history, the Lodge has been veteran, and family owned. The hotel was first built by Fred and Pat Maples in the 1990s and was initially named American Rivergate Inn, then Rivergate Inn and then initially Rivergate Mountain Lodge and Wedding Chapel. The family performed wedding services for small parties for many couples. The hotel for many years served as a place for many cherished memories and for those just wanting a riverside get-away. Sadly, Fred, a WWII army veteran, passed away in 2015 and Pat sold the motel to a new family.
Rivergate Mountain Lodge is now owned by Jim and Judy Searcy, carrying on the veteran-owned tradition of the hotel.

Jim Searcy, an army veteran, has been a beef cattle farmer and home builder in Carrolton, Kentucky for many years. His wife Judy, also from a farming family, was keen on landscaping, owners and southern interior design. The first changes to Rivergate were to have a virtual check-in to meet demands for the technological changes in the hospitality world. We’ve opened
the lodge to accommodate guests all year long including Christmas through spring. Over the past five years, the Searcy family has updated the exterior and interior of the 15-room riverside hotel. All rooms have been remodeled and updated and new furnishings with each room having a unique upscale décor. The wedding chapel has been removed, and the space was
converted to additional riverside suites. Landscaping, decking and additional free parking were other improvements to the hotel. The exterior was painted, and the soundproof doors updated.

All our guests will continue to enjoy well-appointed rooms with the beauty of the Smoky Mountains all around. The hotel has 15 smoke-free rooms and travelers can book a double queen, an executive double queen, or a king with jacuzzi. In the spacious rooms, our guests will have all the amenities they need, such as air conditioning, in-room coffee makers, pillowtop
mattresses, cable TV, free Wi-Fi, refrigerators, hairdryers and microwave ovens. There is a picnic area deck on the property at Rivergate Mountain Lodge that overlooks the river access and view.

Although our guests won’t )nd an on-site restaurant, there are over 20 o’-property restaurants within less than a half-mile of the hotel. A three-minute walk will get guests to The Funnel Cake
Factory to satisfy a sweet tooth. One minute more and there’s The Pottery House Café and Grille, The Old Mill Restaurant, and Old Mill Creamery. Pigeon Forge has a lot of allures that guests will want to see. The Island at Pigeon Forge is a shopping area that has lots of restaurants, entertaining things to do, bars, and unique shops. Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner
Attraction, the Smoky Mountain Car Museum, the Titanic Museum, and other popular places of interest not far away. The LeConte Convention Center is a 15-minute walk from Rivergate Mountain Lodge. Dollywood is about a 15-minute drive, or you can take the trolley shuttle only minutes away. We welcome you and hope that you enjoy your trip to East Tennessee and the Rivergate Mountain Lodge