$399,000

35 BREATHTAKING, UNRESTRICTED ACRES in EAST TENNESSEE Your homestead, off-grid retreat, or multi-family living starts here! Escape to complete seclusion with room to grow your own food, raise livestock, and build your dream. These gorgeous, heavily wooded acres offer endless possibilities for a single-family home, multigenerational compound, or several off-grid cabins--with timber on the property for your DIY vision. Bring your chickens, cows, goats, and horses, plant a garden, and enjoy peace and tranquility on or off the grid! Ready for your plans: Survey and soil map completed and on file, with multiple areas perked/soil mapped and a previous survey dividing the acreage into seven parcels. A gravel driveway, gated entrance, and solar gate lights welcome you home. Has great cell service and electricity & high-speed internet are available at the road. Approximately 1,500' of year-round, spring-fed creek runs within the property boundaries. A forager's dream, featuring wild blackberries, black raspberries, mushrooms, muscadine grapes, wild herbs, elderberries, figs, fruiting mulberries, plum trees, and other fruit trees. Old logging roads and trails invite exploring and recreation, with turtles and excellent, successful hunting for deer, turkey, and other game. Included are two well built Amish-built sheds and three 250 gal. water storage tanks. Official timber farm in Greenbelt status, low taxes (currently $180.83 per year), and a tax exemption for improvement supplies. Tucked into the hills of the Smoky Mountains! Nearby visit Cherokee National Forest, fish the world-class Tellico River, tube down the river, and explore waterfalls, and the Tail of the Dragon just minutes away! Approx. 11 minutes to historic downtown Tellico Plains with local restaurants, shops, visitor center. and the Cherohala Skyway. Only 16 minutes to the Mennonite market for fresh veggies, baked goods, plants, furniture, salves, and other items. 18 minutes to Walmart, and within an hour of Knoxville Airport. Buyers to verify all information in the listing. Some are drone and some are during individual seasons of the year.