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 After searching North and South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, Vikki Woods finally found a piece of property on which to build her log lodge bed and breakfast in Butler, TN. Although she had been looking for 10 acres, she ended up with 140 which back up to the Cherokee National Forest.
Returning to Connecticut to put her house up for sale (and get rid of all the stuff accumulated over 29 years raising a family), Vikki was soon fast into designing and planning her "perfect" Bed and Breakfast! Measuring rooms to get the right sizes and thinking about all the things she liked in homes, hotels and resorts, she came up with the final design and amenities.
The Connecticut house sold, so in August, 1997 Vikki moved lock, stock and barrel to Butler in Northeast Tennessee just over from Boone, NC and Damascus, VA. Putting her two dogs and two cats, clothing and a few other odds and ends in the horse trailer, she headed down 81 to her new life.
Luckily there was an RV on the property with a covering and a deck and this is where Vikki and her animal family lived for 8 and one-half months while supervising the building of the Inn. Trudging up the mountainside each day, she oversaw the carpenters, plumbers, electricans, sheet rockers, kitchen builders, well diggers and road builders as they turned the mountaintop into the Iron Mountain Inn Bed & Breakfast.
By May of 1998, the Inn was ready to receive guests. And ever since it has been a respite for our guests who "arrive as strangers and leave as friends".
Vikki has traveled widely both in the US and in Europe. Fell in love with Greece and Ireland, loved hearing Shakespere’s plays in England and opera at the Baths of Caracalla, but now finds her traveling is mostly to watch her granddaughter compete in gymnastics competions.
 She has had a checkered career - the year she was married, she had 7 W-2 forms at the end of the year! But now, she has found her calling as an Innkeeper in the Mountains. No matter who you are, what your interests are, Vikki would love to meet you and share the magic of the mountains with you. So give us a call! 423-768-2446 or email us - remember, in every season there is a reason to visit Northeastern Tennessee.
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