STR Select ranks 7 companies that name Pigeon Forge, TN in their service areas, out of 7 ranked in the Smoky Mountains and 6 more evaluated without a rank, with facts checked October 22, 2026. The highest ranked of them is Short Term Coops, #1 of 7 in the Smoky Mountains.
Pigeon Forge is the entertainment corridor of the Smokies, anchored by Dollywood and a dense strip of family attractions that keeps demand steady well outside leaf season. Rentals here skew toward larger group cabins built for theme park trips rather than the quieter cabins closer to the park boundary.
Updated October 22, 2026What changed in October 2026: Added a sourced FAQ on Cabins of the Smoky Mountains' updated cabin count and softened "largest" claim, verified October 22, 2026.
7 of the managers in our Smoky Mountains ranking name Pigeon Forge or its townships in their stated service areas, which for a Pigeon Forge owner means Short Term Coops, Elk Springs Resort, Cabins For You, Compass Vacation Properties, Cabins of the Smoky Mountains, Fireside Chalets, Eden Crest Vacation Rentals, along with Bear Camp Cabin Rentals and Bear Tootin' Cabin Rentals and Auntie Belham's Cabin Rentals and Hearthside Cabin Rentals and Parkside Cabin Rentals and VTrips from wider Smoky Mountains books that reach Pigeon Forge. Full service in Pigeon Forge typically runs Most companies quote privately. The ranks below are market ranks across the Smoky Mountains, not ranks inside Pigeon Forge alone, and Pigeon Forge owners compare the same 7 ranked managers as the rest of the Smoky Mountains.
Ranks for Pigeon Forge are from our full Smoky Mountains evaluation, where all 13 companies below were scored on the printed methodology before we asked which of them name Pigeon Forge.
Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want the exact fee base defined in writing before they sign
Short Term Coops names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Short Term Coops terms at shorttermcoops.com.
Visit Short Term Coops for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want one company naming all four towns in a single published sentence
Elk Springs Resort names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Sevier County, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Elk Springs Resort terms at elkspringsresort.com.
Visit Elk Springs Resort for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want the simplest published percentage in this market
Cabins For You names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Cabins For You terms at cabinsforyou.com.
Visit Cabins For You for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners across the widest published service area in this market
Compass Vacation Properties names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Compass Vacation Properties terms at compassvacationproperties.com.
Visit Compass Vacation Properties for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want a company with a staffed, physical Gatlinburg presence and all four towns covered
Cabins of the Smoky Mountains names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Cabins of the Smoky Mountains terms at cabinsofthesmokymountains.com.
Visit Cabins of the Smoky Mountains for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want the longest operating history in this market
Fireside Chalets names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Fireside Chalets terms at firesidechalets.com.
Visit Fireside Chalets for Pigeon Forge ↗Best for a Pigeon Forge owner: Owners who want one all-inclusive fee rather than itemized pass-through charges, even without a published number
Eden Crest Vacation Rentals names Pigeon Forge or its townships in its stated service area, working from Sevier County, Tennessee, so a Pigeon Forge owner can read the Eden Crest Vacation Rentals terms at edencrest.com.
Visit Eden Crest Vacation Rentals for Pigeon Forge ↗Also covering Pigeon Forge as part of wider Smoky Mountains service areas: Bear Camp Cabin Rentals (visit site ↗), Bear Tootin' Cabin Rentals (visit site ↗), Auntie Belham's Cabin Rentals (visit site ↗), Hearthside Cabin Rentals (visit site ↗), Parkside Cabin Rentals (visit site ↗) and VTrips (visit site ↗). All appear in our full evaluation.
13 companies name Pigeon Forge in a service area we checked: 7 ranked and 6 evaluated without a rank. 2 of them publish a fee with a number on the company's own site; the rest quote on request to a Pigeon Forge owner. Counting the 3 towns we list in Smoky Mountains, Short Term Coops names 3, Elk Springs Resort names 3, Cabins For You names 3, Compass Vacation Properties names 3, Cabins of the Smoky Mountains names 3, Fireside Chalets names 2 and Eden Crest Vacation Rentals names 3 in its stated service area. Bases stated on their own sites: for Pigeon Forge homes Short Term Coops works from Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee, for Pigeon Forge homes Elk Springs Resort works from Sevier County, Tennessee, for Pigeon Forge homes Cabins For You works from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, for Pigeon Forge homes Compass Vacation Properties works from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for Pigeon Forge homes Cabins of the Smoky Mountains works from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, for Pigeon Forge homes Fireside Chalets works from Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and for Pigeon Forge homes Eden Crest Vacation Rentals works from Sevier County, Tennessee, which tells a Pigeon Forge owner how far each office sits from the home. 7 of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains managers name Pigeon Forge, which is 100%, so the other 0 ranked managers do not list Pigeon Forge in a service area we checked and a Pigeon Forge owner should ask them before assuming coverage.
Pigeon Forge is one of 3 town guides under The Smoky Mountains, and this Pigeon Forge page was last updated October 22, 2026.
| Manager | Rank in the Smoky Mountains | Base | Model | Published fee | Homes on record in Pigeon Forge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short Term Coops in Pigeon Forge | #1 | Pigeon Forge area, Tennessee | Full service, in-house | Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, published | |
| Elk Springs Resort in Pigeon Forge | #2 | Sevier County, Tennessee | Full service | ||
| Cabins For You in Pigeon Forge | #3 | Gatlinburg, Tennessee | Full service | 10% management fee, published | 1 |
| Compass Vacation Properties in Pigeon Forge | #4 | Pigeon Forge, Tennessee | Full service, family owned | ||
| Cabins of the Smoky Mountains in Pigeon Forge | #5 | Gatlinburg, Tennessee | Full service | ||
| Fireside Chalets in Pigeon Forge | #6 | Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee | Full service | ||
| Eden Crest Vacation Rentals in Pigeon Forge | #7 | Sevier County, Tennessee | Full service, all-inclusive management fee | ||
| Bear Camp Cabin Rentals in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked | ||||
| Bear Tootin' Cabin Rentals in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked | ||||
| Auntie Belham's Cabin Rentals in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked | ||||
| Hearthside Cabin Rentals in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked | ||||
| Parkside Cabin Rentals in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked | ||||
| VTrips in Pigeon Forge | Evaluated, not ranked |
Pigeon Forge, TN is covered by the Pigeon Forge row of our Smoky Mountains registration dataset, in Sevier County, last checked October 8, 2026. The Pigeon Forge figures below are that row's published fields; a field the source does not state is left out rather than guessed for Pigeon Forge.
The Pigeon Forge row publishes 0 of the 7 registration fields we track for Pigeon Forge, and the 7 it does not state are left out of the Pigeon Forge table rather than guessed.
3 tax rates with a published number apply to a stay in Pigeon Forge, each linked to the page it was read from for Pigeon Forge.
| 7% | Tennessee state sales tax on a Pigeon Forge stay source |
| capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county | Local option sales tax on a Pigeon Forge stay source |
| 2.50% | Pigeon Forge local tax on a Pigeon Forge stay source |
Rule sources for Pigeon Forge, checked October 8, 2026: cityofpigeonforgetn.gov, cityofpigeonforgetn.gov.
Pigeon Forge has 1 home on record across 1 manager in the Smoky Mountains property ledger. Each Pigeon Forge home is a row we sourced from the company's own published list or a claim-flow self-report, linked below with the date we checked it for Pigeon Forge.
1 of the 1 home on record in Pigeon Forge comes from a manager’s own published property list, and the newest Pigeon Forge row was checked October 7, 2026.
| Manager | Homes in Pigeon Forge | Property rows |
|---|---|---|
| Cabins For You #3 | 1 | Bear Clubhouse |
2 other towns in the Smoky Mountains market share at least one ranked manager with Pigeon Forge. If you own across town lines near Pigeon Forge, a manager already named for both saves you a second vetting of Pigeon Forge terms.
Every company source used on this Pigeon Forge page, from each company's own site, checked October 22, 2026. 17 unique sources for Pigeon Forge, in a Smoky Mountains market of 7 ranked companies.
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Answered from the sourced research behind our Smoky Mountains ranking.
Compass Vacation Properties and Hearthside Cabin Rentals are both based in Pigeon Forge. Short Term Coops, Elk Springs Resort, Cabins For You, Cabins of the Smoky Mountains, Fireside Chalets and Eden Crest Vacation Rentals all name Pigeon Forge in their stated service areas too.
It is the family attraction hub of the market, anchored by Dollywood, which drives demand outside leaf season more reliably than the quieter towns nearby. Larger group cabins built for multi-family theme park trips tend to do best here.
Rechecking cabinsofthesmokymountains.com on October 22, 2026, its site now states over 200 rental cabins and describes the company as one of the largest cabin rental companies in the Smoky Mountains, a softer claim than the "the largest" wording we noted before. It still names Pigeon Forge directly in its published service area.
The rows with a published number for Pigeon Forge are Tennessee state sales tax at 7%, Local option sales tax at capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county and Pigeon Forge local tax at 2.50%. Each Pigeon Forge rate is linked to its source on this page and checked October 8, 2026.
Cabins For You (1) has 1 home on record in Pigeon Forge, each row sourced from the company's own list or a claim-flow self-report.
Short Term Coops (#1), Elk Springs Resort (#2), Cabins For You (#3), Compass Vacation Properties (#4), Cabins of the Smoky Mountains (#5), Fireside Chalets (#6) and Eden Crest Vacation Rentals (#7) name Pigeon Forge or its townships in their stated service areas, and each of them ranks in the Smoky Mountains rather than in Pigeon Forge alone.
Short Term Coops at Flat 20% of net rental revenue plus a $75 monthly technology fee, published and Cabins For You at 10% management fee, published publish a fee among the 7 ranked managers that serve Pigeon Forge.
Short Term Coops is the highest ranked of the 7 that serve Pigeon Forge, at #1 of 7 in the Smoky Mountains. The order is from our printed methodology, not from Pigeon Forge.
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