Last updated September 14, 2026
STR Select ranks Fireside Chalets #6 of 7 ranked short term rental managers in the Smoky Mountains (16 evaluated), with facts checked October 2026.
Full service short term rental management · Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Best for: Owners who want the longest operating history in this market.
Fireside Chalets has operated since 1999 per its own copyright footer, the longest sourced history among the companies we evaluated. It covers Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and named resort communities including Wears Valley. Sevierville is not named on its site, so we do not claim it. No fee or review score is published.
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and named communities including Wears Valley source |
| Base | Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee |
| Management fee | Not published checked October 2026 |
| Founded | 1999, per their site copyright footer |
| Licensee | FIRESIDE CHALETS, LLC |
| License type | Vacation Lodging Service Firm |
| Number | 64 |
| Status | Active |
| Expires | December 31, 2026 |
| Register | State license lookup checked October 14, 2026 |
No verified property list on record for Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains. As of November 9, 2026, Fireside Chalets posts no portfolio for the Smoky Mountains on firesidechalets.com that we could find. A ledger for Fireside Chalets starts from a list Fireside Chalets publishes itself, so Fireside Chalets’s ledger stays empty until Fireside Chalets lists its homes. Until then an owner weighing Fireside Chalets can read Fireside Chalets’s pages on firesidechalets.com for any home count, then hold that against the figures printed here.
Claim this listing to submit your property list →Fireside Chalets sits in the Smoky Mountains evaluation as rank 6 of 7, and the Fireside Chalets figures for Smoky Mountains below are the ones we hold on record for Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains. 5 ranked managers sit above Fireside Chalets and 1 sits below Fireside Chalets; 9 more companies were evaluated beside Fireside Chalets without a rank.
| Position of Fireside Chalets | Rank 6 of 7 ranked, 16 evaluated in the Smoky Mountains |
| Model | Full service |
| Base | Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee |
| Service area | Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and named communities including Wears Valley |
| Fee checked | October 2026 |
| Market page checked for Fireside Chalets | October 21, 2026 |
Fireside Chalets names 2 towns we hold registration rules for in the Smoky Mountains: Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Each paragraph below for Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains is taken from that town's own published rules for Fireside Chalets owners, checked on the date shown.
Fireside Chalets operates in Gatlinburg (Sevier County) in the Smoky Mountains, and per the town's own rules registration required of Fireside Chalets in Gatlinburg: yes; Fireside Chalets permit: Tourist Residency Permit; Fireside Chalets permit fee: $200 for a unit with two or fewer bedrooms, plus $75 for each additional bedroom. Covers the fire and building inspection.; Fireside Chalets inspection: yes, fire and building inspection tied to the permit fee, checked October 8, 2026, and Fireside Chalets owners in Gatlinburg work under that rule set.
For a Fireside Chalets owner outside Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, 4 of 5 the Smoky Mountains jurisdictions require registration; Fireside Chalets owners should check the home’s town against that file, dated October 8, 2026.
For Fireside Chalets, 2 of 5 Smoky Mountains jurisdictions list a fee with a number, and 3 require an inspection, which a Fireside Chalets owner should price into year one.
| Tennessee state sales tax on a Fireside Chalets stay | 7% |
| Local option sales tax on a Fireside Chalets stay | capped at 2.75% by the state, set per county |
| Pigeon Forge local tax on a Fireside Chalets stay | 2.50% |
| Gatlinburg local tax on a Fireside Chalets stay | 3% |
Fireside Chalets is one of 16 managers in the Smoky Mountains evaluation, and the Fireside Chalets figures below set Fireside Chalets against the rest of the Smoky Mountains market, with the firesidechalets.com record as the reference point for Fireside Chalets.
Fireside Chalets lists no homes of its own. Of the 10 homes on record in the Smoky Mountains, Fireside Chalets holds none, because only 1 manager publishes a property list, and Fireside Chalets is not one of them.
Of the 7 ranked Smoky Mountains peers of Fireside Chalets, 2 print a fee with a number, and Fireside Chalets is not one of them.
| Typical range in the Smoky Mountains to hold Fireside Chalets against | Most companies quote privately; published rates found range from 10% to a flat 20% of net revenue |
| Managers publishing a rate, Fireside Chalets included or not | 2 of 16 evaluated |
| Fee index updated for the Smoky Mountains row of Fireside Chalets | September 2026 |
| Ranked managers in the Smoky Mountains with a published fee, Fireside Chalets included or not | 2 of 7 |
Inside the Smoky Mountains ranking, Fireside Chalets sits at rank 6 next to Cabins of the Smoky Mountains at rank 5 and Eden Crest Vacation Rentals at rank 7, and in the Smoky Mountains the order between Fireside Chalets, Cabins of the Smoky Mountains and Eden Crest Vacation Rentals follows the printed methodology.
Fireside Chalets is based at Gatlinburg / Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, runs a full service management model and was founded 1999, per their site copyright footer, as stated on firesidechalets.com.
For the Smoky Mountains, Fireside Chalets states its service area as gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and named communities including Wears Valley.
For the contract terms of Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains we read firesidechalets.com on October 15, 2026, and none of those Fireside Chalets pages prints a notice period for Fireside Chalets, a minimum term or an early termination fee for the Smoky Mountains.
Fireside Chalets has not claimed this profile, so every fact on the Fireside Chalets page for Smoky Mountains comes from firesidechalets.com and the public sources listed under Sources for Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains, not from Fireside Chalets.
Fireside Chalets appears in the Smoky Mountains with 13 sources across 6 outside domains, each listed under Sources for Fireside Chalets with the date we read it.
These are the 5 questions to put to Fireside Chalets before you sign in the Smoky Mountains, with what Fireside Chalets has published on each Smoky Mountains point at firesidechalets.com and what the record for Fireside Chalets still lacks.
Every figure on the Fireside Chalets page for the Smoky Mountains carries the date we checked it for Fireside Chalets, and the latest check on file in the Smoky Mountains is October 2026. Each Fireside Chalets figure for Smoky Mountains comes from firesidechalets.com or an official source about Fireside Chalets, never from an STR Select estimate. Where Fireside Chalets publishes nothing, we leave the gap as a question you can put to Fireside Chalets. Homes on record for Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains are only those Fireside Chalets listed itself or self-reported through the Fireside Chalets claim flow, and the Fireside Chalets government facts for the Smoky Mountains come from the .gov page read for Fireside Chalets that day. The place of Fireside Chalets in the Smoky Mountains order follows the published methodology, and Fireside Chalets cannot buy a better one.
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