760 Woody Lane: A Log Cabin, a Guest Studio, and Two Acres Inside Laurel Ridge Country Club

By Jon Tharp, Broker  ·  July 22, 2026

Some mountain properties give you a view from the deck. This one gives you a view from every room in the house.

760 Woody Lane sits at the top of its own ridge in Laurel Ridge Country Club, on two acres inside the Waynesville town limits. The main house is a single-level log home built in 1999, and next to it stands a separate two-level guest studio with its own entrance and parking. Together they make one of the more unusual offerings in Haywood County right now: a low-maintenance cabin for the way you actually live, plus a second building for everyone who comes to visit.

The main house

The cabin runs 1,816 square feet on one level, with two bedrooms and two baths in a split floor plan that puts the primary suite on one end and guests on the other. There is a great room anchored by a fireplace, an updated interior, and a kitchen that has been kept current.

What the square footage does not tell you is how much of this house is outdoors. County records show three separate covered porches and two wood decks wrapping the structure, better than 700 square feet of outdoor living in total. There is a gazebo in the yard, a fenced area, and a single-car garage. On a mountain at this elevation, that wraparound deck is the room you will use most from April through October.

The floor plan is also handicap friendly, which matters more than most buyers expect it to. Single-level living on a mountain lot is hard to find, and it is the feature that keeps a place like this workable for decades rather than years.

The guest house

Built in 2017, the second structure is a two-level studio with its own driveway, its own entrance, two bedrooms and two baths, and a large finished lower level that has been used as an artist's workshop. It has its own porch and decks, and the same long-range mountain views as the main house.

Call it what you need it to be. A studio. A workshop. A place for adult children and grandchildren to have their own front door. An office that is truly separate from the house. For buyers who have spent years trying to make one building serve too many purposes, having a second one on the same deed solves the problem outright.

What the deed actually says

Here is a detail most listings would skip, and it is worth knowing.

This is not one lot. It is two. The recorded legal description covers Lots 122 and 124, Phase 2 South, Laurel Ridge Country Club, combined into a single 2.07-acre parcel by a recombination plat filed in September 2016. Someone bought the cabin, then bought the lot next door, then merged them.

That is why the setting feels the way it does. The extra acre is not just yard, it is the buffer between you and whatever might otherwise have been built beside you. On a mountain where lots are typically an acre and homes are stacked along the contour, a two-acre parcel at the top of the ridge with the adjoining lot already absorbed is a different kind of privacy. You are not relying on covenants to protect the view. You own it.

The golf community

Laurel Ridge Country Club is the reason this side of the mountain looks the way it does.

The community was laid out on Eagles Nest Mountain in the mid-1980s, with its protective covenants recorded on July 1, 1986, the same year the golf course opened. The course was designed by Bob Cupp, working with Jim Holmes and Gus Grantham. Cupp is a serious name in course architecture, and what he built here is a mountain course in the fullest sense: 18 holes, par 72, 6,904 yards from the tips, bent grass fairways and greens, with elevation changes that produce blind tee shots and small, undulating greens. It carries a 146 slope, which puts it among the more demanding courses in the region. Golfers who have played it tend to talk about it afterward.

The club itself is private and locally owned. The centerpiece is a 19,000 square foot post-and-beam Grand Lodge with a restaurant and bar looking out over the ninth and eighteenth holes, alongside a 6,000 square foot open-air pavilion built around a stone fireplace. There are four Har-Tru clay tennis courts, a heated saltwater pool, a fitness center, a driving range, a putting green, a chipping area, and a golf academy. The clubhouse on Cupp Lane is about a mile from Woody Lane.

The community spans elevations from roughly 2,700 to 5,000 feet, and the zoning is deliberately low density, with most lots an acre or larger. That is what keeps the mountain feeling like a mountain instead of a subdivision. Summers here average around 70 degrees and winters around 40, so the golf season runs long and the porch season runs longer.

One note worth making plainly: club membership and property ownership are separate matters here. If golf is part of why you are looking, ask us and we will get you the current membership details straight from the club rather than guess at them.

The mountain has a history

Eagles Nest Mountain was drawing people up out of the heat long before anyone thought about a golf course.

In 1900, a Waynesville man named S. C. Satterthwaite built the Eagle's Nest Hotel at 5,050 feet on what is now North Eaglenest Mountain. It was one of only two hay-fever resorts in all of western North Carolina, the other being Cloudland on Roan Mountain. It slept a hundred guests, pitched tents when it overflowed, and looked straight across at the Plott Balsams. Guests came up for the air and stayed for the summer.

It burned to the ground on April 22, 1918, and was never rebuilt.

More than a century later, people are still coming to this mountain for the same reasons: the elevation, the air, and the view across the Plott Balsams. The hotel is gone. The reason it was built is not.

Waynesville, and what surrounds it

Downtown Waynesville is a few minutes down the mountain: a real main street with independent bookshops, galleries, restaurants and a farmers market, not a manufactured version of one. Asheville is about 25 minutes east. The Blue Ridge Parkway is close enough for an evening drive, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the country, is right next door.

For buyers coming from Florida, the Carolinas Lowcountry, or the Northeast, this is the combination that tends to close the deal: real mountains, real seasons, a real town, and a private golf community with the amenities you expect, all inside the limits of a place small enough that people know your name at the counter.

Come see it

760 Woody Lane is offered at $1,150,000. Two acres, a 1999 log home on one level, a 2017 guest studio, and long-range views from every window, inside Laurel Ridge Country Club.

If you would like to walk it, or you want the full property details, the covenants, or current club membership information, reach out and we will get it in your hands.

Jon Tharp Homes Office (828) 347-9055 Work cell (828) 347-9474

*Property details are drawn from Haywood County public records and the recorded deed. Square footage, acreage and improvement data reflect the county property record card. Buyers should verify all information independently.*

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Is 760 Woody Lane inside Laurel Ridge Country Club?

Yes. The recorded legal description covers Lots 122 and 124, Phase 2 South, Laurel Ridge Country Club, and the property is subject to the community's protective covenants recorded in 1986.

Does buying a home in Laurel Ridge include golf club membership?

Property ownership and club membership are separate matters at Laurel Ridge. The club is private and locally owned. Contact us and we will get you the current membership details directly from the club.

How big is the lot at 760 Woody Lane?

The parcel is 2.07 acres. It was created in September 2016 when two adjoining building lots were combined into a single tract by a recombination plat.

Who designed the golf course at Laurel Ridge Country Club?

The 18-hole course was designed by Bob Cupp with Jim Holmes and Gus Grantham, built in 1985 and 1986 and opened in 1986. It plays to a par of 72 at 6,904 yards from the championship tees with a 146 slope.