Rattlesnake Lodge Ruins

Rattlesnake Lodge Ruins Rattle Snake Lodge was built in 1902-3 as a summer home for the Chase P.Ambler family, located above Asheville NC.

The lodge was built in 1903 and 1904 to be a summer home for Dr. Chase P. Ambler and his family, and it served as this until it was sold in November of 1920. The children and their mother went to the lodge when school was closed for the summer, and returned to Asheville just before school opened in the fall. Dr. Ambler, who had a medical practice in Asheville, would always come up on the weekends

and usually on Wednesdays. He also spent many of his vacations there, and frequented the lodge during winter and spring. He especially spent a lot of time there during the first several years, when the out-buildings and the trails were being built.

04/22/2019

Chase Ambler championed the national park movement and built Rattlesnake Lodge north of Asheville.

08/21/2018

In 1900, there were 1,371 reported cases of tuberculosis under treatment in the Asheville climate.

10/31/2017
This map of the Rattlesnake Lodge grounds is borrowed from the web page www.rattlesnakelodge.com created by A. Chase Amb...
07/17/2016

This map of the Rattlesnake Lodge grounds is borrowed from the web page www.rattlesnakelodge.com created by A. Chase Ambler Jr. (1931-2008) 22 years ago, Chase being the grandson of Chase P. Ambler who built the lodge for his family. This website has lots of super info on the Lodge.

Tiny Trekers! Energetic Explorers! Happy Hikers! Made it up to the Rattlesnake Lodge Ruins! If they can do it, so can yo...
07/16/2016

Tiny Trekers! Energetic Explorers! Happy Hikers! Made it up to the Rattlesnake Lodge Ruins! If they can do it, so can you! Photo courtesy Dawn Chitwood Rivers -March 2016.

Let's keep our public lands belonging to the public!
06/15/2016

Let's keep our public lands belonging to the public!

Right now, the House is considering two bills that would turn over huge tracts of our National Forests to states and private interests in an effort to circumvent the laws that ensure that recreation and conservation values are protected.

The hike up to Rattlesnake Lodge can be a great outing for the whole family! Here is a happy group photo from Mother's D...
06/14/2016

The hike up to Rattlesnake Lodge can be a great outing for the whole family! Here is a happy group photo from Mother's Day 2016. Courtesy of Beth Merlin Love.

Here is a page from the January-October 1960 North Carolina Historical Review in an article titled "The Appalachian Nati...
02/19/2016

Here is a page from the January-October 1960 North Carolina Historical Review in an article titled "The Appalachian National Park Movement 1885-1901" by C. D. Smith. interesting insight into C. P Ambler's love of the NC mountains.

One of the favorite photo op spots at the Rattlesnake Lodge site. That was one HUGE tree!! Photo courtesy Adi Purusa Das...
11/21/2015

One of the favorite photo op spots at the Rattlesnake Lodge site. That was one HUGE tree!! Photo courtesy Adi Purusa Das, Nov 2015.

Fine photo of the loose-laid stone retaining wall at Rattlesnake Lodge, built in 1903. Winter trees, misty fog. Photo co...
11/21/2015

Fine photo of the loose-laid stone retaining wall at Rattlesnake Lodge, built in 1903. Winter trees, misty fog. Photo courtesy of Victor Mariano, Nov 2015

08/20/2015

Hiking to Rattlesnake Lodge? How about taking a couple of photos of what you see there and posting them on this fb page? need some current pics! tnx.

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