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We were just there Thanksgiving weekend last year, and rented the WORST cabin I've ever stayed in. Yeah, I'm going here: Alpine Mountain Cabins on 75A. The furniture smelled, the bed was a single, not a queen, the hot tub wasn't, the pillows were so flat I had to use a bundle of clothes for my head, and the heater wouldn't adjust - we had to open the windows so it wasn't 90 degrees inside. Our prior cabin was at Cabin On The Creek near Yonah. The road to the cabin was little more than a one lane fire trail, but it was nice inside. Plus, they had catch and release trout fishing right off the back deck. Sweet. My wife was born in Atlanta. Remember that scene in Smokey and The Bandit, when the Bandit went to see Cletus at home to enlist him in the beer run? That house used to be owned by a daycare worker, and that's where my wife spent her days as a tot when her mother went to work at Grady Hospital.

Yep, Helen was nice-like 50 years ago when it first got transformed into an Alpine village. Not much has changed since then and we now avoid it like the plague. I refuse to even drive thru the town unless absolutely necessary.
Speaking of Smokey And The Bandit-I once had the "pleasure" of riding that deathtrap of a rollercoaster at the old fairgrounds a few months before it was torn down for the end of the movie. Scariest ride I've ever been on! The damn thing swayed like 5 feet as it went around the curves and I swear my growth was forever stunted afterwards! Nothing since has terrified me even close to that one ride!