Noah Bud Ogle Place

Noah Bud Ogle Place is a preserved 19th-century mountain farmstead and self-guided walking loop on Cherokee Orchard Road, just before the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. The cabin, four-pen barn, and tub mill sit in hardwood forest. If you’re already taking the drive, this is a good short stop for a closer look at how a mountain farm worked. Start with the cabin, then keep walking: the loop’s best details are farther along.

Follow the loop through former fields and small brooks toward LeConte Creek and its tub mill, then past the barn on the return. It’s short, but rocky footing and shallow creek crossings make it uneven, especially near the mill and barn. This is less suited to a smooth, level stroll; take your time over the rough sections.

The cabin uses a rare saddlebag design: two log sections share one central chimney, with long porches along the front. The barn is a four-pen design and the park’s last remaining example. Together, the buildings make this a more complete farmstead stop than a quick look at one cabin.

Noah “Bud” and Lucinda Ogle built the surviving farm buildings in the late 19th century. Their farm included cornfields and an apple orchard, and Lucinda was a local midwife. The loop makes the working landscape easier to picture than the buildings alone.

The tub mill stands on LeConte Creek, where an 80-foot log flume carried water to grind corn. It was built around 1885. Look for it after the cabin: the small mill shows how the farm used the creek, not just lived beside it.