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Bear Necessity Cabin Resort

Charming Mountain Retreat in Ellijay, Georgia

10/16/2026

Tomorrow night, this fire table could be yours. 🔥

The cabin is open Saturday Oct 17 through Wednesday the 21st. Take the weekend, or stretch it into a midweek escape while the woods are at their most colorful.

About two hours from most of Atlanta. Throw a bag in the car after work and you're on the screened porch by dark. 🍂

Sleeps 6 · dog-friendly · minutes from downtown Ellijay

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=oct_gap_2026
— Ruth & David

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

10/14/2026

Apple Festival's second weekend just opened up at the cabin. 🍎

October 17–21 is free: the Saturday–Sunday festival weekend plus the quiet midweek behind it. C***r and fried pies in town by day, fire pit under the trees by night, hot tub when your feet are done.

Late October is the stretch everybody asks us about in July. This is your shot at it. 👇

Sleeps 6 · 🐾 fenced dog run · ♨️ private hot tub · ⭐️ 4.97

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=oct_gap_2026
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/27/2026

Three nights left in September — and then that's the month. ☕️

September 28, 29 and 30. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The very last open nights we have before October.

Slow mornings at the coffee bar, apple season five minutes down the road, the woods going gold outside the windows, and the whole place to yourselves in the quietest week of the season.

After this, our calendar belongs to leaf season.

If you've got any flexibility at all this week — take it. 👇

Sleeps 6 · 🐾 fenced dog run · ♨️ private hot tub · ⭐️ 4.97 · 115 reviews

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_fill_2026
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/25/2026

Tonight and tomorrow are open. So is the whole week behind them. ♨️

September 25–27 is free, and so is the 28th through October 1st — the last real stretch of open nights we have before leaf season takes over.

The cabin is sitting here clean and ready. Pour something, get in, look up at the trees. That's the entire itinerary.

About two hours from most of Atlanta. Sleeps 6. The dog comes too. 🐾

Last-minute is honestly our favorite kind of booking — if you can go, go. 👇

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_fill_2026
— Ruth & David

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/24/2026

Tag the person you'd need a rematch with. 🕹️

Every group has one. They lose at foosball, say "best two out of three," and suddenly it's 1am and the Ms. Pac-Man high score has changed hands four times.

Downstairs at the cabin: foosball, two arcade cabinets, air hockey, and the 100" theater right next door for when everyone finally calls a truce. 🎬

Rainy fall afternoon? This is where it goes. 🍂

So who owes you a rematch? 👇

Sleeps 6 · tucked in the trees minutes from downtown Ellijay.

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_engagement
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/23/2026

Unpopular opinion: midweek at the cabin beats the weekend. 🍂

September 28, 29 and 30 are open — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday — and midweek up here is a completely different trip. The trails are empty. Downtown Ellijay is calm. There's no line at the orchards.

Screened porch, gas fire table, coffee in hand, and nowhere to be until Thursday.

Those are the last three nights we have in September, and they're the cheapest ones on the calendar that week.

If you can move a couple of days around, this is the sweet spot of the whole fall. 👇

Sleeps 6 · 🐾 fenced dog run · ⭐️ 4.97 · minutes from downtown Ellijay

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_fill_2026
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/22/2026

A cancellation just opened up the back half of October. 🍂

We almost never have these dates. Here's what's free right now — two-night minimum on all of it:

🍎 Oct 17–22 — Georgia Apple Festival's second weekend is Oct 17–18, plus the midweek behind it
🍁 Oct 23–25 — peak-color weekend
🌙 Oct 25–30 — quiet midweek, from $200/night
🎃 Oct 30–Nov 1 — Halloween weekend, just reopened

Late October is the stretch people ask us about in July. Fire pit after dark, hot tub steaming under the trees, and the arcade and 100" theater downstairs for the afternoon it rains. The pup comes too — there's a fenced run. 🐾

About two hours from most of Atlanta, a little under two from Chattanooga. Close enough to leave after work on a Friday.

These are the last October nights we've got. 👇

Sleeps 6 · ⭐️ 4.97 · 115 reviews

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=october_fill
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/21/2026

The last week of September is wide open — and it's a good one. 🍁

September 25 through October 1 is completely free. The weekend, the midweek, or the whole stretch if you want it.

Here's why that week is worth grabbing: the orchards are deep into apple season, the color is just starting to turn in the woods around the cabin, and it's the last quiet week before October fills these mountains with people.

Vaulted great room, stone fireplace, hot tub out back, arcade and 100" theater downstairs. Sleeps 6, dog included.

Come for the weekend — or take Monday and Tuesday off and really do it right. 👇

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_fill_2026
— Ruth & David

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/20/2026

"The perfect home base to enjoy hiking to north GA's beautiful waterfalls."
— Nathan, verified guest

Nathan said the thing we've never quite figured out how to say ourselves. 🌲

From the air you can barely pick the cabin out — it's just a bit of roofline in the middle of the woods. But you're ten minutes from downtown Ellijay and a short drive from Amicalola, the Cartecay, and half a dozen waterfall trails.

Hike all day. Come back to a hot tub, a fire pit, and nobody around for it. That's the whole idea. 🍂

⭐️ 4.97 · 115 reviews · sleeps 6 · 🐾 fenced dog run

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_engagement
— Ruth & David

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

09/17/2026

Last call — the cabin's empty this weekend and we'd rather it wasn't. 🔥

September 18, 19, 20. Tomorrow through Sunday. Everything's clean, the fire pit's stocked, and the hot tub is already hot.

If you can throw a bag in the car tomorrow after work, you can be sitting right here by dark. Ellijay is about two hours from most of Atlanta.

Sleeps 6 · 🐾 dog-friendly · ten minutes from downtown Ellijay · ⭐️ 4.97

Somebody's weekend is about to get a lot better. Might as well be yours. 👇

🐻 Book direct & save 13%: https://www.thebearnecessity.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fall_fill_2026
— David & Ruth

📍 Ellijay, GA

Gilmer County, GA · Short-Term Rental Host License No. 001322

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Ellijay, GA
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