The field station is located 0.6 miles north of the Greenbrier entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and 6 mi east of Gatlinburg city center. It consists of 2 houses with 7 beds, a laboratory, and a campground with 28 beds in 4 lean-to cabins, restroom, and kitchen. Botany researchers were hosted in the guest house on the property beginning in 1974. The site was opened as a field station by the University of Tennessee in 2004 and the campground facility was completed in 2013. The field station is managed by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The 18 acres of forested land are currently used for small-extent research projects, but the location of the field station, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, makes it very valuable to many researchers who carry out projects in the park.
