Burt Reynolds’ Former Cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains Sells for a Whopping $3 Million
A beautiful mountainside cabin in Highlands, North Carolina that once belonged to Burt Reynolds and then-wife Loni Anderson was just sold for nearly $3 million.
Built in 1972, the secluded property was designed by the late local architect Jim Fox, a Frank Lloyd Wright protégé, to blend in with its natural surroundings, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Reynolds, who died in 2018, fell in love with the property and area while filming the 1972 thriller Deliverance, in the nearby town of Sylva. (The three-story, four-bedroom, six-bathroom cabin is an hour’s drive away.)
Sylva served as the backdrop of the pivotal opening scene, in which the four main characters encounter a rundown town on their way to a canoe trip, as well as the dueling banjos scene between businessman Drew (Robby Cox) and a local kid (Billy Redden).
In a letter dated December 23, 1983, Reynolds said, “I own about fourteen houses. Whenever I am asked which one is my favorite, without a moment’s hesitation, I always say my house in the mountains.”
Who can blame him? This place is gorgeous! In addition to its unique shape and style, it has an outdoor pool with a waterfall feature, a stone bath, and a covered wraparound porch that looks like it belongs in kids cartoon about a magical, made-up treehouse.
Check out the photos below from the original listing.
1972
January 2022
1972 was a year packed with everything from “American Pie” to Ziggy Stardust What’s not to love?
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