Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains

Memorial Day weekend marks the start of summer for many Big Canoe families and visitors. While diving around this weekend I noticed a lot of people from out of town - either visiting family or just enjoying a weekend in the North Georgia mountains. There’s something to be said for living where people want to vacation! I know that several of our current clients are interested in activities here in Big Canoe, so I figured what better opportunity than a holiday weekend to give a sampling of things to do in Big Canoe. Here are a few highlights of our Memorial Day weekend:

Big Canoe Soccer

Saturday morning started out with Big Canoe’s youth soccer games. You might think that there are not enough children here in Big Canoe to create an entire soccer league, but there are enough kids that we fill up an entire soccer field with children from age 3+ having a blast kicking and running. If you’re considering moving to Big Canoe, and you do have children, this is definitely an activity you will want to check out.

Wildcat Pool

After soccer, many Big Canoe families headed for one of the three pools. Our choice (really our kid’s choice) is the Wildcat Recreation Area pool. The Wildcat pool is really 2 pools - a pool for adults and a pool for the kids. The kid’s pool is best described as a water playground with all sorts of gizmos that spray and dump water on the kids.

While the pools in the Wildcat area are one of the main attractions, there are other activities as well. There is a huge soccer field (this is where the aforementioned games take place), baseball diamond, and basketball court. The Wildcat Pavilion is situated adjacent to the pool, and it is a fantastic spot to hold large outdoor parties. The pavilion has a huge outdoor fireplace to take the chill out of the air, and this is put to good use during Trunk or Treat. Trunk or Treat is a big outdoor Halloween party in Big Canoe, but I’ll have to wait for fall before I blog about it! One last popular activity I want to mention is bocce ball. The Wildcat Area has two bocce ball courts that are heavily used. Read more about bocce ball here at Wikipedia instead of having my attempt to explain the game.

BBQ and Cooking Out

The weekend weather has been absolutely perfect. Blue skies with puffy white clouds, and a nice breeze to keep the warm afternoons a pleasant temperature. There is no better weather for cooking out and making some tasty BBQ. Grills and BBQ pits are available for community use throughout Big Canoe. Grills can be found at the Scout Cabin off the Jeep Trail, Indian Rocks Park, Playfield Park, and the Wildcat Pavilion. There are probably others I am forgetting to mention. All of these locations are a great spot to have a picnic.

Speaking of BBQ, last night we cooked up a delicious BBQ Boston Butt on our Green Egg. When we first started this blog, we wrote a short article about cooking BBQ on our Green Egg. To this day, we still have people that end up visiting our site because of that article! While I’d love to believe it’s because of our incredible anecdotal abilities, I think it is more likely due to the interest in cooking BBQ pork here in the North Georgia mountains. Actually, the next blog we do is going to be a follow-up to that old blog. I hope you all have a fantastic Memorial Day weekend - enjoy being with your family, go for a swim, eat some BBQ pork butt - and if you do all that, I know you will!

~Karin Elliott is a resident of the North Georgia mountain Community of Big Canoe. See all Karin’s Big Canoe Real Estate Listings here. Read more about living in Big Canoe in her blog Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains.