When you live your life on the road, peace and quiet start to feel like luxury items. So it’s no surprise that Tyler Hubbard and his wife, Hayley, celebrated their one-year anniversary tucked away in one of the coziest corners of Tennessee — Blackberry Farm, the kind of place that looks like it was built to make your blood pressure drop just by looking at it.
Tucked into the Smoky Mountains, this resort isn’t just a getaway — it’s more like pressing the world’s biggest “reset” button. Hayley described it as “heaven on earth,” and from the sound of it, she’s not exaggerating. They were greeted with a golf cart (every dream vacation should start that way), a welcome package for their pup Harley, cocktails waiting in the room, and staff who live by a motto I think we could all get behind: “Anything you want — the answer is yes.”
That right there is how you win over a country couple who spend half their lives chasing planes and hotel check-ins. Curtis says that if somebody ever told me “the answer is yes,” I’d test the limits immediately — like, “Can y’all make me pancakes shaped like Tennessee?”
Hayley said they did a little bit of everything — from wake surfing and yoga to fly fishing and cooking lessons. And let me just say, I would pay money to see Tyler Hubbard in a cooking class, holding a whisk like it’s a microphone. But what makes Blackberry Farm sound really special isn’t the activities — it’s the way she describes it. The way the air feels fresh enough to clear your head. The way the food tastes like it came straight out of the ground because, well, it literally did.
Everything there is grown, cooked, and served right on the property — cheeses, meats, produce, all of it. Hayley joked that they didn’t always know what they were ordering, but every bite was the best thing they’d ever eaten. That’s how you know a place is good — when you stop asking what it is and just say, “I’ll have another.”
And the part that completely won me over? The truffle dogs. I’m serious — trained pups that roam the property sniffing out truffles like it’s their day job. Hayley said guests can actually join in for a truffle-hunting demo in the winter months, which honestly sounds like my kind of adventure. I’d probably end up following the dogs around just to pet them, but still — 10/10 experience.
What I love most about how Hayley writes is that she makes it sound real — not over-the-top, not influencer-fake, just honest. She admits it wasn’t a cheap trip, but that it was “worth every penny ten times over.” You can feel how grateful she was to just stop, breathe, and be married — away from the shows, the noise, the constant hurry.
It’s funny how a place can be both fancy and grounding at the same time. Maybe that’s what makes it special. Or maybe it’s just the kind of love that makes even the fanciest place feel like home.
Either way, Tyler and Hayley found their little mountain heaven — and now it’s sitting at the top of my dream list too. Just need Curtis to find us a few truffle dogs and a “yes to everything” policy, and I’ll call it even.