Welcome to the Great Smoky Mountains,BPO Elks Lodge #1769, and the town of Waynesville with a population of 10,000 located 20 minutes west of Asheville, NC and 20 minutes east of Cherokee, NC. Waynesville is the county seat of Haywood County and was voted as a "low cost Eden", best undiscovered town, best Main Street town, best small town, and the best mountain town in the third edition of America's 100 Best Places to Retire, published by Where to Retire magazine. We would like to invite you to visit our Lodge which meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7PM and we have RV parking for our Elk travelers.