The country icon owns numerous businesses around her hometown resort, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

The operation provides all you need for your stay—bunk beds with fresh linens, potable water ... lodge predates—and was integral to—the founding of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

So woven into the fabric of this gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains, Parton ... a world-class water park and more in which she has a significant ownership stake, has enabled a glut of amusement ...