Should I get a natural gas or propane fire pit?

Rural Valleys Run on Tanks and Wood

Mars Hill's outlying homes — out toward Spring Creek, Gabriels Creek, Forks of Ivy — depend on propane or wood, because the natural-gas main doesn't reach that far. So most fire pits here are propane appliances: LP burns hotter per unit and at a different pressure than natural gas, and the burner needs propane-specific orifices and a regulator to run clean instead of sooting.

A home already heating with propane usually has a tank that can feed the pit, which spares you a second one in the yard. Where wood is the habit, a gas pit is the low-effort complement — no splitting, no hauling, no ash — for the nights you want fire without the chore of building one.

Colder Spot, Easy-Use Flame

Mars Hill is one of the colder spots we serve, and the university crowd leans toward fireplaces and features that are simple to use — the same reasoning that makes a gas pit sensible outdoors. It lights at the key, throws steady heat with no smoke, and shuts off clean, which is exactly what you want on a cool campus-town evening.

Madison County Permit

Running the propane line and setting the regulator is licensed work — the tank itself we coordinate with your supplier, but the connection is our lane and no one else's. We pull the Madison County permit, pressure-test, and meet the inspector. We're 30 minutes north of the showroom. Call (828) 545-0525.

Permitted work protects your homeowner's insurance and a future sale — unpermitted gas can void either, which no one wants to discover the hard way. A free in-home assessment tells us exactly what your property needs.