Cumberland Nap Dog Beds is located in the historic town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, which is located at the base of the Cumberland Mountains where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia meet. The town of Cumberland Gap has a population of 204 residents and is surrounded by the Cumberland Gap National Park.

The actual "Cumberland Gap" has long been used as a crossing point in the Appalachian Mountains. Animals used it as a path to the green pastures of Kentucky. Native Americans used it as a path that led from the Potomac River down the south side of the Appalachians through the Gap and north to Kentucky and Ohio. In 1750 Dr. Thomas Walker found the Gap and mapped its location, but the French and Indian Wars closed the new frontiers.

Daniel Boone and other long-hunters used the Gap to reach the Kentucky hunting grounds. In 1775 Boone and thirty men marked out the Wilderness Trail from what is now Kingsport Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky. Part of the Wilderness Road can be walked in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.

By the time of Kentucky's admission to the Union, over 100,000 people had passed through the Gap. By 1800 the Gap was being used for transportation and commerce, both east and west. Today the Cumberland Gap is the main local route North and South, via Cumberland Gap Parkway (Hwy. 25E). In 1995 a four lane tunnel through the mountain was built to open a new North-South, East-West route. After the tunnel was completed for travel, the Cumberland Gap was fully restored as it was in the days of the pioneers.