Destination

Appalachians

Mountain retreats in the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, where old forests and long ridgelines set the pace.

4 hotels

Walland, Tennessee · Appalachians

Blackberry Mountain

A 5,200-acre Smoky Mountains retreat of stone cottages and treehouses, built around trails, recovery and a summit restaurant in a restored fire tower.

Gatlinburg · Appalachians

Buckhorn Inn

Buckhorn Inn is East Tennessee's oldest inn, a peaceful country retreat on 25 acres of woodland and meadow on the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most visited national park in the United States. Founded in 1938, it offers a quiet, gracious alternative to the bustle of nearby Gatlinburg, with cottages and guest houses among the trees, sweeping mountain views and dinners that draw guests back year after year.

New Paltz · Appalachians

Mohonk Mountain House

Mohonk Mountain House is one of the most extraordinary resorts in America, a sprawling Victorian castle on the shore of a small, deep mountain lake on the Shawangunk Ridge, about two hours north of New York City. Built by Quaker twin brothers Albert and Alfred Smiley from 1869 onwards, it has been run by the same family ever since, and it is surrounded by thousands of acres of protected forest, cliffs and trails.

Meadows of Dan, Virginia · Appalachians

Primland

A 12,000-acre Blue Ridge estate with a domed observatory, cedar tree houses above the Dan River Gorge and a Donald Steel golf course.