If you're in the Asheville area, you must visit The Grove Park Inn
Resort & Spa. Flames pirouette like skinny dancers in the wide, towering
stacked rock fireplace in the Great Hall. They'll mesmerize you as you
relax cradled in one of the nearby rocking chairs. Or grab a glass of
the inn's own vinted Cabernet or Chardonnay, and slip outside to the
Sunset Terrace. Your eye will carry you over the resort's manicured golf
course (quite challenging, by the way) and surrounding neighborhood on
to the mountains. It's still one of the best, most relaxing views in all
of Asheville.
Escape to the 40,000-square-foot spa, wonderfully designed as an
underground grotto, and indulge yourself in a treatment. You'll find
water, water everywhere, so take a swim beneath the waterfall cascading
into a glorious heated pool. --Tanner C. Latham
