Resort/Hotel

The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa 
Asheville, North Carolina
 GroveParkInn.com
[828] 252-2711, or 1-800-438-5800 
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

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(left) The Grove Park Inn: The soothing spa is a standout at this Asheville destination.

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