High Hampton Inn & Country Club: High in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, on a knoll overlooking a cool mountain lake, the High Hampton Inn & Country Club is a reminder the great Adirondack camps of the 1920s and 30s. With its classic style and an expansive estate, the great lodge offers a unique blend of outdoor recreation and up-scale hospitality. At a 3,600-foot elevation, close to Cashiers, North Carolina, High Hampton is one of last, old-world mountain resorts.

The near-perfect climate, the silence and mystique of the great outdoors, and an overall sense of serenity makes it, perhaps, the ultimate escape from the hustle and bustle of big city life.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, High Hampton is a classically rustic stone-and-wood mountain inn set amid the spectacular scenery of Western North Carolina deep int eh heart the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Amenities at this 1,400-acre, 117-room resort include a myriad of seasonal events (children’s programs, golf and tennis clinics, and wildflower workshops), an 18-hole George W. Cobb-designed golf course (as pretty a golf course as I’ve ever seen), a huge dining room with three gourmet buffets daily, six tennis courts, and the inevitable spa. There’s also a 35-acre lake for swimming, boating, fishing, and other water-related activities and numerous hiking trail of varying degrees of difficulty. 

The lodge rooms, cottages and cabins, are simple and rustic; all have private baths. Solitude is the watchword at High Hampton. You’ll find no Internet access, TVs or telephones in the rooms: the resort really does offer a complete getaway. If you need to receive emails, there is wireless service in the lobby at the lodge. Cell phone service is skimpy at best, and non existent at worst. Most of the activities at High Hampton are nature-driven.

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