Fearrington House Restaurant & Country Hotel

Pastoral inn with trellised English gardens near Raleigh-Durham and Chapel Hill.... More

Greystone Inn

Family-friendly 1915 mansion beside a 640-acre lake in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 50 miles from Asheville.... More

Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa

The old guard competes with the new South's digerati for the subterranean spa pools (think: grotto chic) at the 1913... More

Inn on Biltmore Estate

Manor house on 8,000 acres adjacent to the Biltmore House, George Vanderbilt's 19th-century château.... More

Richmond Hill Inn

1889 Victorian mansion and 9 newer cottages, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.... More

Ballantyne Resort

Black Walnut Bed & Breakfast

Innkeepers Peter and Lori White, who have owned bakeries in Palm Beach and Martha's Vineyard, serve three-course breakfasts (raisin scones... More

Cape Hatteras Bed and Breakfast

Captain's Landing Hotel, Dockage & Suites

The Castle B&B

Falling Waters Resort

This hillside camp occupies another tranquil spot from which you can raft, bird-watch, hike, and explore Great Smoky Mountains National... More

Hampton Inn, Wilkes

Holiday Inn Express

The Inn on Pamlico Sound

Madelyn's in the Grove

Maverick Farms

MaryJane Butters’s planetview—worldview sounds too uninclusive—sinks hide their plumbing behind gay... More

Monte Vista

The family-owned hotel is alive and well at the quirky Monte Vista, which has worn white-wicker furniture on the porch... More

Nantahala Outdoor Center

Old Edwards Inn & Spa

When I finally park in front of the Old Edwards In... More

Pinehurst Resort

Large activities-filled resort on 2,000 acres (including a 200-acre lake with a sandy beach).... More