Must-see hotels in North Carolina Mountains

  • Bunn House

    Asheville

    The six rooms and suites in this meticulously restored 1905 home, in a residential neighborhood half a mile north of downtown, are awash with exposed…

  • Everett Hotel

    North Carolina Mountains

    This nine-room boutique hotel occupies a century-old building that once housed western North Carolina’s first bank. Beautiful pinewood hallways lead to…

  • Sweet Peas Hostel

    Asheville

    This spick-and-span, well-run, contemporary hostel occupies an unbeatable downtown location. The loft-like open-plan space, with its exposed brick walls,…

  • Mast Farm Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    Featuring worn hardwood floors, claw-foot tubs, and handmade toffees on your bedside table, this restored farmhouse in the beautiful hamlet of Valle…

  • Lovill House Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    Boone’s finest B&B is a splendid 19th-century farmhouse, a mile west of downtown and surrounded by woods. With its snug rooms, white clapboard walls, and…

  • Omni Grove Park Inn

    Asheville

    Commanding sweeping Blue Ridge views, this titanic Arts and Crafts–style stone lodge harks back to a bygone era of mountain glamor. Each of the 36ft-wide…

  • Fryemont Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    The views of the Smokies from this lofty bark-covered mountain lodge are unbeatable. Rooms lack TVs and air-con, but rates include breakfast and dinner in…

  • Aloft Asheville Downtown

    Asheville

    With a giant chalkboard in the lobby, groovy young staff and an outdoor clothing store on the 1st floor, this place looks like the inner circle of hipster…

  • Asheville Glamping

    Asheville

    Friendly Joana runs three separate sites: two within 5 miles of downtown, the other 10 miles north towards Hot Springs. Each is peppered with a…

  • Davidson River Campground

    North Carolina Mountains

    At the southern edge of the most spectacular stretch of Pisgah National Forest, 5 miles north of downtown Brevard, this riverside campground – tubing…

  • Mountain Magnolia Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    Built in 1868, and featured in This Old House, HGTV and Southern Living, this upscale inn offers guests the chance to enjoy the health-giving properties…

  • Downtown Inn & Suites

    Asheville

    The Downtown Inn will only suit those who value location and price above amenities and peace. It’s an old-style motel on a noisy street, with old…

  • Sunset Motel

    North Carolina Mountains

    They don’t make ’em like the Sunset Motel anymore, so if you’ve a penchant for vintage motor lodges, and you don’t mind every last fixture and fitting…

  • Campfire Lodgings

    Asheville

    All yurts should have flat-screen TVs, don't you think? Sleep like the world's most stylish Mongolian nomad in a furnished multiroom tent, half a mile up…

  • Red House Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    Built as a general store in 1851, the Red House went through various incarnations before becoming a B&B. Set in stately repose five minutes’ walk from…

  • Green Park Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    This grand white clapboard hotel, 1 mile south of downtown, opened its doors in 1891, and was renovated in 2010 to hold 88 plush rooms and a grill…

  • Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel

    North Carolina Mountains

    While it’s hardly rural or rustic, this enormous and ever-expanding casino resort holds more than 1000 high-quality hotel rooms, which are larger and more…

  • Horton Hotel

    North Carolina Mountains

    The 2018 opening of this ultra-central 15-room boutique hotel, in what was once a Studebaker showroom, adds a welcome dash of contemporary style to Boone…

  • Hidden Valley Motel

    North Carolina Mountains

    A quintessential mom-n-pop motel, set in delightful flower-filled gardens 8 miles southwest of town. The main house is bursting with vintage charm, while…

  • Tsali Campground

    North Carolina Mountains

    This forest-service campground holds around 40 tent sites, some beside a stream and some spreading across a meadow. It has showers and restrooms, but no…

  • Cliff Dwellers Inn

    North Carolina Mountains

    From its perch above town, this aptly named motel entices guests with good service, reasonable prices, stylish rooms and balconies with sweeping vistas.

  • Pilot Cove

    North Carolina Mountains

    On the border of Pisgah National Forest, this property has swanky, mod cabins for rent as well as about two miles of private biking trails.

  • Bon Paul & Sharky's

    Asheville

    Bon Paul & Sharky's has been welcoming hostelers into this colorful West Asheville 1920 home, a $10 Uber ride from South Slope, for well over a decade…

  • Hotel Arras

    Asheville

    Pack Sq’s BB&T tower, a 50-year-old modernist classic that’s the tallest skyscraper in Asheville, is being revamped and overhauled to house this luxury…