The Grove Park Inn is a nearly one hundred year old historic resort hotel on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain within the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina. The Inn is a AAA Four-Diamond Hotel and has been since 2001. It serves as one of the most romantic places to stay on the eastern U.S. seaboard and has been visited by many United States' Presidents and other people of notoriety. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is an important example of the Arts and Crafts style. It also features a $44 million, 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2), modern sub-terranean spa, which placed #13 worldwide in Travel + Leisure's World's Best Hotel Spas in 2008. It is owned by KSL Resorts.
Read more about Grove Park Inn: The Inn, History, Presidential Visits, Famous Guests, The Pink Lady Ghost, Extras At The Inn, Accolades, Literary References
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