High on a knoll overlooking a mountain lake and a sheer rock mountain face, High Hampton Inn & Country Club is reminiscent of the great Adirondack camps of the 1920s and 30s. With its classic style and expansive estate, the resort offers a unique blend of outdoor recreation and up-scale hospitality, it's must be 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 make it the ultimate escape from the hustle and bustle of big city life.
Ideal for families, and especially so for lady Golfers, High Hampton Inn & Country Club is a rustic mountain inn set amid the spectacular scenery of the mountains of Western North Carolina. 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 course as I’ve ever seen), a grand dining hall with three gourmet buffets daily, six tennis courts, and an upscale spa. There’s a 35-acre lake for swimming, boating, fishing and other water-related activities, and there are several hiking trails 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 offers the complete getaway. If you need to receive emails, there's 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.
