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 Pictorial Travel Review  

Our pictorial review of the famous Grove Park Inn started in October of 2011. As we toured this magnificent resort we posted pictures to our Facebook page. Our readers rang out in the dozens, 'been there done that, we're headed back soon". We rapidly found out why:) The old world charm of this resort is captivating and the views are breathtaking. The staff is full of southern charm and hospitality.

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The Grove Park Inn is the Official home of the National Gingerbread Competition.

The Christmas Store at the Grove Park Inn is open all year long.

Part of our SE Tour encompassed Chattanooga and the Choo Choo.

Troy from Pep Boys made sure our new Hankook tires were up to the job for our road trip.

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During the summers of 1935 and ’36, author F. Scott Fitzgerald resided in our Room 441. He’s just one of the American luminaries to have stayed here, a list that includes Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, George Gershwin, Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt and Henry Ford. Not to mention presidents — William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Spa is more than 43,000 square feet in size, 20,000 of which are amenities for you to enjoy before and after your treatment. The Spa is ranked #13 Worldwide by Travel & Leisure "World's Best Hotel Spas" 2008. 

Julie Powell from the Grove Park Inn illustrates just how large one of their two main fireplaces in the lobby really are. Some say you could fit a small car in the fireplace:) Thank you Julie for the tour!

A sitting area in the original Grove Park Inn on one of the guest floors.

A super comfy room with king size bed, flat screen TV, fridge and coffee maker. The real deal are the views and ambience. Next time we hope to stay in the original resort.

The hotel was the vision of E.W. Grove, a St. Louis entrepreneur who made his millions in the 1890s peddling an elixir called Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. For his Inn, he envisioned a hotel that would be like “a big home where every modern convenience could be found, but with all the old-fashioned qualities of genuineness with no sham.”

The golf course first opened for play in 1899 and was redesigned in 1924 by the great Donald Ross. The passing decades gradually altered its play, and in 2001, the resort undertook an ambitious $2.5 million program to restore the course to the past glory and spirit of its original Donald Ross design. This is a shot-maker’s course, emphasizing accuracy over power in its 6,720 yard, par 70 layout.

A fall sunset from the Sammons Wing evolves from blue sky to oranges and reds silhouetted by the mountains.

The Blue Ridge Pkwy from our SE Tour. The leaves had just begun to change last week. We did Atlanta, Asheville, BR Pkwy, Nashville, Chattanooga then back home Sarasota which had cooled down since left a week ago.

An An OurTown Sarasota reader sent us this photo of the Blue Ridge Mountains a week after we were there, illustrating how gorgeous the peak of the season really is. Thank you.

  Elaine's night club in the Inn has entertainment and dueling pianos. It is named after Mr. Groves wife. The photo was taken from a glass elevator.