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Old Edwards Inn and Spa occupies the historic core of Highlands, North Carolina — a mountain town at 4,118 feet elevation in the Nantahala National Forest that has been a summer retreat for generations of Lowcountry and Georgia families escaping coastal heat. The inn is Forbes Five Star, a distinction shared with almost no other Southern Appalachian property, and its 30,000-square-foot spa is the most comprehensive in the region: wood-fired sauna, multiple steam rooms, heated mineral pools, and thermal waterfall circuit. The Blue Ridge scenery at this elevation — the waterfalls of the Cullasaja Gorge, the fields of flame azaleas in season, the crystalline highland streams — is what North Carolina's mountains promise at their finest. The Main Street setting integrates the inn with Highlands' exceptional gallery culture and farm-to-table restaurant scene.
