The Best Hotels Near Foothills Brewpub, by the Record
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The 1929 Art Deco skyscraper that allegedly inspired the Empire State Building now houses this Kimpton boutique hotel in downtown Winston-Salem. The old R.J. Reynolds Tobacco headquarters kept its bones, and Kimpton dressed them in the brand's signature breezy, mid-century-leaning style. The result lands somewhere between a history lesson and a fever dream of how glamorous corporate America once imagined itself.
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The tree houses sleep adults, which tells you something about the ambition here. This sprawling mountain resort sits on its own 12,000-acre estate in the Blue Ridge, with rooms in the main lodge, chalet-style suites, and those treetop cabins perched above the Dan River Gorge. It's the kind of place where "stepping outside" means something wilder than a hotel courtyard, and guests tend to stay lost in the woods for days.