Nestled in the scenic Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, the historic Cheat Mountain Club offers an extraordinary escape for those wishing to unplug and experience one of the “Last Great Places.”

The lodge, built of massive hand-hewn spruce logs, has rooms with pine walls and maple furnishings. Stone fireplaces warm the Great Room and dining room. Meals are served on white linen tablecloths or, when the weather is fine, on picnic tables by the river.

The Club sits on 20 acres of meadows and woodland with a mile and a half of private river-front on the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River. Bordered by The Nature Conservancy’s Upper Shavers Fork Preserve and the Monongahela National Forest, we are far from the madding crowd.

The lodge sits at 3,500 ft above sea level so summers are cool and winters mean snow. Our rare ecosystem features towering red spruce, hemlocks, black bear, beaver, bald eagles — and plenty of hungry trout.

Unlike a typical hotel, the entire lodge — the Great Room, dining room and all ten bedrooms — are yours. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Built in 1886 for prominent Pittsburgh industrialists, the Club was the center of a vast hunting and fishing preserve. One hundred years later, CMC opened its doors to the general public as a wilderness inn.

Today, when you sit on the back porch overlooking the Shavers Fork the scene is pretty much the same as it was when Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone rolled up in a caravan of model T’s at the dawn of the 20th century.