Primland Resort, Auberge Resorts Collection

Primland is the most remote and comprehensive luxury resort in the American Southeast, a 12,000-acre private mountain estate in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains where the Auberge Resorts Collection has assembled a property that is genuinely difficult to categorize because it does so many things exceptionally well. The Donald Steel-designed Highland Course is ranked among the top courses in Virginia. The observatory with its CGE Pro telescope offers stargazing experiences unavailable elsewhere in the luxury resort market. The activities portfolio spans over two dozen pursuits from heli-skiing and sporting clays to fly fishing and horseback riding through old-growth forest. Accommodations range from lodge rooms with panoramic mountain views to treehouses perched above the Dan River Gorge to Mountain Homes accommodating up to 22 guests. For groups, the resort offers roughly 6,100 square feet of state-of-the-art conference facilities, and the property's entire 12,000-acre footprint effectively becomes the event venue, with the ability to host private horseback tours, ATV excursions, guided hunts, and mountaintop dinners as group programming. Three commercial airports sit within two hours of the property. For planners seeking a Southern counterpart to the great Western dude ranch resorts, Primland is the definitive answer.

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