Visit Nemacolin Resort near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
A tour of Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and sSpa, including views of inside the Chateau, the zoo, one of the finishing holes of one of the two on-property Championship golf courses and more! A great place for the family, not far from Pittsburgh, PA.
According to Wikipedia, Nemacolin Resort is named after Chief Nemacolin, a native Delaware Indian who in 1740 trail blazed a route through the rugged Laurel Highlands mountains between what is now Cumberland, Maryland and Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Willard Rockwell established a private game reserve on what is now Nemacolin Woodlands and named this property Nemacolin Trails Hunting Reserve in 1968. The Rockwells invited friends and business associates to hunt and fish on the hundreds of acres populated by silver fox, bear, and Russian white-tailed deer. A hunting lodge was constructed along with a golf course and airstrip. Lakes Louise (named after the wife of Mr. Rockwell's youngest son) and Carol (named after the wife of Mr. Rockwell's second son) were also added and Beaver Creek was developed and stocked into a trout fishing stream.
In 1979, the property was sold to Cordelia Scaife May, but was returned three years later to the Rockwell family when Kent Rockwell repurchased the property and opened it to the public. Joseph Hardy III, founder of the 84 Lumber Company, bought Nemacolin at an auction he attended in 1987 in the hopes of purchasing a few acres of woodlands near a lake or stream for his daughter, Maggie, who loved fishing.
As Hardy recounts, I left the auction without that piece of property for fishing because I bought the main parcel and was out of money. Hardy and his daughter, Maggie, promptly set about transforming the property into its present state – a 2,000 acre (8 km²) world-class resort, rated Four Diamonds by the American Automobile Association (AAA). In 2002, Hardy transferred full ownership of the resort to his daughter, Maggie Hardy Magerko, who still serves as President and Owner.[1]
In 2007, Nemacolin's boutique hotel, Falling Rock, received AAA Five Diamond status. Falling Rock is the only hotel in Western Pennsylvania to receive AAA's highest honor, and has retained five diamond status though 2015. Lautrec, a fine dining experience with European-American flair located inside Nemacolin's Chateau LaFayette hotel, became the first new restaurant in Pennsylvania in 13 years to receive AAA Five Diamond status for 2008. In 2009, Lautrec received a Five Star rating from the Forbes Mobile Travel Guide and has held that distinction through 2015, making Lautrec one of only 27 restaurants in the world to have both Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond ratings.
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Jeep Off Roading at Nemacolin Resort Trails
Nemacolin Resort and Spa has a Jeep Driving Academy and I drove up to hand with the instructors with my Stock Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. This is me trying to make it up a steep gravel incline. I didn't quite make it the first time as I wasn't used to someone standing on the trails and I was afraid I would hit my guide.