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Is it just me, or are you thinking about escaping into nature also?
I am writing from New York City, which is busy and bustling.
(Pandemic? What pandemic?) Which may be why I'm dreaming about escaping into the mountains.

I spent a week in the Italian Dolomites last month, and it's really true that there's nothing as restorative and relaxing as the crisp mountain air — anywhere in the world. Herewith, a few spots that offer elevated experiences on this side of the Atlantic. This is my kind of high.

- Pavia, Fathom founder


HOTEL SPOTLIGHT


Lights, Camera, Action at Sundance Mountain Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort
Sundance, Utah
Western wilderness, $$ ($300)

In 1969, Robert Redford bought a swath of land at the base of 12,000-foot Mt. Timpanogos, an hour from Salt Lake City in Utah. Interested in both land conservation and artistic experimentation, he established an institute to reinforce independent storytelling and support its burgeoning artists and filmmakers.

Over the next several decades, an ecosystem balancing art and community, nature and adventure, and rusticity and sophistication developed in the area known as Sundance. Today, guests of the Sundance Mountain Resort can take advantage of the many gifts the wilderness offers (on many thousands of acres of protected land), including respite, relaxation, rehabilitation, and inspiration — in many forms, including, but not limited to, skiing and snowboarding, hiking, trekking, scenic zip-lining, fly-fishing, horseback riding, riding chair lifts during a full moon, stretching out during mountaintop yoga, and breathing in fresh air in silence.

As any filmmaker (or hospitality professional) will tell you, it's all about setting a scene and filling it with good characters. There's plenty to mine here. Ride a scenic lift to the only mountaintop lodge in Utah. Have a drink in a 1890s-era bar restored and moved from Wyoming, where it was once a hangout for Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall Gang. Catch an outdoor theater performance on a blanket of grass in the middle of summer. Hook and zip with a 2,100-foot vertical drop (the most of any zipline in the U.S.A.) for breathtaking views and a hit of adrenaline.

Then retreat to a cozy leather chair in front of the stone fireplace of your rustic mountain cabin — and call it a very good day.

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TOTAL HIGH


Mountain Dale Is the Weirdly Awesome Up-and-Coming Catskill Town You Need on Your Radar

Ask anyone if they’ve heard of Mountain Dale and most would swear you were referencing an angsty teenage Netflix drama. Very few know about the sleepy hamlet, part of Fallsburg in Sullivan County, and to no fault at all.

But today, Mountain Dale is showing signs of life. The main street is home to a cute Vietnamese restaurant, a vintage boutique selling bikinis spun out of rabbit hair, an apothecary run by a fashion model, and an outpost of an Asbury Park coffee shop. A handful of other equally quirky businesses round out the first phase of a revitalization project poised to put Mountain Dale on the radar of the cool and curious looking for a weekend escape.

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A Spectacular Mountainside Retreat In the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains

Blackberry Farm, one of the best resorts in the United States, took over a mountain in rural Tennessee. It is bucolic bliss — a chic mountain resort set on 5,200 acres in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, with more than half of that land dedicated to conservation. The new Relais & Châteaux resort reminded me of a luxurious and discreet adult sleepaway camp with all the trappings of a five-star hotel.

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The Girl, the Gaucho, and the Andes

After arriving in Argentina with no expectations and no Spanish language skills, she found adventure, gorgeous views, and a feeling of being home away from home. A terrific reader story from the archives.

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