The Equinox Golf Resort & Spa

For people who have everything, this is the *resort* that has everything. An 1896 Adirondack-style boat house on a glimmering 14-acre pond? Check. Three tennis courts? Check. On-property exploits like sledding and fly fishing? They’re only the beginning. We particularly love that your room choices run the gamut, from an 1811 home once owned by Abraham Lincoln’s own granddaughter—where suites would wow even persnickety Mary Todd, with canopied beds and flickering fireplaces—to a sumptuous bi-level “Cupola Suite” with a 360-degree panorama over the landscape. Feel like moving in? Try one of their vacation rentals, full-on homes like the 5-bedroom Meadow House, which rings a contemplative pond and has screened porches perfect for sweet tea and your latest beach read binge.

A 199-room resort tucked on 855 acres of Green Mountain National Forest, with an 18-hole championship golf course, spa, five restaurants and adventures galore—including clay pigeon shooting with Orvis.

Lackluster. There’s a reason multiple U.S. Presidents have used their hard-earned vacation days here over the last two centuries.

The resort’s Orvis Experience partnerships means you can perfect your fly-fishing and sporting clay pigeon shooting with true pros (the latter use the English Churchill method of wingshooting—you’ll look like an extra in Downton Abbey). Bonus: you can also try their Land Rover off-roading course, 11 miles studded with hair-raising creek crossings.

After a day steeped in history, you can’t help but book a table at the resort’s Marsh Tavern—open since 1769—for dinner.

Marsh Tavern - Offers classic New England fare for lunch and dinner Chop House - Intimate steakhouse Falcon Bar - Holds more than 50 varieties of wine & single-malt scotches Dormy Grill - Cocktails with a view (open seasonally)