Keeping the birthday golf tradition alive on the gorgeous and highly challenging Old Course at The Omni Bedford Springs Resort. The beautiful Allegheny Mountains surround the historic course (c. 1895) while a babbling trout stream criss-crosses through it. Our room overlooked the golf course, allowing us to watch the blazing autumn sunsets. We both really [...]
We excel at spa-ing. It might be Dan's and my favorite thing to do together, besides golfing, cooking, gardening, and many other things... but knowing that a fabulous spa day is approaching, I tend to get a little giddy. As a longtime patron of Omni Hotels, the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, has been on [...]
Old Course at The Omni Homestead Resort I love a good history lesson! While researching the two golf courses at The Homestead- The Old Course (1892) and The Cascades (1924) - I learned the Old Course has the nation's oldest first tee in continuous use. It was a little geek-out golf moment to think we [...]
I have had longtime appreciation for the Omni Hotels brand and once again, they went above and beyond to help us put together a spontaneous trip to the historic Bedford Springs Resort just a few days out. The property is situated in the beautiful Allegheny Mountains of central Pennsylvania, where hot springs have drawn visitors [...]
Bedford Springs Resort and Spa The dreamy mountains of Cumberland Valley are conveniently positioned between Pennsylvania's capital of Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. Cumberland County is home to nearly fifty miles of the Appalachian Trail, hundreds of springs, ponds and lakes, a few storied universities, and pre-Revolutionary and Civil War history. Boating, hiking, fly-fishing, and touring covered bridges [...]
