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This Esteemed Hotel in Asheville, NC, Is a Premier Playground for ‘Vagabonds’
June 6, 2025

This Esteemed Hotel in Asheville, NC, Is a Premier Playground for ‘Vagabonds’
By: Lauren Monitz Durie for Matador Network

There’s a subgroup of travelers that self-identifies as wanderers, nomads, or vagabonds. I’m guilty, too, and we’re in good company. In fact, the original Four Vagabonds — Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, who often road-tripped the countryside and camped together — used to meet up at The Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, every summer. What started as a grand mountain escape became one of America’s original vacation destinations, a pilgrimage of sorts for intrepid adventurers.

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