Our next overnight stay takes us to Canton, where we found an inn that's been entertaining guests since 1919.

Let's linger over spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, delicious foods and more at the Pisgah Inn.

[quaint music] - We're on the observation deck at the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

We're at an elevation of 5,000 feet.

Pisgah is a great place to get away.

We're only 30 minutes from Asheville, Waynesville, or Brevard, but it feels like you're 1,000 miles away.

There's hiking trails that lead in every direction from the inn.

You can climb to the summit of Mount Pisgah, which is 5,700 feet high.

But right here on this deck, we're actually 5,000 feet.

So it's a great place to get away, hike, have great food, and just decompress.

[quaint music] The original Mount Pisgah Forest Inn was built in 1919.

It's no longer here.

In the mid '60s, the Blue Ridge Parkway came through this area and the park service decided a new facility needed to be built.

This is the new facility, and it's been here since the mid '60s.

Pisgah Inn today consists of 51 hotel rooms, a restaurant, a gift shop, a country store, and a wine bar.

[quaint music] - We have a very diverse menu, a little something for everybody.

Some people want to come up for the comfort food and the Pisgah favorites, like the pot pie, the French onion soup, the trout.

Then we have a lot of opportunities for the foodie.

We've got racks of lambs, seared scallops, elk loin, all sorts of foodie adventures for you.

- We come here quite often, we stay, we come to dinner.

We've had many, many wonderful meals.

We enjoy the whole atmosphere of the place.

We like to come early, sit on the rockers, have a little cocktail, little snack, and prepare ourselves for dinner.

- [Bruce] All the rooms have either one king or two double beds, private bath, balcony or porch.

And the most important thing is that every room faces that great south view.

- We have a favorite room that we always try to have.

We've been coming here since 2003.

So special occasions, just during the week, we drive up from Hendersonville.

It's just a wonderful experience.

The staff, they've become like family to us.

I feel we belong here.

- It's a great experience, you know, they get to be like family after a while.

They come by and they call you out to the table and you stop by and see how their experience was.

And it's good to hear the constant improvement year after year.

'Cause that's our number one goal, is to get a little bit better every year.

- My favorite time of the day up here is dusk, when the sun is setting, sitting on my balcony or porch facing that great view with a good cabernet, it doesn't get any better than that.

- We celebrated our 60th anniversary by coming here a few weeks ago.

We love it, so there'd be no other place that we would rather come than here.

- [laughs] We've celebrated many anniversaries up here.

And yes, it is.

It is a very romantic place.

The drive up here, coming for dinner, walking the grounds, leave the world behind, and just the two of you.

- If you've never been here before, I encourage you to try to get up here.

Call ahead, book a reservation in the dining room, book a reservation for a room.

Come up here and join us.

But if you can't get a reservation, I still invite you to come up and just stand on this deck without a reservation.

They can have a glass of wine in the wine bar and enjoy that great view because that's what it's all about.

And that view belongs to all of us.

We're in the one of the best national parks in the country.

- We love to come to get away, commune with nature.

The views are absolutely spectacular.

We've seen quite a few mountains and these are our favorites.

It's not far from any place, but it's a world away.

[quaint music] - What do I love most about the Pisgah Inn?

What do you love most about your children?

I've been here 45 years, it does feel like it's a child.

And I love it when it's good.

And I love it when it's bad.

And I love it when it's great.

And I just love it all the time.

[quaint music] - [Announcer] The Pisgah Inn is at 408 Blue Ridge Parkway in Canton.

To book your room, give them a call at [828] 235-8228 or visit them online at pisgahinn.com.