The new Lodge at Fall Creek Falls is a stunning example of how a team of architects, designers and builders can create a building that seems to meld into its surroundings. The lake, the virgin forest, the shoreline – they all work together to bring the new lodge into focus.
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As you come over the hill after a peaceful, beautiful drive down Park Road, passing rushing whitewater and stunning forests, the lodge opens before you, spread out at an angle so that every room has balconies overlooking Fall Creek Falls Lake.
“All of the rooms have a beautiful view. There’s not a bad view from any of them,” says Zonda Holloway, general manager.
The lodge opened in 1972, and at nearly 50 years old, needed a facelift. But it got more than that – a total teardown and rebuild. It took more than $40 million and four years, but now complete, rooms are beginning to fill.