| WORLD'S BEST HIDEAWAYS from 'Travel & Leisure' MOUNTAINS Could one of these MOUNTAIN RETREATS be 'your secret hideaway' - you know, the place you hold so dear, that you tell only a few stylish friends about it? Ask our Hideaway Specialists to find the World's Best Secret Mountain Hideaway for you! Best Mountain Hideaways Buckhorn
Inn Blackberry Farm is getting more attention. But if you like gracious Southern living without 'flash', the genteel Buckhorn is a good bet. Hike the inn's nature trail or just take in the view of misty Mount Le Conte from one of the rocking chairs on the flagstone terrace. Hard to believe that the cacophony of Gatlinburg is only six miles away! (Be sure to book a table in advance for the inn's excellent dinners.) Doubles from $115. Elmo
Hotel Set back from Trapani, on the west coast of Sicily. Pitched' at a cloud-scraping 2,300 feet in a ravishingly beautiful town. A modest, friendly, efficiently-run establishment. Perfect! And doesn't intrude on Erice's thick, brooding atmosphere. Doubles from $137. Roemerhof
at the Romantik Hotel Tennerhof Come in Summer and stay, not in the luxury-seeking skier's favorite, the Tennerhof, but in the less-expensive, but just-as-Tyrolian annex, the Roemerhof. Enjoy long walks in the countryside. then head to the Roemerhof's cafe for a glass of Gruner Veltiner (a dry white Austrian wine) and some Kaiserschmarren (sugar-dusted pancakes) before you tuck yourself under the eiderdown. Doubles from $156. Sleeping
Lady Owner Harriet Bulitt is an avid environmentalist who caters to both the artistic set and the Audubon crowd. A converted youth camp in the Cascade Range. Can stay in private cedar cabins clustered around courtyards and set among ponderosa pines, where, lying in your log bed, you can hear the river running right through the camp and the sounds of the hundreds of migratory birds that congregate there. Doubles from $220. Thanks
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