Mountain cabins were made for rooms like this. Crackling fire dances in the stone fireplace while your guests chat idly over a game of pool. You can’t decide if you’d like to step out through the double doors to the patio for a cigar in the cool winter night, or head over to the wet bar for another snifter of brandy. The friends gathered around the fire on the rich, leather furniture laugh and talk, and you realize that entertaining in the great room is like living in a post card. Nowhere is it easier to truly relax and be yourself than in a room as warm and wonderful as this.

The vast amount of usable, well-designed space at Timber Creek Retreat continues on this lower level where evening turns to night, and the party gets casual and fun. There is plenty of seating and several entertainment zones to suit every need. Playing pool, mixing it up at the bar, dancing in front of the fire—whatever you choose, the great room is the place to entertain. Groups large and small can unwind both intimately in little pockets and all together in a rollicking, winter dance and play party.

6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, sleeps 28 – learn more about Timber Creek Retreat here.

Remember the kids’ table at Thanksgiving? It was usually wedged in somewhere cramped and inconvenient like the worst table in a restaurant, buffeted by wind from the swinging kitchen door, or worse, the faint aroma of a nearby bathroom. Meanwhile, the adults luxuriated in cushioned, high-backed chairs clinking crystal glasses. At the wobbly table in the corner, kids wondered wistfully when they’d be big enough to enjoy the finer things. Well, the tables, so to speak, have turned, and the kids get the last laugh in the Mount Baldy Retreat Kid Zone, a private space packed with all the best and reserved for kids only. 

As plush as any adult room and twice as fun, the Kid Zone features pool and foosball as well as board and video games for the competitive types. Laid back kids who prefer lower impact entertainment get a genuine built in movie projector complete with movies and a big screen while the nascent socialite in the group can play host at the soft drink bar. When it’s time for lights out, the puzzle piece-shaped couches convert to double beds so the entertainment hot spot transforms into cushy sleeping for four.  

6 Bedrooms, Sleeps 18 – learn more about Baldy mountain Retreat here.