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The Rosewood Country Inn

Norman
2004-08-11 16:53:39

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ample opportunities to star gaze and enjoy all the magic that Mother Nature offers. It even includes a small pond that I have been informed will shortly be stocked with fish, as well as waterfalls.

Decorated in early Americana, every detail has been attended to insofar as amenities and comforts. Some of the inn's rooms offer fireplaces, whirlpool tubs, sunlit porches, and all lead to an inviting common room.

Guests probably come just to savor Lesley's superb breakfasts that are included in the inn's tariffs. Others, I am informed by the innkeepers, find the inn so romantic, particularly honeymoon and anniversary couples, that they don't even want to venture out of their rooms. They have Lesley and Dick prepare their famous in-room picnic basket complete with a bottle of wine; shrimp cocktail, chicken-salad-filled croissant, marinated mushrooms, potato salad and cream puffs, and topped off with strawberries for dessert. They are now all set to spend the day in front of a crackling fireplace soaking up the romantic ambience of one of the inn's suites.

When we visited the inn in May of 2004, we were not at all surprised to learn that guidebook author Pamela Lanier in 2002 called the inn, "one of New Hampshire's Eight Most Romantic Inns" in Chronicle Books and Inn of the Year, and readers of Arlington's Bed and Breakfast Journal have voted it the most romantic B&B/Country Inn.

The inn is also popular as a wedding venue, as it specializes in small intimate affairs from two to eighty-five guests. These are celebrated in the Victorian gazebo overlooking the pond or candlelit by a romantic fireplace.

During the early 1900s such Hollywood celebrities as Jack London, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Chaplin and the Gish Sisters (Lillian and Dorothy) would pass a few days at the inn during the summer. Two of the inn's suites bear the names of some of these personalities - the Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford rooms.

Another important asset of Rosewood is that Bradford is easy to get to. Located fifteen minutes from Interstate 89, it is only an hour and half drive from Boston, yet it feels quite remote with its secluded romantic mountain inn atmosphere. Life does not get any better and you could not hope to find a lovelier place to spend a romantic getaway with the inn's close proximity to the Mt. Sunapee Lake Region, the area's many beaches and state parks, and not to forget great skiing at Mt. Sunapee Ski Area. As for hiking, biking, kayaking, canoeing, skiing, swimming, and fishing, it is all within easy reach of the inn.

Annual nearby events include concerts in the parks, the International Speedway in Loudon and Scottish Highland Games. Foliage season is unbelievable and reservations are required months in advance.

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