Sounds like a wonderful destination:
Developers Lee Hindin and Reza Fakhrieh set out to emphasize both at the Dakota Mountain Lodge, Utah’s first Waldorf Astoria luxury brand hotel, which opened without fanfare last month on a hillside just off the main entry to The Canyons Resort. And how did they do that? Well, for starters, the dominant wood in the lodge is not the knotty pine characteristic of so many mountain resort buildings. Instead, it is a hardwood stained dark to match the hotel’s cocoa-brown mohair drapes and carpets, interior designer Stephen Brady’s way of connecting Dakota Mountain Lodge to the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. – from SLC