Sixty-one rooms in the 1869 country inn at One Carter Notch Road in Jackson Village, private porch hot tubs and bathroom Jacuzzis throughout, the conservatory dining room, the village green at the door, and the Carter Notch view.
"Joshua Trickey's 1869 wedding gift to his daughter still hosts the New Hampshire honeymoon. Every room has either a private porch hot tub or a Jacuzzi tub; the village green is at the door; the inn is what the country-inn category meant before the category had a marketing committee."
Joshua Trickey built the Wentworth in 1869 as a wedding gift to his daughter Georgia and her husband-to-be General Marshall Wentworth, on a hillside at the entrance to Jackson Village in the Mount Washington Valley. General Wentworth began the property's expansion around 1880 on the English cottage-system model, the central manor and the satellite cottage rooms; Wentworth Hall, the central building completed in 1883, was described in period accounts as a reproduction of an English manorial hall of Queen Anne's day, with a smoking room, a children's-and-nurse's dining room, and thirty sleeping rooms painted in robin's-egg blue.
The Wentworth ran at the top of the Mount Washington Valley resort programme through the 1880s and 90s and survived as a New England country inn through the resort era's decline in the 1960s. The property was temporarily closed in 1971 and sat boarded-up and dilapidated through the decade. Fritz and Diana Koeppel acquired the inn in 1988 and undertook a sequential restoration that ran through the 1990s; their daughter and son-in-law (the second generation of the Koeppel ownership) operate the property today. The Wentworth remains family-managed, which sets it apart from the corporate-flagship grand resorts of the valley.
The 61 guestrooms are divided among the central manor and the satellite buildings on the wooded grounds, every category configured to the Victorian-inn vocabulary, four-poster beds, gas fireplaces, claw-foot or Jacuzzi tubs in the bathrooms, and (in roughly half the inventory) the private screened porch with the in-porch hot tub onto the Carter Notch view. The Wentworth's signature room is the Carter Notch Suite with the king-bed sleeping room, the separate sitting room with the gas fireplace, the south-facing screened porch with the private hot tub, and the Saco-River-and-Carter-Notch view. Room rates include the full New England breakfast served in the conservatory dining room.
The defining proposition is the New Hampshire honeymoon-inn experience that no larger property delivers. The Wentworth holds 61 rooms across a 1,200-acre village setting; the guest count tops out at 130 people; the village green is at the door; the Carter Notch trailhead is fifteen minutes' walk; the Jackson Cross-Country Foundation's 154-kilometre trail network runs from the inn. The conservatory dining room (Five-Course Prix Fixe nightly; AAA Four-Diamond) is the regional destination kitchen. The Wentworth runs at 95 percent occupancy from late June through the Columbus Day weekend and again from December 20 through the third week of February. The May, November, and early-December windows are the value-rate openings.
The Wentworth is the New Hampshire honeymoon booking. The Carter Notch Suite with the private screened porch and the in-porch hot tub onto the Carter Notch view, the conservatory dining room's Five-Course Prix Fixe (the regional destination kitchen of the Mount Washington Valley), the inn's family-managed personality (the second-generation Koeppels handle every honeymoon arrival personally), the Jackson Cross-Country Foundation's 154-km trail network in winter, the canoe-and-kayak programme on the Saco in summer, the inn's wedding programme runs at maximum capacity from May through October and the team knows exactly how to host a honeymoon.
For the milestone anniversary, the Wentworth is the alternative to the Omni Mount Washington for the couple that wants a quieter, more personal experience. The Carter Notch Suite, the conservatory dining room's tasting-menu evening, the Jackson covered-bridge walk at sunset, the property's intimate scale (61 rooms versus 269 at the Omni), the inn's discretion. The Wentworth's repeat-guest programme is extraordinary; couples return on the same week every year for thirty years.
The Wentworth is a proposal hotel. The Carter Notch Suite's private screened porch with the hot tub and the Carter Notch view at sunset, the conservatory dining room's window table on the Saco River, the inn's coordination of the dinner-and-room programme around the proposal itself (the staff have done this hundreds of times), the discretion that the corporate flagships cannot match. If you propose at the Wentworth and she says no, it wasn't the inn's fault.
1 Carter Notch Road
Jackson, NH 03846
United States
Jackson Village green; Carter Notch trailhead 15-min walk; Bretton Woods Ski Area 35 minutes; Boston Logan International 180 minutes; Portland ME 90 minutes
61 rooms & suites across central manor & satellite buildings
Standard Inn Room (Jacuzzi tub) from $325/night
Deluxe Room (gas fireplace) from $425/night
Carter Notch Suite (porch hot tub) from $545/night
Full breakfast included
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Built 1869; Wentworth Hall completed 1883; restored 1988-1990s by the Koeppel family; AAA Four-Diamond
Private porch hot tubs (half the inventory)
Jacuzzi tubs in bathrooms (all rooms)
Conservatory dining room (Four-Diamond)
Five-course prix-fixe dinner nightly
Full breakfast included in rate
Jackson Cross-Country Foundation trails
Canoe / kayak programme (Saco River)
Family-managed since 1988
From $325 / night. The Carter Notch Suite and the Deluxe Rooms book eight months ahead for foliage season (late September to mid-October), Christmas-through-New Year, and Presidents' Week. The value windows are May, the first three weeks of November, and the first two weeks of December. The inn runs a comprehensive package programme (the Romance Package, the Foliage Package, the Cross-Country Ski Package).
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