Greyfield Inn
Cumberland Island, Georgia
4 North 2nd Street Suite 300, Cumberland Island, Georgia 32034
Original Property Opened in 1900
Historic Hotels of America member since 2000
Built in 1900 for Margaret Carnegie Ricketson, this graceful Colonial-style mansion was converted into an Inn in 1962 to ensure its preservation. Its elegant guestrooms are furnished in Victorian antiques, Tiffany lamps, and Chippendale furniture, and a well-stocked library boasts first editions and classics from the collection of the Carnegie family, who once owned about 90 percent of pristine Cumberland Island. Only a handful of visitors are allowed to visit the island each day, and without telephones, the area maintains its peaceful atmosphere right into the guestrooms. An inclusive American Plan package includes meals from the organic garden, recreational activities, a naturalist-led wilderness outing, kayaks, bikes, and ferry boat transportation.
Discover
- Discover the Colonial-style Greyfield Inn, built for a member of the Carnegie family in 1900, and opened to guests in 1962. The hotel and its grounds include 200 acres of Cumberland Island oceanfront land.
- Marvel at the hotel's late-Victorian antiques, Chippendale furniture, and Tiffany lamps. There are no telephones or televisions to interfere with the early-1900's ambience.
- Stroll the peaceful, uncrowded, unspoiled beaches and trails. The National Park Service restricts the number of daily visitors to the protected Cumberland Island National Seashore.
Explore
- Explore the island on a daily jeep tour led by two naturalists on staff at the hotel, or go on an escorted birding walk, available to all guests and included in the hotel's basic rate.
- Wander the Dungeness Ruins, a Carnegie home abandoned in the Great Depression that burned in 1959. It's part of a larger historic district that was home to several significant families in American history.
- Visit the small wooden First African Baptist Church, established in 1893 and rebuilt in the 1930s, where John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in 1996.
Experience
- Experience a stunningly clear view of the night sky from the remote island's beaches; there's no light pollution to interfere with stargazing.
- Take a bike ride, do some beachcombing or birdwatching, or go fishing. Greyfield Inn lends its guests fishing gear, bicycles, binoculars, and beach towels and equipment.
- Stroll along some of the 50 miles of foot-traffic-only trails that wander through sand dunes, saw palmettos, freshwater sloughs and maritime forest.
Taste
- Enjoy the three meals daily provided its guests by Greyfield Inn's chefs: breakfast, a picnic lunch, and a three-course dinner served at a shared table, highlighting the best of coastal Southern cooking.
- Taste the freshness of organic vegetables harvested from the inn's own gardens, honey from its own beehives, and know the inn sources humanely raised proteins.
- Indulge in a self-mixed cocktail in the Greyfield bar, or a beer or wine selection.
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