Awards & Recognitions

Serving North Georgia For Almost 100 Years

  • National Geographic Traveler’s Annual Top Stay List of 123 Hotels in the US, Canada, Caribbean, and Mexico.
  • Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence for both lodging and dining in 2011 through 2024
  • Trip Advisor Hall of Fame
  • Best Winter Stay, & Best Small Stay In The State – Southern Living
  • Open Table’s Diner Choice in 2012 through 2024
  • Top 10 Best Farm To Table Restaurants In Georgia
  • Top 100 Meals Loved By Locals In Georgia (Explore Georgia)
  • Top 100 Best Brunches In The United States – Open Table
Crab Oscar for breakfast with juice

Featured In

  • Conde Nast

  • National Geographic Traveller Magazine

LAKE RABUN HOTEL Lakemont, Ga. Lake lodge in northern Georgia, rehabbed (in 2008) by preservationist owner. Speaks the local vernacular with cedar-log bar and original 1920s Adirondack furnishings (beloved by President Carter). Alfresco dining under the hemlock. Wine tasting on pontoon boats. Downy beds invite sleep, lulled by summer chirp of tree frogs.

  • Frommer’s

  • Southern Living

Georgia’s Six Best Winter Escapes: There’s no better time than Feburary to seek the warmth of our favorite getaways. By Jennifer Barnes

“Why Go: For the lake framed by the Blue Ridge Mountains – it’s that simple, that promising. This 1922 cedar-hewn hotel is one of the great (and lesser known) small stays in the state… Get up early and plant yourself on the hemlock-shaded deck – there’s no fresher air in Georgia.” – GEORGIA’S SIX BEST WINTER ESCAPES by Southern Living Feb 2010

  • Southern Lady-Great Southern Getaways

  • Blue Ridge Country Magazing

“In the kitchen, Chef creates a culinary experience with each meal. He invents gourmet dishes from local produce and fresh ingredients-everything from local favorites to innovative nouveau cuisine.”-Blue Ridge Country, April 2011

  • Best of Atlanta – Atlanta Magazine

  • Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • GARDEN & GUN

  • Only in Your State-Lake Rabun Hotel & Restaurant

  • Laurel Magazine

  • Northeast Georgia Living

The air of the landscaped approach, from the parking area to the hotel itself, is alive with the aromatic fragrance that emanates from a canopy of cedar trees, punctuated by the sound of water gently falling into the reflection pool on the stone terrace. 2009, Timothy Revis

  • Fork in the Road

Emmy Award Winning Producer Films the Lake Rabun Hotel Six-time Emmy Award -Winning producer, David Zelski with his Videographer, Tom, spent most of last Thursday and Friday morning filming the Historic Lake Rabun Hotel for the Georgia Grown popular series “A Fork in The Road.” It airs on Georgia Public TV with a focus on, as you might guess, things that are grown in the state of Georgia, and that’s a lot! The Historic Lake Rabun Hotel was selected as a Farm to Table Restaurant in the North Georgia Mountains. Built in 1922 it’s been focused on what could be harvested here for a long , long time. A few of our vendors are also being featured in this film-places like Providence Farms in Georgia and North Carolina for its American Wagyu beef, known for superior flavor, Award-winning Moonrise Distillery in Clayton, Ga, that our bartender and customers can’t say enough good things about, nearby Blue Ridge Honey, and Burton Trout Hatchery. (Department of Natural Resources Division). Unfortunately, our local produce farms were past their season for filming. Stay tuned – I’m told that the Historic Lake Rabun Hotel film will air sometime in the spring, possibly April or May on A Fork in The Road TV I Georgia Grown as well as on Georgia Public TV and Home I The Georgia Network. We’ll let you know all the places where it will be. The film was sponsored by Forward Rabun and Georgia Grown. We’re thrilled and honored to have been selected for this film as we continue to celebrate 100 years of creating memories at The Historic Lake Rabun Hotel!