Coolfont Resort

Coolfont Resort is a resort hotel in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, operating from 1965 to 2006 and from 2020 to present.

In 1961, Sam Ashelman , a Washington, D.C. businessman who had been influential in the consumer cooperative movement, bought the property, consisting of about 1,200 acres including a landmark 1913 house built by author John Herbert Quick and called Coolfont in reference to nearby springs. In 1965, Ashelman, together with his wife Martha and Rosalyn and Alden Capen, established the hotel. The Ashelmans added numerous cabins, private homes, a conference center, and other buildings on the grounds. It became a West Virginia landmark visited by numerous famous guests, and noted as a retreat for Washington politicians who used the facility for both recreation and for policy discussions. Among the hotel's best known regular guests were Al and Tipper Gore, who famously got lost in the woods while hiking at Coolfont a few days after Al Gore was elected Vice President of the United States in the 1992 election.

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