North American Countryside/Wilderness Luxury Venues

[For U.K. Countryside click here: English countryside hotels

In North America, leaving aside Mexico for the nonce, luxury country hotels and resorts can be bucketed in the general categories listed below. This is not, and is not meant to be, an exhaustive index so I welcome additions and discussion of the topic.

My general criteria -- Not gargantuan, not too corporate although instances of some some brands qualify, regional appeal and activities, beautiful setting, super service, commendable comestibles and potables, loaded with grace even when rural or casual, generous welcome, lovely comfortable accommodations, golfcourse not a plus.

Former Country Estates
The Point (Saranac Lake, NY)
Twin Farms (Vermont)
Manoir Hovey (Eastern Townships, Quebec)
Balantyre (Berkshires, Massachusetts)
Wheatleigh (Berkshires, Massachusetts)
Castle Hill Inn (Rhode Island, also in the Coastal category)

Coastal
Post Ranch Inn (Big Sur, California)
Hidden Pond (Maine)
Ocean House (Rhode Island)

Southern U.S. Seaboard
Lodge on Little St. Simons Island (Georgia)
Inn at Perry Cabin (Maryland, a Belmond property)

Napa Sonoma California
Calistoga Ranch (Calistoga)
Auberge du Soleil (Rutherford)
Meadowood (Rutherford)

Upscale Western Dude Ranches
Triple Creek (Montana)
Rock Creek (Montana)
Paws Up (Montana)
Brush Creek (Wyoming)

Nature Experiences
Tweedsmuir Lodge (British Columbia)
Nimmo Bay Lodge (British Columbia)
Clayoquot (British Columbia)

Other
Amangiri (Utah)
Amangani (Jackson's Hole, Wyoming)
Blackberry Farm (Tennessee)
The Swag (North Carolina, Great Smokey Mountains)
L'Auberge de Sedona (Arizona)
Four Seasons Encantado (New Mexico near Santa Fe)

A related category might be National Park Lodges less-grand-now-but-still-worth-a-visit, e.g., Ahwanee, the lodges at Banff, Yellowstone, Glacier. And, the unclassifiable Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York.