Felicita's owners Richard and Alice Angino bought a 52-acre abandoned farm in 1971 and over the next 36 years acquired 810 acres, including an inn and restaurant, nudist colony, and golf resort community. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours were lovingly invested in creating incomparable gardens. Then, at a cost of 10 million dollars, overnight lodges were built, all existing buildings and infrastructure were enlarged and refurbished, and a 5200 square feet banquet ballroom was added. Every golf hole became garden-themed and the nudist colony community house was remodeled into a California-style spa.

As a Felicita guest, you can now access 750 acres of mountain land, trails, and maintained gardens, all surrounded by miles of state parks and game lands. The resort is only 10 miles and 12 minutes from Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg, 1-1/2 hours from Baltimore, 2 hours from Philadelphia and 2-1/4 hours from Washington, DC. Just minutes up Fishing Creek Valley Road is Penn National Racetrack with The Hollywood Casino. You can access The Appalachian Trail just beyond.

Other activities at the resort or nearby: swimming, rock climbing, hiking mountain trails, Audubon Trail bird watching, basketball, bocci, horseshoes, fishing and hunting. Harrisburg has several large shopping malls and outlet stores, an international airport, a train depot with direct trains to major cities in all directions, plus excellent museums and points of historical interest.

Gardens are everywhere. The largest and most well known is The Italian Garden, a formal, eight-acre series of themed gardens encompassing four large terraces crowned by an amphitheater that provides breath-taking views of Blue Mountain. With stone and stucco walls, reflecting pools, fountains, statuary, pavilions and pergolas, it is the largest of the Felicita gardens. Other gardens feature plants that attract butterflies, conifers from around the world, exotic Japanese landscaping and a pond setting straight out of a Monet painting. Some of the gardens are open to guests and self-guided tours while others require an admission fee and horticultural guide.

Felicita sells secure, numbered gift cards that can be valued and purchased for almost any price, This provides you with the opportunity to give a day at Spa Felicita or the golf course, or an evening of dining as a gift. You can order and pay for them with an easy phone call or online through this website.

The Spa offers full-service California-style treatments, a complete Cybex fitness center and a hot tub Sun Room with garden and mountain views. A variety of packages with or without overnight accommodations can be booked with a simple phone call. Lodging can be booked on-line.
The resort offers a range of meeting room choices: Boardroom for 12-15; class-room style Golf Room for 75-100; dividable Garden Banquet Room for 75-300.

Weddings and outdoor events can also be held in the grand Italian Gardens or Timber Trail Pavilion.

Dining Choices : The Golf Clubhouse Grille, with its covered porch and outside patio, offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner plus a full bar, seven days a week during golf season. The Tavern at the Golf Clubhouse offers a full menu Fridays & Saturdays in season and the Spa café offers light, healthy cuisine seven days a week. Other choices can be made for groups including our Tavern Steakhouse and the Garden Banquet Room.

The garden-like golf course was designed by William and David Gordon, has four tee choices, is public with private membership available and has a new irrigation system keeping the greens in excellent condition.

Lodging is shared between a "country-style" 13 room inn that includes a master apartment, single, double and queen rooms, and the 40-room mountain-side lodge complex. You can also stay in the 4 bedroom Golf House situated right on the golf course that sleeps 8, or our 3-Bedroom Lakewood Cottage on Lakewood Drive close to the clubhouse. Special packages offer lodging, spa and golf in a variety of combinations.

Residential options presently available include 33 building lots surrounding the golf course. In planning stages are a golf village and garden townhouses.