They are characterized by structural stone walls and full log construction and frame dwellings clad with half-log wood siding and fieldstone veneer, chimneys and terraces.

All the lodges were placed on a planned layout with a carefully organized system of boulder-lined unpaved roads, vistas and landscape features.

These qualities were evident in the buttressed field stone and half-log walls, swooping multi-color asphalt shingle roofs with peaks, asymmetrical roof pitches, prominent field stone chimneys, cantilevered entry canopies, free-standing peeled log arches at the entrances, window awnings, half-log flower boxes, small-paned steel and wood windows, field stone paths and steps, boulder borders, rock gardens with elf figurines and knotty pine interiors.

The ensemble blurred the line of fantasy and true reality with an inherent sense of humor.

The playful, fairy-tale aesthetic of Valhalla Highlands matched the community’s theme of a Nordic paradise.