Smaller Cabins, Condos, and Farmhouses
Historic Log Farmhouse Suite 1
Sitting Room, Sleep 6, Bedrm 1 - 2 QNs,
Bedrm 2 - 1 QN,
Pet Friendly.
Historic Log Farmhouse Suite 2
Sitting Room, Sleep 5, Bedrm 1 - 1 King,
Bedrm 2 - 1 QN and 1 Twin
Pet Friendly.
Log Cabin in Clearing
Living Room-Kit, Sleep 5, Bedrm 1 - 1 Queen,
Full Sleeper Sofa and Twin Sleeper Chair
Pet Friendly.
Itty Bitty Cottage
Handicapped accessible, small - 240 SF,1 Queen, Sleeps 2 max, roll-in shower, by Main Lodge. Pet Friendly.
Blackwood Cottage
Economy, no kitchen, 2 Bedrms, 1 Q, then 1 Full and 1 Set of Bunks, Sleeps 6 max. Microwave, fridge, outdoor grill, fireplace. Pet Friendly.
Greenwood Cottage
Economy, no kitchen, 2 Bedrms, 1 Q, then 1 Full and 1 Set of Bunks, Sleeps 6 max. Microwave, fridge, outdoor grill, fireplace. Pet Friendly.
Redwood #1 Condo
Handicapped accessible, 1 Queen, Sleeps 2 max, roll-in shower, by Main Lodge. Large porch, shared charcoal grill and fire circle.
Redwood #3 Condo
Economy, 2nd floor, 2 bedrooms, sleeps 7 max, 5 beds, 1 bath, full kitchen. No balcony or porch but shared outdoor table under trees, charcoal grill and fire circle.
Rose River Log Cottage
2 bedrooms, sleeps 8 max - 4 beds, 1 bath, full kitchen, overlooking Rose River, back & front porches, charcoal grill and fire circle. 1.5 miles from Main Lodge. Pet Friendly
Valley View Cottage
2 bedrooms, & sofa sleeper, sleeps 6 max - 3 beds, sofa sleeper, 1 bath, full kitchen, front porch, charcoal grill and fire circle.
Boxwood Farmhouse
2 bedrooms, sleeps 6 max - 3 beds, 1.5 baths, full kitchen, front porch, huge back deck, charcoal grill and fire pit. 1.5 miles downriver from Main Lodge.
Wild Wind School House on the Robinson River
Economy - 1 bedroom, 1 pass-thru bunk area and bunks in living-dining area, sleeps 6, 5 beds. 1.5 miles downriver from Main Lodge.
Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges Farm - VA Blue Ridge rental cabins resort next to Shenandoah National Park.
Here is an 1100 acre farm and hotel resort in the VA Blue Ridge, cradled by two mountains and watered by two mountain fishing streams.
Here are details about the Shenandoah National Park and Graves Mountain rental cabins.
The streams flow right out of the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Park, just above us. Our accommodations, hotel and cabins have trails, fishing, horse-back riding, road biking, dining, music, nature walks, fire-pits with s'mores, and fly-fishing clinics.
Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges Resort is immediately adjacent to lower portions of the Shenandoah National Park. This is at the lower side of the Park - the Eastern side.
Historic Log Farmhouse Suite 1, Sleeps 6
- Luxury renovation with small - itty-bitty 1800s size rooms by the Blue Ridge
Historic Farmhouse Suite 1
Bedroom 1 - two queen beds- Bedroom 2 - one queen bed
- Nonworking historic fireplace - no fires
- No Roll-aways are possible
- 1 Sitting Room
- 1 Full bath and 1 Half Bath
- Exterior Entry - no need to be in enclosed corridors
- Porch looking up hill to the Main Lodge, pool to the side
- Grill and fire pit available at Old Farmhouse
- Pets allowed - $35 pet fee per pet per stay.
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service.
- TV in sitting room Directv Service
- Microwave and Fridge
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
Historic Log Farmhouse from early 1800s.
Fully Renovated Suite with - downstairs a sitting room with half bath, upstairs - one bedroom with 1 QN bed and full bath (shower), second bedroom 2 QNS and half bath. Big, shared porch with rocking chairs in front.
Cleaning Fee - additional $50 per stay.
Pet friendly - $35 per pet per stay, maximum of two pets, please
Where on the Farm
Short walk to the Main Lodge - 300 yards or the pool - 150 yards.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice
– we are a Farm with a living meadow in front & forest around
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs, toads, frogs come to visit, while bear and deer may stroll by in the early morning. We do not use pesticides in nor outside the rooms.
Base Occupancy 6
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - FREE, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Jennifer from Cornerstone Lavender Farm. Workshops are held once a month. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm House Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Hiking up Old Rag and White Oak Canyon Trail - 7 miles up our back hollow road
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Historic Log Farmhouse Suite 2, Sleeps 5
- Luxury renovation with small - itty-bitty 1800s size rooms by the Blue Ridge
Historic Farmhouse Suite 2
- Bedrm 1 - 1 King
- Bedrm 2 - 1 QN & 1 Twin
- No Roll-aways are possible
- 1 Sitting Room
- 1 Full bath and 1 Half Bath
- Nonworking historic fireplace - no fires
- Exterior Entry - no need to be in enclosed corridors
- Porch looking up hill to the Main Lodge, pool to the side
- Grill and fire pit available at Old Farmhouse
- Pets allowed - $35 pet fee per pet per stay.
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV in sitting room
- Microwave and Fridge
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
Historic Log Farmhouse from early 1800s.
Fully Renovated Suite with - downstairs a sitting room with large NON-WORKING fireplace; half bath, also 1 King Bedroom with Full Bath (shower), - in sitting room, upstairs - one bedroom with 1 QN bed and 1 Twin, half l bath.
Big shared porch with rocking chairs in front.
Cleaning Fee - additional $50 per stay.
Pet friendly - $35 per pet per stay, maximum of two pets, please
Where on the Farm
Short walk to the Main Lodge - 300 yards or the pool - 150 yards.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice
– we are a Farm with a living meadow in front & forest around
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs, toads, frogs come to visit, while bear and deer may stroll by in the early morning. We do not use pesticides in our outside the rooms.
Base Occupancy 5
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Mountain Biking at Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges in the Blue Ridge
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, stupendous road and mountain biking then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Joanie's Place Log Cabin - Secluded, Sleeps 5
- Modern 1990's Classic Appalachia Loft Cabin
Joanie, our pet black cow and excellent mother - at Sunrise. She may come to visit, to say hello.
Joanie's Place
- Bedroom in Loft- 1 QN
- Sleeper Full Sofa
- Twin Pull Out Lounger
- Living and Kitchen with Wood Stove Fireplace
- 1 Full bath/shower on Ground Floor
- Porch looking over meadow clearing and hills
- Grill
- Pets allowed - $35 pet fee per pet per stay.
- Satellite WiFi- that allows for hesitant cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV in sitting room - for streaming only
- Full Kitchen
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Firepit in ruins of chimney for old CCC school house.
Cozy Log Cabin AirBnB next to Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Mountains
Sleeps 5 - 1 queen bedroom loft, 1 double bed pull-out sofa, 1 chair twin size pull-out.
Dog Friendly - max two dogs, additional fees per stay - $35 per stay per dog
Horse Friendly - $30 per day per stall, must muck-out into muck buckets and clean any hotwire area. Hay bales available through the Farm.
Cabin Cleaning Fee - $50
Resort Facilities at Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges, 1.75 miles drive or hour hike through forest and overlooking our meadows on the "Bear Trail", ancient Native American way.
Joanie, the Pet Black Cow is Your Mascot
Our pet cow, Joanie, reared by Zoe and Missy Graves, lives just over the fence and is eager to visit. She is skilled at hopping over our cattle guards. She may greet you and is keen on cookies. Just give us a call and we will introduce you formally. She is partial to front porches - for the view. She's a big girl so just keep a little distance in case she turns faster than you.
Joanie's Place is a 1990's log cabin set in a meadow clearing with views from the front porch of the low hills to the east, while behind is 3400 foot Doubletop Mountain and 18 plus miles of hiking trails that go over to our home farm or into Shenandoah National Park.
Where on the Farm
1.75 miles from Main Lodge and its facilities. On road, Quaker Run, that goes into Rapidan mountains and drainage.
Peaceful isolation surrounds this classic loft style cabin, yet our guests also have all of Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges' facilities nearby - farm to table restaurant, Market-Deli, seasonal pool, seasonal events, live music on Friday - open mic night by the fire, bluegrass - Appalachian on Saturday. :: See calendar here > https://www.gravesmountain.com/calendar-events-shenandoah-blue-ridge/
Activities- Experiences
Fly fishing (access to two mountain streams, two ponds), horse-back riding, swimming, hiking 18 miles of trails on our farms with a hundred more miles in the Park, workshops, classes, and massages, world class road biking and varied mountain biking, farm animals. 1800 of our own farm acres to explore.
The Cabin
Appalachian style front porch to hang out on, large downstairs living space with wood burning stove fireplace, sofa sleeper full size pull-out, chair twin sized pull-out, cathedral ceiling above, full kitchen, dining table, tub/shower bathroom. Upstairs to loft bedroom - large, windows with back woods view.
Media & Connectivity
TV - for streaming from your devices, WiFi (satellite speed), connect to cell phone through WiFi only - sorry, no cell in these Blue Ridge valleys.
WiFi - not too speedy as it is satellite
Cell - connect with WiFi Switch phone to WiFi mode. Best for texting as a conversation will have lag time and be weak.
Landline - yes you have one.
Stables - three stalls - additional $30 per stall per day. Need hotwire if intend to pasture on our small meadow as fencing and cattle are not secure. Terrific trails - over a hundred miles of them start from back double track.
History - built next to old chimney stack of log school house from the 1930's built by the CCC that was also building President Hoover's fishing lodge on the Rapidan. Yes, you can ride or hike to there.
Famous Hiking
Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - famous hikes into the Park.
We are 6.5 miles from the back entrance to Old Rag trails, and 9.5 miles from the Front. 5.5 miles straight up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon. Doubletop Challenge - behind the cabin is a trail to access our own Doubletop Mountain, at 3400 feet, 200 feet higher than Old Rag and a steep challenge it is.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with living meadow in front of you and forest around you, an orchard down the way.
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs visit. Stink bugs are plentiful but will not hurt you. We do try not to spray pesticides.
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Road Biking - easy to extremely challenging climbs and drops
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Itty Bitty Cottage at the Old Farmhouse
-economy, no kitchen, by the Blue Ridge
Itty Bitty Cottage at the Old Farmhouse
- economy, no kitchen, pet friendly
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay, maximum of two
Touring two great historic houses - Monticello and Montpelier
- Sits short walk from pool and Main Lodge
- 1 room, 1 queen bed
- Accessible, roll-up to porch, roll-in shower
- Porch looking up hillside
- Shared firepit
- Bathroom with accessible shower and facilities
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
-
TV - satellite
- Microwave and Fridge
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
Single room, 1 Queen, Porch
Pet Friendly
Porch with up-hillside view toward Main Lodge with rocking chairs, shared gas grill, and firepit.
Interior décor – modest, old school
Pet-friendly. Maximum 2 dogs. $35.00 per dog per stay, due at check in.
Where on the Farm
Short walk to the Main Lodge or pool
- Coffee available at the Main Lodge through day and night.
Little Critters Notice
– we are a Farm with a living meadow in front & forest around
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs, toads, frogs come to visit, while bear and deer may stroll by in the early morning. We do not use pesticides in our outside the rooms.
Base Occupancy 2
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Horse-back riding on our 18 miles of trails that lead to 100 miles in the National Park.
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Blackwood Cottage
- economy, no kitchen, pet friendly, sleeps 6, 4 beds
Blackwood Cottage
- economy, no kitchen, pet friendly
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay, maximum of two
Natrure walk and pond explore
- Adjacent to its twin - Greenwood Cottage
- 2 Bedrooms - 4 beds sleeping up to 6: one with double, one with double and 2 bunk beds
- Dining, work table and chairs
- Sofa and comfy chair
- Fireplace
- Porch overlooking valley and trees. With rockers and gas grill for cooking
- Shared firepit
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV in living room area
- Microwave and Fridge, small wash up skink, but no cook-top, although gas grill on porch for cooking--does not have a full kitchen.
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
Two bedrooms sleeping up to 6 - #1 has one double and two bunk beds stacked, #2 has one double bed.
This cottage can be reserved with its twin - Greenwood - for a small get-together.
Porch with valley and Blue Ridge view and rocking chairs, gas grill for cooking. Across the valley is Shenandoah National Park, 7 miles up the back hollow.
Interior décor – wood paneling and simple, rural furnishings.
Pet-friendly. Maximum 2 dogs. $35.00 per dog per stay, due at check in.
Where on the Farm
Short walk or drive from main Lodge up hill to low bluff overlooking our stream valley, the farm, and the Blue Ridge
- Coffee available at the Main Lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice
– we are a Farm with a living meadow in front & forest around
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs, toads, frogs come to visit, while bear and deer may stroll by in the early morning. We do not use pesticides in nor outside the rooms.
Base Occupancy 6
Additional Occupants $10 each
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Camp-fire, s'mores and local music at Graves Mountain Farm.
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Greenwood Cottage
- economy, no kitchen, pet friendly, sleeps 6, 4 beds
Greenwood Cottage
Huge pool with lifeguards and sign-in controls. Seasonal - Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day
- economy, no kitchen, pet friendly
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay, maximum of two
- Adjacent to its twin - Blackwood Cottage
- 2 Bedrooms - 4 beds sleeping up to 6: one with double, one with double and 2 bunk beds
- 1 Bathroom
- Dining, work table and chairs
- Sofa and comfy chair
- Fireplace
- Porch overlooking valley and trees. With rockers and gas grill for cooking
- Shared firepit
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV in living room area
- Microwave and Fridge, small wash up skink, but no cook-top, although gas grill on porch for cooking--does not have a full kitchen.
- Coffee Maker
- Hair Dryer
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
Two bedrooms sleeping up to 6 - #1 has one double and two bunk beds stacked, #2 has one double bed.
This cottage can be reserved with its twin - Blackwood - for a small get-together.
Porch with valley and Blue Ridge view and rocking chairs, gas grill for cooking
Interior décor – wood paneling and simple, rural furnishings.
Pet-friendly. Maximum 2 dogs. $35.00 per dog per stay, due at check in.
Where on the Farm
Short walk or drive from main Lodge up hill to low bluff overlooking our stream valley, the farm, and the Blue Ridge
- Coffee available at the Main Lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice
– we are a Farm with a living meadow in front & forest around
The meadow comes up to the door, so you will have bugs, toads, frogs come to visit, while bear and deer may stroll by in the early morning. We do not use pesticides in nor outside the rooms.
Base Occupancy 6
Additional Occupants $10 each
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Learn how to mountain climb at Graves Mountain Farm and Lodges. We partner with Shenandoah Mountain Guides
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Redwood #1 - Condo with Two Bedrooms
- sleeps 6, 3 beds, by VA Blue Ridge and Shenandoah National Park
Redwood #1 Condo
Stream down from Redwood - also nearby pond
- 2 bedrooms. 1 accessible bath, sleeps 6
- Handicapped accessible - drive up on grass to front sliding door access
- Roll-in shower
- Bedroom 1- 1 queen bed
- Bedroom 2 - 2 Queen Beds
- Living and dining area opens to porch
- Open full kitchen
- Work/Dining table
- Sofa and comfy chairs
- Exterior Entry
- Porch under balcony above, looking out over meadow and trees toward Kite House, rocking chairs
- Stream just down the way
- Pond is short walk
- Charcoal grill and shared fire pit
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV - full Satellite service
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
- Not pet friendly
The accessible condo is the ground floor of a three condo house set in a meadow, surrounded by forest on two sides and meadow on the other two. Small "creek-let" runs by trees.
For larger groups one or two other condos can be added with joint internal access.
Large living/dining area opens to full kitchen
Two bedrooms, one accessible bath. Pne droom with 1 queen and one with two queens.
High Speed WiFi - Fiber Optic in lodges, BUT no cell service in the valley. Here we use Internet to Cell and Cell to Internet - available with most carriers.
Where on the Farm
Redwood is a half mile from the Main Lodge and sits above Rose River. It is an easy walk along the gravel track to the Main Lodge.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with a living meadow in front of you
The meadow comes right up to your room, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 6
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Hiking up Old Rag and White Oak Canyon Trail - 7 miles up our back hollow road
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Redwood #3 - Condo with Two Bedrooms, alcove and cot alcove
- sleeps 7, 5 beds in the VA Blue Ridge
Redwood #3 Condo
Farm-yard and animals.
- 2 bedrooms. 1 accessible bath, sleeps 7, economy
- Shared entrance with #2 Condo
- 2nd floor - stairs
- Economy
- Bedroom 1- 1 queen bed
- Bedroom 2 - 1 Queen Bed, 1 twin in alcove, 1 cot in alcove
- Sleeping alcove off living/dining are --1 rwin
- Living and dining area - small
- Small full kitchen
- Work/Dining table
- Sofa and comfy chairs
- Stream just down the way
- Pond is short walk
- Charcoal grill and shared fire pit
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV - full Satellite service
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
- Not pet friendly
The condo is on the 2nd floor of a three condo house set in a meadow, surrounded by forest on two sides and meadow on the other two. Small "creek-let" runs by trees.
For larger groups one or two other condos can be added with joint internal access.
Small living/dining area under eaves opens to kitchen, two bedrooms and alcove with twin beds, and small bathroom.
High Speed WiFi - Fiber Optic in lodges, BUT no cell service in the valley. Here we use Internet to Cell and Cell to Internet - available with most carriers.
Where on the Farm
Redwood is a half mile from the Main Lodge and sits 300 feet from Rose River, accessible from Kite House. It is an easy walk along the gravel track to the Main Lodge.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with a living meadow in front of you
The meadow comes right up to your room, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 7
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Fly Fishing on Our Two Mountain Streams - stocked with Trout
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Rose River Log Cabin - overlooking the stream
- sleeps 8, Two bedrooms, 4 beds
Rose River Log Cabin
-
Apple Hravest Festival at Graves Mountain - October weekends
2 bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, sleeps 8
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay
- Bedroom 1- 1 Queen
- Bedroom 2 - 2 Queens
- Living Area- 1 King
- Living and dining area open on to front porch with rockers
- Full kitchen
- Work/Dining table
- Sofa and comfy chairs
- Stream just in back
- The VA Blue Ridge just above
- Front & Back Porches
- Charcoal grill and fire pit
- No WiFi - please go Main Lodge or Market for High Speed connection
- No Cell Calling - please go to Main Lodge or Market for connection via WiFi
- Satellite TV in the living room area
Overlooking Rose River, an 1880s cozy log cabin, two floors, isolated- on its own.
1.5 miles upriver from our Farm and Main lodge
Well appointed with Clore and Crate & Barrel furniture.
Fireplace
Front and back porches. Back porch overlooks Rose River.
Charcoal grill and fire circle.
Sleeping 8 in four beds,
Two bedrooms - one with 1 queen, one with two queens, and a King bed in the corner of the living area.
Two baths - one full downstairs and one half bath between the two upstairs bedrooms.
Tech Mostly Unplugged
No Internet, so also no cell access. Access WiFI and cell calling via Wifi at the Main Lodge or Market.
Satellite TV - the cabin does have this tech marvel.
Where on the Farm
Rose River is 1.5 miles from the Farm and Main Lodge.
- Sits above the mountain stream that runs through the farm (downstream)
- Just off the Old Blue Ridge Turnpike that becomes the double track Rose River fire road up to the Blue Ridge to the Skyline Drive area.
- The road that the cabin sits on - Fink's Hollow Road - takes you up to the beginning of the Upper Dark Hollow trail that will take you up the falls and above to the Blue Ridge Skyline Drive area.
Little Critters Notice – the cabin is surrounded by forest.
The forest and grass come right up to the cabin, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 8
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Fly Fishing on the lower part of Rose River
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Valley View Cottage with Two Bedrooms, sofa sleeper
- sleeps 6, 3 beds plus full sofa sleeper
- cabin rentals at our VA Blue Ridge Resort
Valley View Cottage
Get to Know the Horse - at the stable
- 2 bedrooms, 1 sleeper sofa, sleeps 6
- 2 floors - bedrooms are downstairs
- Bedroom 1- 1 queen bed
- Bedroom 2 - 2 Twins
- Sleeper sofa on entrance floor Living and dining and kitchen are all open plan
- Full kitchen
- Work/Dining table
- Sofa and comfy chairs
- Fireplace
- Charcoal grill and fire pit
- Fiber Optic WiFi- that allows for Cell service calling and receiving - even without cell service
- TV - full Satellite service
- Cell phones - connect to your network via our WiFi both to call out and receive calls. We are remote so no cell towers available.
- Not pet friendly
The cottage is set on the hillside above the Main Lodge with a treed view through to the valley and the Blue Ridge beyond.
Large ground floor living/dining/kitchen with fireplace.
Small front porch - looking up hill to forest. Trail just to the sie, going up Doubletop with a branch into our valley on the other side.
Fire pit and charcoal grill.
High Speed WiFi - Fiber Optic in lodges, BUT no cell service in the valley. Here we use Internet to Cell and Cell to Internet - available with most carriers.
Where on the Farm
500 yard walk down steep hill to Main Lodge.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with a living meadow in front of you
The meadow comes right up to your room, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 6
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Local music talent most Saturdays - when weather and Covid permits as outside
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Boxwood Farmhouse with Two Bedrooms
- sleeps 6, 3 beds
Boxwood Farmhouse
Wildlife on the Farm - here a fawn in the woods
- 2 bedrooms, sleeps 6
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay, 2 pets maximum
- 2 floors
- Bedrooms on 2nd Floor
- Bedroom 1- 1 queen bed
- Bedroom 2 - 2 Full beds
- Full, separate kitchen
- Dining table in kitchen
- Living room with large stone fireplace, sofa and comfy chairs
- Charcoal grill and fire pit
- TV - full Satellite service
- High Speed Internet that allows for WiFi calling. No cell service in the immediate area, but wifi calling is available with the high speed internet service.
Log and stone farmhouse set by a meadow with valley and mountain view, framed by the Virginia Blue Ridge at our resort.
Robinson River - excellent fishing is 250 feet beyond the boxwood hedge, but not visible.
Swimming hole on Robinson River - just up the way on one of our lanes.
2 Bedrms, one Queen Bedroom and one with two full beds., sleeping 6,
Full kitchen, one-half bath, one full bath.
Big porches,
Pet-friendly. Maximum 2 dogs. $35.00 per dog per stay, due at check in.
Charcoal grill and fire-pit.
Where on the Farm
2 miles downstream from our Main Lodge, Restaurant, and Farm. Wild Wind cabin is across the street and can be paired.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with a living meadow in front of you
The meadow comes right up to your room, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 6
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Jenn Mintz - Nature walk Saturday Mornings - one of our free learaning/discoveries
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.
Wild Wind - log cabin school house on Robinson River
Economy - 1 bedroom, 1 pass-thru bunk area and bunks in living-dining area
- sleeps 6, 5 beds
Wild Wind School House on Robinson River
- 1 bedroom, 1 Pass-thru sleeping porch, 1 Set of Bunks in Living, sleeps 6
Apple Harvest Festival at Graves Mountain - October weekends
- Pet Friendly - $35 per pet per stay, 2 pets maximum
- 1 floor
- Bedroom 1- 1 queen bed
- Pass-thru - 2 Bunk Beds
- Living area - 1 full sleeper sofa
- Small kitchen
- Dining table in living area
- Charcoal grill and fire pit
- TV - full Satellite service
- High Speed Internet allows for WiFi calling since there is no cell service in the immediate area.
Log and stone schoolhouse from the 1930's, overlooking Robinson River - excellent fishing and swimming hole. The VA Blue Ridge is just up the road.
Robinson River - excellent fishing is 250 feet beyond the boxwood hedge, but not visible.
Swimming hole on Robinson River - just up the way on one of our lanes.
1 Bedrm, one Queen Bedroom, 1 pass-thru sleeping area with 2 bunk beds, and 1 full sleeper sofa in living room, sleeping 6,
Full small kitchen, one full bath.
Big porch overlooking river.
Pet-friendly. Maximum 2 dogs. $35.00 per dog per stay, due at check in.
Charcoal grill and fire-pit.
Where on the Farm
2 miles downstream from our Main Lodge, Restaurant, and Farm. Boxwood cabin is across the street and can be paired.
- Coffee available at the main lodge from 7:30 AM.
Little Critters Notice – we are a Farm with a living meadow in front of you
The meadow comes right up to your room, so please expect that bugs, butterflies, toads, and caterpillars will find you as well as a bear or deer that might amble by. Our world is about growing a resilient environment so we try to use as few pesticides as we can.
Base Occupancy 6
Adventuring at the Farm on 1100 Acres Bordering the National Park
Long view of our Rose River Valley & the Blue Ridge
Hiking
Our own 18 miles of trails - easy strolls rising to really tough uphill to 3200 feet - not Old Rag but tough enough to kick a butt or three. It's one of our own two mountains. This one is "Doubletop", the other one - lower - is, of course, Graves Mountain.
Up the classic Shenandoah National Park hikes - Old Rag and White Oak Canyon - both just up our back hollow road - 7 miles.
Fly Fishing
Three mountain streams - two here on the farm and the Rapidan a short drive. Two streams are stocked and natives are higher up. On your own or with a guide.
Pond Fishing
Two ponds. One with bass and catfish, one with stocked trout - seasonal.
Fly Fishing Guided
Learning with one of our guides. He will start you off with a Fly Rod or hone the skills you want to have - like mountain stream fishing for wily natives.
Horse Riding
Trail Rides - 1 hour to all day. Through orchards, meadows, woods and up our mountains
Lessons with Eddie and Leah - from "Get to Know the Horse" to high level communication.
Overnight Camping Trail Ride - Long day in the saddle winds up at Rapidan camping area with feast from the cam-fire, tents set up for you, sleeping bags ready, then trail ride breakfast, pack-up and the trails back to the Farm.
Road Biking
Flats through the valley and up rural side turns.
Turn by Turns as set up by the "Tour de Madison", our local road bike challenge in mid-May.
Super challenges to get you ready for a Tour e France if not the Rockies' Triple By-pass. On little traveled roads, you will hear the cars coming, on no verge roads. Here we have bye ways up down and around, up down and around, back down and back-around.
Mountain Biking
Doodling along our dirt roads, riding along meadows, through orchards, by ponds, and streams.
Long pulls up non-technical double tracks to above us - to the top of the Blue Ridge.
Tough, technical scrambles along trails to the tops of our two mountains - strong skills needed on rough trails that are rich in rock.
Mountain Climbing
- learn or hone your skills with our partners, Shenandoah Mountain Guides
Full day - drive up to Old Stony. Minimum of four, please, or check what other groups may be booked so that you can join in and make new mates.
Cascading Down Waterfalls
- wet and slithery
- learning to rappel down the falls in White Oak Canyon. Shenandoah Mountain Guides leads and makes it not seem scary.
Full day - drive up our back hollow road to White Oak Canyon, hike to the top of the waterfalls and start to learn the tools of the slipping and sliding. Minimum of four, please. Weekdays only as too many people in the falls during weekends. We need peace to learn.
Trail Running
Flat around the meadows and orchards
Killer up the mountains
Craft beers when beat
Farm Life Exploring
- life's better on the farm
Farm Yard Exploring with the goats, chickens, pet pigs and calf
Egg collecting at the Valley Chicken Coop - below the Main Lodge.
Walking with Ellie and Bootsie - pet pigs and not so little any more, plus BB the pet calf.
Goat play - along with wondering at the `monster pigs and non-monster self-shearing sheep.
Cattle and calves - also Longhorns in the field by the entrance to the Farm.
Horses and Ponies - trail rides and learning..
Swimming in our "swimming hole". Yes, getting wet and splashing does not not always have to be in a pool.
Spotting bears, deer, little beetle and bug critters around the cabins and lodge rooms, eagles, herons, owls, hawks and vultures.
Just Playtime
Huge pool - seasonal, - Memorial Day Weekend through Labor day.
Strolling around the ponds, in the orchards, along the stream.
Swimming - huge Pool - seasonal (not heated), Memorial Weekend through Labor Day.
Swimming hole play in the stream.
Campfire with S'mores
- Fri, Sat and anytime you want at your cabin or lodge fire-pit.
Local Music and Beverages - Sat afternoons with our best local vineyard's wines, our own hard cider, Graves Mountain "Squeeze", local craft beer, and moonshine. Living LOCAL.
Massages – must book ahead, please.
Vineyard Tours – four Vineyards within 30 mins. One, the best, DuCard, is just over the hill. Superior wines framed by vineyards and Blue Ridge. A rural experience looking up to where our orchards were in the 50's. Living LOCAL
Craft Brewers tour – four brewers within 30 mins. Living LOCAL.
Game Room at the Lodge - board games, puzzles and ping pong
Games in your cabin
Library at Poplar Lodge
Corn Hole - also regular Corn Hole tournaments that are master-minded by one of our farmers, Kaleb, who is variously #1 or #2 in the country - along with his sister and younger brother who both compete. Living LOCAL.
Horseshoes - down by the river
Volleyball - we have a sand court next to the pool, Covid allowing
Badminton & croquet - available by the pool, Covid allowing
Touring the sights – the historic houses, meandering the byways, Luray Caverns, Skyline Drive
Antiquing – 70,000 sq. ft. in Ruckersville – 30 mins
Barn Quilt art tour through Greene County. We have one of the barn quilts on our Main Lodge
Rocking Chair lazy day. We do that too here.
Festivals of Farming & Community
All subject to Covid process and as a result may be postponed to the next year
Early April
Heritage Trout Fishing Day
- special day for young fisher folk with Trout Unlimited along our streams and on our ponds
Weekend Following Memorial Day
Music Festival - Roots & Branches of Bluegrass
- three days Bluegrass - our Mountain Heritage and where it has grown - that's the roots and branches, jamming, hikes, yoga, bike rides, mountain climbing.
Fourth of July
Fireworks and Band for Madison County
Here at the Farm for the whole County.
Last weekend of July
Peach Day Festival
Farm stand and Peaches of course, music, food, local beer and wine tent.
Throughout the year - approximately 3 weekends
Bluegrass Jams – in the Campground
First three weekends in October
Apple Harvest Festival
Apples, apple picking, pumpkins, squashes, apple butter doughnut, cider, hard cider, wines beers, hay-rides, farm-yard, hay mountain, hay maze, food, stream playing, local mountain music, Birds of Prey Shows- Raptor Encounters, and lots of things we should not be eating, over 75 vendors.
Halloween
- new tradition of the Haunting of the Apple Packing Shed, now a local tradition led by the Hurt Family who live nearby and two of whom work on the Farm.
New Year's Eve
- local band and good times with local brews, Covid allowing.
Valentine's
- local band and good time with local brews, Covid allowing.
Discovering
Learning & Discovery on the Farm - here with Steve and his hawk.
Nature Discovery Walk - Sat at 11 AM - 12:15 PM - free, with Jenn and Daniel Mintz. History, geology, and nature at work in the valley. For all ages. Living LOCAL.
Raptor Encounters - most weekends, Sat & Sun in season. See and learn about birds of prey on the wing.
Walk with a Hawk - special schedule. Living LOCAL.
Get to Know the Horse - Thu, Sat & Sun 1:30 - 2 PM, in season, free.
Eddie and Leah at the Farm Stables introduce how a horse thinks and responds to its world, with us beside it. Living LOCAL.
Watercolor Learning Workshop with Lou Messa. Monthly workshop for learners and wise ones. Lou is a local Blue Ridge landscape legend who loves to grow new artists. Living LOCAL.
Soap Making Class - workshop with Charlotte and Brian of Old Rag Soap Co. Once a month but also weekends for groups of at least two. Living LOCAL.
Team Building with resident gurus "TeamLink".
They train the "Seals" and Fortune 500 groups and local non-profits.
Home Cooking on Graves Mountain
the Farm Restaurant with Southern Home-style Cooking
- at the Farm Restaurant
- to-go at the Market
Southern Flavors and Special Diets
Southern home-style traditional flavors with contemporary twists - pot pies, skillet fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, smoked BBQ along with basics such as burgers, quiche, lasagna and vegetarian options.
Kids Meals and Family Friendly Pricing
Child Half Price Discount - 14 to 6 yrs
Toddler Free - 5 and down yrs.
Kids Menu with Sides $7
Vegetarian and Gluten Free
We always have vegetarian options along with gluten free suggestions. In addition to the menu, please ask for what the chef can do for you.
Living LOCAL.
Most of our vegetables come from our neighboring farms in season.
We make our own Apple Butter, jams, jellies, and cider - also now our own Hard Cider - Graves Mountain "Squeeze".
Wines, beers, and spirits - Living LOCAL.
DuCard Vineyard is our local partner, just one hollow over. Julien crafts fine French style wines.
Beer Hound Brewers in Culpeper brew our craft beers.
Hard Cider - we make our own special "old style" hard cider - our "Squeeze".
Moonshine - Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine and Bourbon both come from Belmont Farms in Culpeper.
Market Deli & Tackle
Our corner store has prepared foods for dinners to go from the Farm Restaurant, hot and cold deli sandwiches.
Deposit, Cancellation, Check-in & Check-out
Covid
If you would like a no-touch check-in and check-out, please just ask us by e-mail or telephone request. You can just respond to our pre-arrival emails. Address: info@gravesmountain.com
Check In Time
4:00 PM
Check Out Time
11:00 AM
Late Checkout
Please ask if we may be able to accommodate this for you, however an extra day's charge will be added if accommodations are not vacated on time.
Deposit Required
Typically a one night deposit is collected on your booking. It is refundable with 72 hour notice or, of course, as Covid needs.
Cancellation and Covid
Full refund if cancellation is at least 72 hours of arrival. Of course, Covid change of plan will always be accommodated.
Two night minimum
During Holidays, Special Events, and Weekends during high season, there are two and three day minimum stays.
Cabins frequently have a two day minimum associated with them and also have a cleaning fee added to the total bill.
Road Biking from Graves Mountain Farm & Lodges - through the Blue Ridge
12 Outdoor Adventures and a Whole Farm to Get to Know
Hiking and fishing on our 1100 acres and National Park, horse-back riding, onto rock climbing, then just sitting in a rocker or giving in to a massage - even Reiki.
Huge seasonal pool, volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, corn-hole, ping pong, board games, and books - a whole library for you.
Two mountain streams, two ponds, and 18 miles of trail plus Old rag and White Oak Canyon trails up the back hollow.
Farm Life Exploring
Chicken egg collecting, pet pigs walking, pet calf, goat play, horses, cattle all in the farm-yard.
Farm Restaurant in Main Lodge
Family-style Southern, choices daily, Many sides. 14 to 6 yrs half price. 5 & unders free. Kids meals available. See Farm Restaurant here :: >
The Market-Deli & Tackle
Take-out meals and groceries at the Market, Deli & Tackle, down at our cross-roads. See Syria Corner Market here :; >
Seasonal Festivals
Heritage Fishing Day - in early April
Graves Mountain Music Festival - Roots & Branches -weekend after Memorial Day (delayed until 2022)
July 4th Celebration & Fireworks for the County
Peach Harvest Day - last Saturday in July
Bluegrass Jam Weekends
Apple Harvest - first 3 weekends in October
Library
There is a library and game room in Poplar Lodge on the 2nd floor front.
Game Room with Ping Pong
In the Main Lodge, ground floor, we have a game room with Ping Pong, games, puzzles, cards, and a nearby Keurig Coffee machine.
Gift Shop
The shop is on the ground floor of the Main Lodge, open for check in and check out times and during most days in season. Local goodies, our apple butter, apple sauce and preserves, artwork, games, toys, caps and T-shirts.