This house had an amazingly beautiful view of the mountains! I enjoyed watching the sunset from the porch nearly every night. It was awesome watching the sun disappear behind the mountains and the colors in the sky that followed were breathtaking.
We stayed for a week. We’re a family of 6 (Mom, Dad, 3 teenagers, and a 1 year old) all of us enjoyed this home. The wildlife sittings were fun as well (deer, turkey, groundhogs).
As far as sleeping arrangements…the older kids stayed downstairs and the little guy stayed in the loft with mom and dad. As mentioned in another review…you can hear everything up in the loft. Once the little guy fell asleep, the tv was put on closed captioning and the older kids had to hang out in a room or on the porch. Cooking and doing dishes was another process that needed special care because the sound carried into the loft (this is completely expected and it wouldn’t be an issue if we didn’t have a one year old).
For those of you with a little person, there are baby gates, but I think they’ve mostly been used as dog gates. They do the job, but not the cleanest and not the sturdiest… we used one at the top of the stairs of the loft and the other at the top of the stairs on the porch (we had to use two chairs in front of the one on the porch so the little guy wouldn’t knock it over.
There are some really cool trails and an awesome lake about 30 minutes from the house (Fires Creek and Hanging Dog are the ones we visited). The south end of the Blue Ridge parkway was about 1.5hrs away…not a bad drive, but the obviously the further north you drive the longer it takes you to get back home.
The house was stocked with pretty much everything we needed. The grill was an added convenience. We cooked breakfast and dinner at the house every day and we had all of the pots/pans necessary. There was plenty of linens for all of us too. The only thing I can gripe about was the amount of dog/cat hair present. I spent the first night trying my best to de-hair the blankets, chairs, carpet and under the furniture …it could have just been that there was a very fluffy dog that stayed there before us.
All-in-all this was a great place to stay and we really enjoyed ourselves.