Walk to Old Rag | Hot Tub | Mountain Farmhouse

A beautifully renovated farmhouse just steps from the Old Rag trailhead. Thoughtfully prepared so it’s easy to cook, relax, and spend time together — with space to spread out, mountain views, and a hot tub to unwind after a day outdoors. If you’re traveling with more people, we also have another home right next door. The space Our house is on the road to the Old Rag trailhead. It's a short walk to the Old Rag parking lots, and a few minutes farther to the trailhead, so you can start your Old Rag trek bright and early! It's also a short walk to the Hughes River, known for trout fishing, and to other hiking trails. You will have plenty of space to relax with your family and friends. The house has four bedrooms, a dining area, a large living room, a wood-burning stove in the family room, and two and a half fully renovated bathrooms. The property is in the area known as Nethers, with a Sperryville address, and is a 15 minute drive to the historic town of Sperryville itself. From there you can head to the Skyline Drive, Luray, and the Shenandoah River for water activities. We're also less than a half an hour by car to the White Oak Canyon trail lower parking lot. Wineries and breweries are also just a few minutes away. About the house The house is about 2500 sq ft., and we renovated it in 2021. You can see surrounding mountains from almost all its rooms, and in most rooms old logs adorn the walls. There is an office and sitting space as you enter, with a desk, chairs and couch. From there you can go straight ahead to a large living room, with an L shaped couch and armchairs, where you can relax and talk after a day spent outdoors, or use the 65 inch flat screen TV to stream your favorite shows. From the living room you can enter an open kitchen/dining area, with a large table that can accommodate up to 10 people. Since this is our second home and we love to cook, we like to keep a well-stocked kitchen. You will find a large assortment of kitchen items: From cast iron cookware, to pots and steamers and non stick pans, to baking utensils such as hand mixers, baking sheets, rolling pins, muffin pans both big and small, to silicone pads, to other utensils such as knives, microplane graters and glass containers, to serving and salad bowls. There are also mugs, plates, bowls, barware, and flatware. We also provide some kitchen essentials, including salt, pepper, a variety of spices and rubs, Spanish extra virgin olive oil, Italian Modena vinegar, baking soda, ground Colombian coffee, organic sugar, Nesquik chocolate flavoring, and an assortment of black and herbal teas. We also provide an electric and a stove kettle, a moka coffee maker, an electric coffee maker that does not need paper filters, table mats, paper towels, sponge, dishwasher and dish detergent, baking paper and aluminum foil. We do not provide ziplock bags as we are trying to minimize plastic. Off the kitchen you find the half bath renovated last year, with a Mexican Talavera sink and an antique dresser that has been reconverted as a vanity. On the first floor, between the kitchen and entry/office room, there is also a family room with sofa, where you can cozy up to the wood burning stove, play board games, or read. We provide a revolving assortment of board games: you can refer to the picture in the platform to get an idea of what you may encounter. The games are on wooden shelves made from salvaged beams. The shelves also host a printer, which you can use if you need to; we try to leave paper, but please plan ahead in case it has run out, or there is not enough for your needs. We can provide firewood upon prior request, for a fee, and you can use it for the stove, or for the fire pit outside (weather permitting) should you decide to pick up some sticks and make s’mores or toast marshmallows. Upstairs you will find four bedrooms and two bathrooms. All the bedrooms have mirrors in them, and all have mountain views from at least one of the windows. In the hallway you will find the washer and dryer. We provide laundry supplies should you need to wash your clothes. Turning right at the top of the stairs, you will find a king bedroom, with a cedar lane chest and antique set of drawers. Also to the right is a smaller bedroom with a queen bed and an antique chest dating to the Spanish Civil War. To the left of the stairs you find the two bathrooms and the additional two bedrooms. Both bathrooms were renovated in 2021. One has an antique claw foot bathtub, in which you can relax after a long hike, and which also has a shower. An antique blue dresser next to it serves as a vanity. The second bathroom has a cheerful Spanish ceramic tile floor, with a glass enclosed shower and Grohe shower head. An antique sewing machine table has been repurposed as the vanity. Off the hallway with the bathrooms, you find the two remaining bedrooms at either end. The master bedroom has large picture windows, with black out curtains and a king tempurpedic mattress. The second bedroom has both a queen and a full size bed. If you need to work, it also has a small desk that you can open and use as a table for your laptop. Outside the kitchen there is a large dining table with eight chairs on a raised deck, and a Weber grill (we provide tongs for the grill and utensils to scrape it). From the deck you can see the mountains, usually the neighbors’ cows and sheep, and sometimes a llama. For stargazing, it gets pretty dark in the area, with almost no lights in the hills and very few street lights around. There is plenty of space for outdoor family activities. If you would like to spend time in the yard, we have outdoor games that we keep in the barn, including table tennis, corn hole toss, croquet, a soccer goal, and bocce. Outside we also have a soccer goal, a swing set, a slack line between two trees, a small swing set, and two hammocks. If you have a larger party you may want to rent as well our adjacent property; find it under airbnb.com/h/oldragfoothills. We can accommodate up to 20 guests between both houses. We hope you will enjoy the farm as much as we do! Guest access Other things to note: *We have Starlink satellite Internet, which is fast enough stream HD movies and allow for teleconferences. The connection, however, does occasionally cut out, especially in bad weather. If the Internet does cut out for more than a few minutes please contact us. Please do not reset it, as the system will then need to be reconfigured, and we will need to send a technician who may not be available right away. *There is very limited cell phone reception in the area. Please plan accordingly. There are occasional power outages in the area, which can happen in bad weather, from trees downing lines, and from equipment failures. The local power cooperative works to minimize and manage outages, and most such outages last only a few hours. *There are no surveillance devices that make audio or video recordings. The house systems may provide information on entry, door openings, temperature settings, wifi connectivity, power outages, smoke, fire, and water issues.