The healthy air revives you as you approach Oak Grove down its sienna-colored lane, lined with loblolly pines. The air is alive with the sound of country.. .crickets, frogs, cicadas and birds. Visitors enjoy sipping cool lemonade and iced tea on the front porch on a lazy summer day.
That was the scene that greeted visitors to this antebellum home in the 1820s. Today, nearly 180 years later, the same family can welcome you with Southern hospitality this summer.
The choice is yours. You can stay near the plantation house for wildflower walks, reading, birding, bike riding and hiking over 400 acres, a house tour, a neighborhood tour or a reiki session...
Or you can see the many sights of Southside Virginia...
From Cluster Springs, South Boston is 6 miles north, Durham 55 miles south, Danville 30 miles west and Buggs Island Lake 30 miles west.
Our gourmet breakfast is served family style in the Victorian dining room, sun shining in through the bay windows. Entrees may include Cluster Spring egg puff, lemon souffle pancakes or other specialties, served with locally grown fruits, coffee, and homemade biscuits or muffins.
Dogs especially love Oak Grove Plantation. Our grounds are perfect for frolicking and working off energy. Walk with them off-leash or pay us to walk them on our wide-open spaces of fields, trails, woods and streams. You can also play with them on-leash in the beautiful yards surrounding the plantation house.
Bicyclists will enjoy the lightly trafficked roads and gently rolling landscape near Oak Grove. Glide down the path from the inn to a beautiful journey of any length you desire. Ride for hours on country byways, stopping at a friendly general store for light refreshments and conversation. We'll provide maps and bicycles if you need them. Mountain bikers will enjoy the paths on the farm.
Those who travel with
horses may board them at a nearby farm's stable. ($20 per horse per night) There are riding trails in a local State Park.
Inn to Inn Biking in Southside Virginia Across the country, inn to inn bicycling is becoming a popular way to sightsee through the countryside during the day and sleep in luxury at night. Now, four Southside Virginia bed & breakfasts have found a way to offer their own package, giving riders more flexibility and lower prices than they get from most touring companies. Guests are offered their choices of a former tobacco plantation, a former coach tavern, a country home or an elegant 20th century colonial home. What all destinations have in common are comfort, charm, friendliness and gourmet cuisine.
Bicycle riders will meander at their own pace along former coach roads in Halifax County, one of the most sparsely populated parts of Virginia. Less than two hours from Norfolk and Richmond, the roads amble along the rolling Piedmont hills, past ever-changing farmland, historic towns and a local museum. Innkeepers have mapped out routes for self-guided tours with flexible daily ride distances of 16 to 58 miles per day or more. The inns offer confirmed reservations at all inns, luggage transport inn to inn, transport back to original inn to pick up car, maps and custom tour flexibility.
Tours start at $125 per day per person, including breakfasts and a picnic lunch. Riders can call 434-575-7137 for guided maps and help in selecting inns, depending on how far they want to ride each day. The choices are:
Oak Grove Plantation, Cluster Springs. Soothing, hands-on reiki treatment is offered by the innkeeper. (434-575-7137) www.oakgroveplantation.com
Breezy Oaks, Alton,. For tired bike riders, massages are offered by the Songlow Clinic, on site. (434-822-5841) www.innvirginia.cominnpage.php/?memlD=256
Tacrea House, Elmo,. (434-753-2510) www.cstone.net/~tacrea .
Cage's Bed & Breakfast, Halifax. (877-754-2252).
Rejuvenate Yourself with a Woman's Retreat If you are tired, grumpy, worn-out-change your life with a woman's retreat at Oak Grove. Plantation.....(more)
Go Green at Oak Grove Join with us in helping to reduce our country's carbon footprint.....(more)
Midweek Dog Special Stay 2 nights(midweek) and we'll dog sit while you go out to dinner and take your dog for a walk the next morning.....(more)
Trains, trains, trains! Put on your engineer?s hat and watch coal trains from a wooden humpback bridge and take your trainman?s lunch with you.....(more)
Our three guest rooms are large with sitting areas. On the second floor is the federalist Blue Room pictured with a lacy canopy bed (double) and wood burning fireplace. Across the hall is the Green Room with an antique quilt on the wall and handmade rug on the floor (twin beds). These rooms, are $90 each with a private bath. For $140 you can have the entire top-floor family suite and private bath with balcony and a beautiful view of the 400-acre grounds. On the first floor is the Office with its bookcases, oak desk and brass double bed. It has a private bath and is handicapped accessible ($90).
Oak Grove Plantation Bed & Breakfast
1245 Cluster Springs Road
South Boston, Virginia 24592 (434) 575-7137 Toll Free: (877) 343-7871
email:
Pickett Craddock, Innkeeper
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