The Outpost: A Rustic Respite in the Shenandoah Valley

This was the perfect getaway for my friend's bachelorette. We were looking for a cozy girls' weekend to play games, make friendship bracelets, spend time outdoors, and make memories as a collective. This house and location was exactly the place to make that dream come true!

Great environment, lots to do within the area. Check in process is very convenient. Every room feels like a new adventure.

The best thing about this property was the interior, i.e., the size and the beautiful, tasteful, unique interior decorations and layout. The spacious back deck lighting was also a huge bonus! The motion sensor lights in the bedroom(s) were a buzzkill when trying to sleep. There should be an override for that and/or instructions on how to deactivate that "feature". There were cameras with scotch tape over them which wasn't awful, but just weird. The outside has much room for improvement. The lawn appeared not to have been mowed in over a month . . . the grass all around the house was almost to our knees which did not bode well for the lawn games we brought, i.e., cornhole, ring toss, etc. The back deck pictured in the listing was beautiful . . . some years ago, but in reality today the deck has not been cared for since. The signage on the property and the different sections was broken or missing. As the time grew closer we made multiple attempts to contact the host for more intricate information on the layout as we sought to find out the best way for a wheelchair-bound guest to visit us on the back deck. We never got an answer, but we figured it out ourselves upon arrival.

The deck was missing boards and clearly currently under repair. There were no t.v.'s present...in any room, no radios, one clock with the incorrect time. The pool table was a nice bonus right up to the point where NONE of the pool ques had any tip on them so that just led to marathon-length games but, at least we had something to occupy us. The decorating and over-all theme has real potential but, she's not there yet and it felt quite like living in the twenties. There are most assuredly a number of fixtures and so forth of the period which I thought were cool. I did totally dig the human behavior 101 book published in 1974 whose opening thoughts were that we'd all likely be in full famine or have died from nuclear holocaust by the year 2000. I guess I felt like I had cheated death and gotten some sense of satisfaction from it. I suppose if there HAD been a tv, I wouldn't have read it. There was a large motorhome in the driveway that looked expensive. I kinda wished we had opted for that with the thought that it might feel a bit more 2026ish.