Overview

Your group can visit for the day, stay overnight, or for an extended stay in the cozy lodge. The lodge is ideal for friends vacationing together, family reunions, church and business retreats, school groups, honeymooners, and artists of all sorts.

Rockcliffe Farm Retreat & Lodge is easily accessible (within 30 minutes) from the Town of Appomattox and the City of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Fishing at Rockcliffe Farm Retreat is great. The fish abundant, the types of river terrain vary, the water clarity excellent much of the year, and access is good. First time fishermen or pro will find plenty of excitement. If you have never fished before, a summer day on the James will hook you for a lifetime of fun!

Guests often snorkel to find the hideouts in the clear, warm, summer waters, or take a timeout at "Jacuzzi Falls" after a tough day of landing smallmouths.

Come Relax!

• Spend all day reading in the hammock.
• Sunbathe on the deck (seasonal).
• Hike down to the stream below the lodge, or go hiking around the property (maps provided).
• Paint some landscapes or horse portraits.
• Write poetry.
• Take photos of wildflowers (May's the best), or the river, the woods, your friends, the horses, and the very photogenic geese, ducks, and guinea hens.
• Collect pretty feathers to take home which the guineas and geese have shed.
• Do some gourmet cooking using fresh herbs growing at the lodge and at the farm.
• Challenge Hugh to a bread baking contest.
• Have s'mores under the stars in one of the two fire pits.
• Play horseshoes, shoot baskets, do soccer drills in the field.
• Have ping pong, dart, and fuse ball tournaments.
• Go swimming or fishing in the James River, or just sit and watch the herons and bald eagles that live there.
• Go swimming, fishing, or practice paddling a canoe in the farm pond, or just sit by the pond and watch the geese, ducks and guinea hens doing their daily activities (eating, playing, chasing each other).
• Take a picnic down to the picnic/campsite at the river, or to one of the many picnic tables in the woods and along the streams (there's one just below the lodge).
• Look for arrowheads and Stone Age tools on property.
• Come over to the farm side and brush horses.
• Find out current feeding times and you can help feed the horses and put "the birds" to bed in the evening.
• Jam with your musician buddies on the elevated deck, overlooking the woods and Blue Ridge Mountains, or down at the James River.
• Get ready for your upcoming half-marathon on hilly trails, or your marathon on the gorgeous Appomattox County roads.
• Bring your sweetheart to the lodge for a romantic weekend, and have your meals all catered. Bring romantic movies to watch, play ping pong and let them win. Wade in the stream below the Lodge. Cuddle together on the hammock and listen to the birds and breeze.
• Ride your touring bicycles around the beautiful country roads in the area.
• Take a short or long (six-hour) canoe float to the river frontage (leave from Joshua Falls outside of Lynchburg) or from the river frontage (three to five hours to Bent Creek, 15 to James River State Park). (Additional Portage Fee)
• Go swimming, fishing, canoeing off the river frontage (a staff favorite).

The mission at Rockcliffe Farm is to preserve their property from development, retain as much contiguous forest as possible, and provide a location for everyone to enjoy the quiet joys that can only be experienced by being in the woods.

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