Iconic Farm With Abundance Of Wildlife, Recreation & Facilities
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Summary
Property
- Type
- Farms, Recreational Land, Residential Land
- Road Frontage
- County Road
- Road Surface
- Pavement, Gravel, Dirt
- Fencing
- Low Fence, Partial
- Outbuildings
- Shop, Barn
Land Details
- Tillable
- Pond
- Pasture
- Hay
- Enrolled in Government Program
Utilities
| Electric: | Onsite |
| Natural gas: | Onsite |
| Water: | Onsite |
| Telephone: | Onsite |
Housing
Home
6BD / 1BA 3686± sqftHome
Features/Improvements
- Big Game
- Waterfowl
- Upland Game
- Creek/Spring
- Fish
- Small Game
- Livestock Facilities
- Water Control Structures
- Trail Network
- Internal Road System
Description
Rare opportunity to own an iconic family farm in a beautiful valley surrounded by picturesque mountains. This property is teeming with wildlife, recreational assets, and facilities. SycaMoore Meadows Farm is six miles south of Interstate 81 at Exit 60 and located just outside the small town of Rural Retreat. The property is easily identifiable by the ten-room yellow Queen Anne/Victorian home and the enormous red barn that sits adjacent to the home. The historic farmhouse has 6 spacious bedrooms, one full bathroom, hardwood floors, a fireplace, and a large covered porch. This property provides resources for varied enterprises including 150 highly productive tillable acres. More tillable acres are being reclaimed presently from previous Christmas tree operations. The farm has several miles of game inhabitable edges with scattered areas of available native and created wildlife food and even some acreage in CREP. Killinger Creek and the popular trout stream Cripple Creek converge on the property. Neighbors have harnessed the waters of Cripple Creek and created various commercial enterprises. SycaMoore Meadow’s contributions to Cripple Creek come from two native springs, one gushing out 2500 GPM of very cold water and the other puts out 500 GPM creating nutrient-rich waters used for trout farming. In earlier times, when the farm was a 300 head beef cattle operation, a two-inch water line was buried carrying water to ball type watering facilities and frost-proof hydrants spaced through most of this parcel. With water, food, and cover this farm holds deer, turkey, and small game year round making for great hunting. An established road and trail system make for easy access to the entire property. Other assets of this outstanding property include several outbuildings, such as spring house, brooder house, smokehouse, woodshed, tractor shed, large equipment storage facility, milking parlor, and a pole type hay or equipment storage facility. The house, barn, and four of the outbuildings were repaired and repainted in 2010 and more thoroughly done so again in 2019. Most of the house interior had high quality decorating done in 2019 also. Higher elevations of the farm provide long vistas of the surrounding mountains of Glade, Iron, and the majestic peaks of Mount Rogers and Whitetop. These nearby peaks are all in the Jefferson National Forest and help to constitute the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Fruit trees, Christmas trees, and a pond also dot the landscape of this magnificent farm. Don’t miss your chance to own a piece of Southwest Virginia history. Call me today to schedule a private showing.
The information contained herein is deemed reliable but is not warranted or guaranteed by the Broker, its Agents, or the Seller. Access to property, access to utilities, or any measurements including but not limited to, acreage, square footage, frontage, and mapping boundary lines shared herein has not been independently verified and is for purposes of marketing only. If exact measurements, access to property, or access to utilities is a concern, the property should be independently measured or investigated by the prospective buyer.
Buyer’s agents must be identified on the first contact with Broker/Agents and must accompany the buyer on showings to receive full fee participation. Otherwise, the fee participation will be at the sole discretion of the seller, broker, and Whitetail Properties Real Estate, LLC.
