Set aside your hectic life for a moment and let us pamper you, where the pace is slower and the hospitality warm. Your visit to Oak Grove Plantation starts with a glass of lemonade or iced tea served leisurely on our front porch overlooking 400 acres full of Southern pines, oaks and teeming with wildlife…crickets, birds, frogs, box turtles and an occasional fox. After you are shown your room, you will be given a leisurely tour of the innkeeper’s ancestral home, including 48 solar panels and the electric car charger. After the tour, you will have plenty of time to see Civil War and Revolutionary War landmarks, car racing venues, antique shops, lakes and museums. In the evening, we’ll direct you to some of the area’s fine restaurants, not far from the Bed & Breakfast. After a refreshing night’s sleep in one of the three guest rooms, you’ll awaken to the smell of our specialties such as Cluster Springs Egg Puff, Lemon Souffle Pancakes, homemade biscuits or muffins and coffee or other delicious choices in the Victorian dining room, with the sun shining in through the full-length bay windows. Free parking and wi-fi.

Oak Grove Plantation has been occupied by my family since 1820. I enjoy telling visitors stories about the plantation’s past, its founding by Virginia legislator Thomas Easley, the impact of the Civil War, the heyday of tobacco growing and the farm’s conversion to pine trees in recent years. As an avid hiker, I have walked the C&O Canal in Washington, the Camino de Santiago in Spain and areas around San Francisco, but I find the hiking on our five miles of trails the best of all. I’d love to lead you on a hike. --Pickett Craddock

Rural area with rolling hills, open fields, forests on 400 acres, with a 3-mile round-trip birding trail. House is down a tree-lined 1/4-mile lane from the road. Good for hiking, biking, train watching, great for dogs and children. The town has museums, sculpture garden, a live theater and antiquing. It's within half hour of lake, wineries, restaurants and major auto racing at Virginia International Raceway and South Boston Speedway, Civil War site and historical tours.