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Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin

Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin

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Overview of Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin

9.6

Exceptional

Popular amenities

  • Pet-friendly
  • Fireplace
  • Kitchen
  • Mountain view

Explore the area

Black Mountain, NC
  • Popular LocationOle's Guacamoles4 min drive
  • Popular LocationLa Tapa Lounge4 min drive
  • Popular LocationBlack Mountain Bistro5 min drive
  • Popular LocationFresh Woodfired Pizza & Pasta5 min drive

Space details

4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, sleeps 7
Bedroom 1
    2 twin/single beds
Bedroom 2
    1 queen bed
Bedroom 3
    1 twin/single bed
Bedroom 4
    2 twin/single beds
Bathroom 1
    Bathtub
Bathroom 2
    Shower

About this property

Entire place

You'll have the entire home to yourself and will only share it with other guests in your party.

Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin

An historic old cottage built in 1914 is perfect for small groups (including youth groups) or families that want to be close to Lake Susan and the Montreat Conference Center. We continually try to make improvements while keeping the character of a 100 year old home. For example in 2015 we installed new floors in the kitchen and both baths that eliminate previous flaws and are easier to clean. In 2016 we enlarged the main bed with a new Queen size mattress and box spring and totally rewired to bring the electrical up modern specs and expectations.

The comfortable family room has a lovely wood burning stone fireplace and a dining table that easily seats 8. ( Please note that we do not provide sheets and towels.) The spacious covered porch extends across the front of the house and is the space most enjoyed by all. Listen to the night noises of a screech owl or cicada as you relax in the swing, glider or one of the rocking chairs.

Downstairs there is one bedroom with a queen bed and one with a single. The bathroom has a lovely old claw foot tub (no shower). The upstairs has two bedrooms – both pretty open with only curtains for doors. Two twin beds in each room. The upstairs bath is a full bath (shower only).

Wireless broadband internet provides connection to the outside world (if you desire it). Or relax playing old fashioned board or card games.

While we have the modern convenience of a high speed wireless internet connection, the cottage is rustic meaning, there is no AC, no heat, no washer, no dryer, no dishwasher and no TV. Most visitors take time to enjoy the beautiful mountains and eat many meals at the conference center or the many restaurants in Black Mountain only minutes away. Or head to Asheville and be there in around 20 minutes.

Kids enjoy foosball, hiking, rock hopping in the streams, playing basketball, tennis, softball or the Montreat clubs for kids. During the summer, enjoy throwing a pot on a potter's wheel at the Currie Craft Center/Sally Jones Pottery or take a paddle boat or canoe ride on Lake Susan. Montreat Conference Center hosts a variety of conferences for all ages sponsored by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Hear a sermon at Anderson Auditorium (0.76 mi) by one of America's finest preachers. Enjoy the beautiful small children’s play area with a slow moving stream in the middle (0.67 mi) between us and Lake Susan. Take wonderful hikes on the more than 20 clearly blazed trails lasting from 45 minutes to all day.

Black Mountain is a charming town, with mountain craft stores and restaurants only 2 miles from the Montreat gate.

The Baptist Retreat Center at Ridgecrest (only 4.5 miles) and many other camps and retreat centers are up and down the nearby Swannanoa Valley.

Asheville—a delightful mountain city with shopping and restaurants—is only 20 minutes away. There you can find America’s largest mansion, the magnificent Biltmore House Estate and vineyards and the Grove Park Inn and Resort (The President and his family spent a weekend vacation there over Memorial Day 2010 before visiting Billy Graham at the other end of Mississippi Road.) See live Shakespeare performed at the Asheville Center Stage or spend a lovely evening at their minor league baseball park.

Lake Lure is only 1 hour. Enjoy white water on either the French Broad or the Nanahala River. The entrance to the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway is 13 miles west and the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, Mt. Mitchell, is an hour’s drive or a day’s hike.

It is only 1.5 hours to the Historic Cherokee Village & Casino.

Bring your own linens including sheets, pillow cases, kitchen and bath towells. We provide plenty of regular blankets for cool evenings.

More detail:
General Description: Rustic family home built in 1914. Spring, Summer & Fall rentals only, great front porch with rocking chairs, good off street parking in two gravel driveways. NO SMOKING and NO PETS inside. Sleeps 7 adults comfortably. It is 0.4 miles from the gate; and 0.8 miles from Lake Susan. No clothes washer, no clothes dryer, no dishwasher, no TV, no air conditioning and no central heat. It does have wi-fi and a telephone.

Location: Our cottage is 2.5 miles or a 7-minute drive north of I-40 (the Black Mountain, State Route 9 exit) and a 0.8 or a 17-minute walk from Lake Susan and .4 miles from the Montreat Gate.

Directions: From I-40 take exit 64 for Black Mountain. If eastbound on I-40 turn left at the end of the exit ramp, going north on state route 9/Broadway Street. As you continue north, cross State Street/US 70, where Route 9 changes name to Montreat Road. (this intersection has Tyson's Furniture, Town Hardware and a small park.) If westbound the exit merges into State Street/US 70. Continue to a traffic light with a small park on your right and Tyson's Furniture and Towne Hardware on two of the other corners. Turn right onto State Route 9/Montreat Road. Continue on until you see the stone Montreat gate.

Just inside the Montreat Gate, there are two roads immediately on the left and very close to each other. Take the second one - Virginia Road - and proceed up the hill. At the first intersection turn right onto Mississippi Road. Our cottage is the 4th house on the left (including the one sitting up high on the corner), sitting behind a tall stand of shrubs and trees. The street number is clearly marked on the green bear proof trash container in front. You may use either driveway/parking space - one on each side of the trash container. There is a map on VRBO and our Facebook page. Our location can be found on Yahoo and Google maps.

Parking: There are 2 gravel driveways in which to park. There is also a parking area across the street that the neighbor does not mind our using if they are not there.

Telephone: The 181 Mississippi Road telephone number is (828) 669-9287. If you will be calling long distance or overseas, please use your cell phone.

Internet and cell phone. We have high speed wireless DSL service at the cottage. The access code and the router are in the downstairs queen bed room.
A new cell tower was installed in Montreat in 2010 and provides excellent cell phone service. Cell phone service from any major carrier should not be a problem.

Bring: Sheets, (1 queen bed and 5 single/twin sizes), pillowcases, towels, washcloths, dishtowels, food, alarm clock, flashlight, and electric blanket if desired (in Spring & Fall). There are two small portable electric heaters for your use. Pillows and blankets are furnished. Bring double sheets if anyone will be using the double bed on the screened in porch.

Bedrooms: Upstairs - 2 rooms, each with 2 twin beds (plus full bath, shower only); Downstairs - 2 rooms, one with 1queen bed, one with 1 twin bed (plus full bath, tub only); and a screened porch with a double bed. Remember this is an old, small cottage. We think it is charming, but compared to the new houses being built at Montreat and the typical beach condo, definitely small and old fashioned. The downstairs single bed room and the back bedroom upstairs are especially small. The rooms upstairs only have curtains, no doors. One is private but one is open to the stairwell. (The bathrooms of course have doors.) The screened porch which has a double bed is not particularly private, but many enjoy the openness of a sleep porch. The sides are wood and waist high and 2 of the 3 screened sides have blinds.

Kitchen: The kitchen has a four burner gas stove with full size oven. There is also a microwave, toaster oven, coffee maker, toaster, tea kettle and many pots, pans, dishes and glassware. Silverware, placemats and extra dishes are in the sideboard in the living/dining area beside the door to the kitchen. There is a full size refrigerator on the screen porch. Sometimes tenants are concerned about whether the oven works or not. It does, but seems to come on slowly. The bottom surface lifts out if you want to see the burners or check the pilot.

Garbage, trash and recycling: Household garbage and recyclables are picked up Monday & Friday. Please put out the trash in securely tied plastic bags and put inside the trash inside the approved bear-proof container. Place clean recyclables such as plastic, glass, paper and aluminum in transparent or blue bags outside the bear-proof container. Recyclables do not have to be separated. Garbage & Recycling information is tacked to the kitchen back door.

Fireplace: You are welcome to use the fireplace, if you clean it thoroughly afterwards.

Portable Heater: There are three portable electric heaters available. The Cottage was rewired in 2016 so if the heaters are on separate circuits they should not “blow a fuse” or trip a circuit breaker.

Fans: There are two portable box fans and a round rotating fan to place where they are most helpful to you. There are small exhaust fans that can be placed in the upstairs bathroom and the upstairs bedroom. There is also a small fan in the kitchen over the sink that will need to be plugged in to be used.

Circuit Breaker: The house was completely rewired up to current code requirements in 2016 and every circuit is 20 amps. But if you need access to the circuit breaker, it is on the outside wall of the first bedroom on the right when you enter the front door. The use of multiple heaters, hair dryers etc. should not trip a circuit breaker. But it can if too many heaters and other items are on the same circuit. Before resetting the circuit breaker move one of the items to another circuit.

Fire Safety: Fire safety rules require you to use a power strip rather than an extension cord. Therefore, please don’t plug in anything unless plugged directly into a wall socket or a power strip. Do not use extension cords. There are several power strips plugged in around the cottage. (Power strips are the plugs most of us have for our computers.)

Property manager

Marion McClure

Languages

English

Property amenities

Pool/Spa

  • Communal pool

Internet

  • Available in the house: WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Parking on site

Kitchen

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Cookware, dishware, and utensils
  • Microwave
  • Oven
  • Refrigerator
  • Stovetop

Bedrooms

  • 4 bedrooms

Bathroom

  • 2 bathrooms
  • Hair dryer
  • Shower only

Living spaces

  • Fireplace

Laundry

  • Laundromat nearby

Pets

  • Pet friendly
  • Welcoming dogs only
  • One pet total (up to 50 lbs per pet)

Suitability/Accessibility

  • Gravel flooring in public areas
  • Smoke-free property

Services and conveniences

  • Iron/ironing board

Location highlights

  • Near a hospital

Things to do

  • Tennis
  • Cycling nearby
  • Fishing nearby
  • Golfing nearby
  • Hiking/biking trails nearby
  • Kayaking nearby
  • Motor boating nearby
  • Mountain climbing nearby
  • Swimming nearby
  • Water tubing nearby

Safety features

  • Deadbolt lock
  • Fire extinguisher
  • First aid kit
  • Smoke detector

General

  • 1 unit

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Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 4:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 25

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

You will receive an email from the host with check-in and check-out instructions

Pets

Pets allowed
Service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees
Welcoming dogs only
1 total (up to 50 lbs per pet)
Restrictions apply; for more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
Note from host: Must be crated

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
Onsite parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a first aid kit, and a deadbolt lock
This property is managed through our partner, Vrbo. You will receive an email from Vrbo with a link to a Vrbo account, where you can change or cancel your reservation

Property is also known as

Rustic Mountain Joy 1914 Cabin House
Rustic Joy 1914 Cabin House
Rustic Mountain Joy 1914 Cabin
Rustic Joy 1914 Cabin
Rustic Mountain Joy In 1914
Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin Montreat
Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin Private vacation home
Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin Private vacation home Montreat

About the area

Montreat

This vacation home is located in Montreat. Black Mountain Golf Club and Hop'n Blueberry Farm are worth checking out if an activity is on the agenda, while those looking for area attractions can visit Ten Thousand Villages and The Merry Wine Market. Old Fort Railroad Museum and Western North Carolina Nature Center are also worth visiting. Kayaking and water tubing offer great chances to get out on the surrounding water, or you can seek out an adventure with cycling and mountain climbing nearby.

What's nearby

  • Black Mountain Center for the Arts - 4 min drive
  • Lake Tomahawk - 5 min drive
  • Black Mountain Golf Club - 6 min drive
  • Hop'n Blueberry Farm - 11 min drive
  • Catawba Falls - 20 min drive

Getting around

  • Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) - 34 min drive

Restaurants

  • Starbucks - 6 min drive
  • McDonald's - 7 min drive
  • Wendy's - 7 min drive
  • Foothills Grange - 5 min drive
  • Starbucks - 6 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin pet-friendly?

Yes, this property allows dogs (limit 1 total) with a maximum weight of up to 50 lbs per pet.

What time is check-in at Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin?

Check-out is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Rustic Mountain Joy in 1914 Cabin located?

Situated in Montreat, this vacation home is within 1 mi (2 km) of Robert Lake Park and Ten Thousand Villages. The Merry Wine Market and White Horse Black Mountain are also within 3 mi (5 km).

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 55 out of 64 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 6 out of 64 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 3 out of 64 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 64 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 64 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

6.0/10

Amenities

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Judy R.

Liked: Cleanliness
Priced Right
If you don’t mind a rustic house (hunting camp) you will enjoy your stay for the price. Close to Black Mountain and One of the best places to eat was the Blue Ridge Biscuit.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Barrett E.

Liked: Cleanliness
Perfect weekend getaway
We stayed from Saturday to Monday for my daughter’s 17th birthday. The cabin was so cute. It was a chilly weekend so the fireplace was put to good use. The axe was broken but we were able to find enough wood around the back yard. We hiked, hopped rocks in the creek, and enjoyed the local restaurants and shopping in Black Mountain. The location was perfectly close to everything we needed. We would definitely stay in the cabin again.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jordan N.

Liked: Cleanliness
Family Getaway
My family and I had a wonderful stay at this cabin. It was nice to relax and disconnect for a few days. Location was great for a short drive into Black Mountain for shopping and food. It was fun to step back into time a little with this home. We hope to return again in the future!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michael A.

Liked: Cleanliness
Great getaway!
Peaceful and relaxing! Great weekend. Great host. Thanks for the help when we needed it!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Virginia C.

Liked: Cleanliness
Bit of Heaven
Montreat community is special. After visiting there for fifty years it is a tradition for all of my grown children and grands. A few of us went this week and enjoyed it immensely. Porch sitting in Montreat is a favorite pastime.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

William H.

Liked: Cleanliness
Great Montreat Spot
Great location and pirch.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

John S., North Carolina, United States

Liked: Cleanliness
Authentic Mountain Cabin
So fun to get away and feel like you're in another world, not just a typical condo or suburban house. We love the authentic old-fashioned vibe of this cabin!
Stayed 8 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Bethany R.

Liked: Cleanliness
Great escape, as usual!
Love this property with its peacefulness and simplicity.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

EDITH H., Cartersville

Liked: Cleanliness
Montreat Cabin
Lovely stay. What a great place to spend time with our son and grandson! Thank you for offering your cabin for rental.
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Gabi E., Charlotte, NC

Liked: Cleanliness
Back again
Back for a second time and had a lovely visit.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2023