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.  

Property Features:

- Previously SycaMoore Meadows Christmas Tree Farm. ??

- Historic 6 bedroom 1 bathroom Queen Anne/Victorian farmhouse. ??

- Large spacious home with hardwood floors, large covered porch, and fireplace. ??

- Abundance of wildlife, recreational assets, and facilities. ?

- Easy access to the entire property via road and trail system. ??

- Farm water supplied by 2 natural springs. ?

- Over 3000 ft of prime trout fishing frontage on Cripple Creek. ? ?

- Cripple Creek converges with springs creating nutrient rich water used for trout farming. ???

- 150 +/- tillable acres with more currently being reclaimed from previous Christmas tree operations. ?

- Food, water, and cover attract and hold wildlife on this property year round. ? ??

- Tractor shed, large equipment storage facility, and pole type hay or equipment storage facility. ??

- Large barn, garage, dairy parlor, spring house, brooder house, and smoke house. ?

- Fruit trees, Christmas trees, pond, and livestock waterers. ???

- Incredible views of the Jefferson National Forest and surrounding countryside. ???