Hilltop Cabin at Raven Ridge in North Carolina

Cozy Hilltop Cabin Overview

You'll fall in love with this hilltop cabin building located in Marshall, North Carolina. The cozy cabin building can accommodate up to 2 guests with one-bedrooms, 1 bed, and a half bath. During your vacation stay, you'll have the entire cabin building to yourself. The cabin vacation rental has 320 square feet of space and is located just 20 minutes from Asheville, and 7 minutes to the river town of Marshall. Guests love the cozy wood cabin for all of its character, the mountain views, and farm settings. The cabin building is perfect for couples or single travelers who are seeking minimalist simplicity. Dogs are welcome too. During your vacation stay, you can unplug in style while still being near major sights, while being surrounded by big open skies perfect for star gazing and enjoying sunrises and sunsets over the gardens and orchards.

Cabin Amenities and Layout

Guests to the cabin building enjoy its rustic elegance, in the cozy two-story cabin that sits on top of a hill that overlooks 2.5 acres that are covered in young fruit shrubs and nut trees. On the first floor of the wood cabin, there is a kitchen, a small dining area, and a porch. Upstairs there is a full-sized bed and a reading nook with mountain views. The kitchen is stocked with cookware, an electric burner, oil, spices, and a water heater for coffee or tea, a small fridge, and drinking water. The water system in the cabin building is rustic but works well. You can fill up your water from the spigot that is located nearby.

Facilities and Outdoor Features

The cabin building has an outhouse just a short walk away, but no shower or bath. In the cold weather, there is a space heater and a Turkish wood cookstove, the cabin building is tight and heats up easily in winter. There's a garden fence that doubles as a pet enclosure, so you can bring along your dog. There is a fire ring for nights outdoors by the fire and three miles of walking trails and steep trails around the neighborhood that the owners have developed. The owners are slowly building an outhouse and seasonal bathhouse close to the cabin building.

Guest Experiences and Recommendations

People have booked the wood cabin for romantic getaways, for personal writing and music retreats but mainly for because the cabin building is within awesome proximity to hiking and culture. Many guests come to the cabin building get a feel for staying in a tiny house and for the interesting array of plants. The cabin building is located a short walk up a hill on a wide grassy trail, so you'll want to be prepared in all weather conditions with good shoes. The owners provide flashlights in the wood cabin which you may use for walking to and from the driveway during your stay. Verizon is best for mobile phone service, so if you do not use Verizon, you'll want to be sure and plan to study the directions carefully, because you may not be able to call the owners for directions.