Writers Refuge sets out to work on you immediately. Come in and pick any one of the four bedrooms, each with a spectacular wooded view of the seasonal forest. Pop in your favorite CD, and then settle in to a comfy sofa, and let your gaze settle on a picture window overlooking the adjacent mountain and pond below.
Move outside and you might take one of the two hiking trails (one launches from the front, the other in back) to see what show Western Maryland’s wildlife has decided to put on for you today.
In the summer, Deep Creek Lake is just minutes away. WISP Resort is two miles away, offering an award-winning 18-hole golf course, mountain biking, a paint ball course and a roller blade and skate board course. The resort is operating its ski chair lift in the summer for mountain bikes and hikers.
No fewer than six state and national parks are within a five-mile radius and provide idyllic settings for hiking and swimming. And if you haven’t seen Muddy Falls in Swallow Park, check out Maryland’s largest and most majestic waterfall.
Then come home, relax in the outdoor hot tub, and enjoy the company of family and friends while nature’s dusky beauty holds you to its breast. Look up through the branches that engulf you and see the stars as they were meant to be seen…in their full and uncluttered splendor.
