朝食付きの5つ星宿泊施設、Roaring River Stateから1.6 km（5マイル）

I am a half native of this area called the Ozarks. My folks were from here, met here, married and moved on to live else where until they settled in Illinois, where I was born and raised. Ever since I was born this is where we came for family holidays, vacations and summers. When I was 9, in 1974, my folks build this little house I now call the Dogwood Cabin. So half my adolescents I lived in Illinois (during the school year) and half here on this property in the summers.

It was a cool place to spend my childhood summers . . . I fell in love with wild life and all it offers. City girl goes to the woods and becomes a country girl.

This beautiful wooded land I continue to call Deer Ridge. My father named it back when he acquired it in 1970, developing it into a family retreat. Now it continues as a retreat for you and others who wish to experience this small part of the Ozark Mountains.

This place holds many fond memories for me, as I spent most all summers here growing up. This is where I connected with nature, the trees, the birds, all the wild life . . . the peace and the quite. The simplistic way of spending an afternoon or evening. Back than in this area we did not have much service for TV, nor phones. We had to relay on our own imaginations and each other for entertainment.

When my folks were passing from this world, I began my dreaming of an old dream, that started in my early 20's . . . to one day have a bed and breakfast. I saw I had a reason, a way and means to finally make another dream a reality. I had a 'what to do' in this season of my life.

This property and this House among other sites I am developing here is a wonderful place for me to now call my home and my new vocation . . . hosting others as they retreat and unplug from their daily grind . . . getting back to nature and all it has to offer.

Feeling blessed I have been given a chance to come back to my childhood play ground and open it up for others.

I am not sure of the uniqueness of this property, unless you aren't use to being in the woods surrounded by trees and wild life. If you are from or live in the city, this place is very unique to you and your experiences perhaps.

I do not do much if anything to the land itself. There is no landscaping except what mother nature does. I think the beauty is in what grows and develops on its own. . . the wild flowers, native grasses if any, trees, mushrooms, ROCKS. Yes rocks LOL.. . after every rainfall there are more rocks unearthed. My father use say 'nothing grow faster or more abundantly here than ROCKS.. I keep the place as 'all natural' as I can yet maintained in a rustic sort of way.