{"id":30938,"date":"2017-09-26T22:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T02:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/?p=30938"},"modified":"2017-09-27T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:26:52","slug":"capon-springs-and-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/capon-springs-and-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Capon Springs and Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Still further south, just before you hit the Virginia state line, lies the 4,700-acre Capon Springs and Farms.<\/a> This unpretentious resort supplants simple pleasures for expensive amenities, offers all-inclusive privileges operated on the honor-system and still places value on communal daily flag raising and lowering ceremonies.<\/p>\n

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Begun 85 years ago, Lou and Virginia Austin bought an abandoned resort for the healing waters of Capon Springs. Since then, four generations of family have continued to maintain and improve the resort, all the while maintaining almost a secretive, word-of-mouth diversion for friends and friends of friends.<\/p>\n

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Operated more as a camp, than as a resort, meals are served at fixed times with a set weekly menu. While special dietary needs can be accommodated, typically everyone shares the same entr\u00e9e selections at each meal. Served family style, you\u2019ll never go hungry.<\/p>\n

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All meals are served in the dining room of the main house, save for three special meals each week served up the hill in the Sunset Lodge overlooking the golf course. The night we were there, we were entertained by the fantastic Dunlap brothers, playing bluegrass and modern tunes on their guitars, fiddles and mandolins.<\/p>\n

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Capon Springs offers a regulation 9-hole golf course and a par-3 course. Electric carts are available as well as lessons from the local pro. They also feature Hickory Golf (with the traditional wood shafts) as well as todays latest sensation, Fling Golf.<\/p>\n

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Down the hill, as you enter the property, you\u2019ll pass yet another family favorite \u2013 Disk Golf, played with Frisbees. Scattered across the resort, you can also find horseshoes, croquet, tennis, volleyball, basketball, badminton, shuffleboard, cornhole, pickleball and two houses dedicated solely to ping pong.<\/p>\n

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Another large building has rooms especially for playing cards, games, and puzzles. There\u2019s a library on the third floor of the main house. On the first floor, a roaring fire helps warm the body on cool mornings or evenings.<\/p>\n

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There is a good-sized pond with old-fashioned sticks and bait for fishing.\u00a0 A large swimming pool is outside, but unheated. Hiking abounds with many trails for varying lengths and abilities.<\/p>\n

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