This South Carolina Hunting Retreat Boasts a 16-Bedroom Log Lodge, a Vintage Caboose, Volleyball Courts and a Climate-Controlled Teepee

Location: Ridge Spring, South Carolina

Price: $7.2 million

This quirky itemizing on a 457-acre tract in rural South Carolina, close to the Georgia border, gives a 16-bedroom old style log house, a climate-controlled teepee, ponds and streams, a classic practice caboose, a hearth tower, a windmill, searching infrastructure and a tetherball courtroom.

“You feel like you’re really in the country or in the middle of nowhere,” mentioned itemizing agent Allison Forehand, of Coldwell Banker Best Life Realty. “It’s very secluded in a rural location.”

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While fairly non-public, the house is “very convenient to a lot of airports, so it’s easily accessible for people who want to come in and out,” she mentioned. It’s half-hour to the airport in Augusta, Georgia, and one hour to the airport in Columbia, South Carolina.

Further, the Cummings Road house is “seven or eight minutes from Interstate 20,” she mentioned.

“It’s in a great country area with a lot of nice people who have been there for generations,” Forehand mentioned.

“It would be a fabulous property for a retreat or a great hunting lodge,” she mentioned. The house is being offered furnished.

The property has about 10 established searching places full with strategically positioned meals plots,  in keeping with the itemizing.

“It’s mainly deer, but also fox, rabbit and squirrels,” Forehand mentioned. “South Carolina draws a lot of deer hunters,” lots of whom come up from Florida.

The land has a “nice mix of pines and hardwood trees, which makes for a beautiful property,” she mentioned.

Overlooking a pond, the customized three-level lodge options twin entrance entrances, a “super-large dining room” with three large tables and a stone fire, and an “enormous great room” with excessive beamed ceilings and staircases at both finish, Forehand mentioned.

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“It’s like a hotel,” she mentioned. “There are even two kitchens in this house,” together with en-suite bedrooms on all three ranges.

There are so many bedrooms in the primary home as a result of the proprietor needed every of his grandchildren to have their very own, Forehand mentioned.

“He spent a lot of money on the teepee,” she mentioned. “He wanted it as a play area for his grandchildren. It has its own heating and air-conditioning system.”

Stats 

The 10,662-square-foot house has 16 bedrooms, 18 full bogs and two partial bogs. It stands on a 474-acre tract.

Amenities 



Amenities embody a primary lodge with two kitchens and a number of gathering areas; a climate-controlled teepee; a classic practice caboose; a hearth tower with panoramic views; a basic windmill; a log cabin/visitor cottage; a boathouse; a metallic store; a number of ponds; established searching places; a porte-cochère; and courts for basketball, volleyball and tetherball.

Neighborhood Notes 



From the property, it’s 20 minutes to downtown Aiken, South Carolina, a “very quaint town in a great country area,” Forehand mentioned. 

In the late nineteenth century, Aiken gained fame as a wintering spot for rich folks from the Northeast, she mentioned. “It’s a beautiful area with lots of preserved properties. It’s a very warm, welcoming place.”

It’s half-hour to Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the annual Masters Tournament. In reality, an organization rents all the property for its workers and company yearly for the event, she mentioned

Agent: Allison Forehand, Coldwell Banker Best Life Realty

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