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Activities to consider during your stay with us

- Luray Caverns, largest series of Caverns in the Eastern USA, open every day of the year. Tours start about every 20 minutes. Admission includes Caverns tour, Car Museum, Luray Valley Museum, Labyrinth

- Shenandoah National Park (SNP) with Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail (AT). A 105 mile drive between Front Royal and Waynesboro along the Ridge line of this easternmost of the ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has over 500 Miles of hiking trails of different levels of strenousness and length.

Fall in the Shenandoah Valley

Lots of buzz is about fall in Shenandoah National Park and in The Valley. And it is pretty! It is hard to tell when is the peak. In our first few years of running the Inn middle of October was best. Last year it was really right around Halloween and even after, when we all thought the pretty fall leaf colors had skipped us one year. This summer was extremely and unusually wet. So what will that do to the brilliant leaf colors? We will see! They are not here now. Hopefully it will be later in the month like last year. Nature will just simply not be controlled by us ever, will it?

Fall activities in the Shenandoah Valley

Hello there guests!

Here are a few things listed to wet your appetite for a visit to the South Court Inn this fall.

Sept. 15 Apple Butter Festival in Shenandoah National Park.

Sept. 22 Free Admission to Shenandoah National Park. Save the $25 admission fee!

Sept. 28 Opening Day of Darkwood Manor, Luray’s Award winning Haunted House

Sept. 29 Opening Day of Valley Star Farm’s Pumpkin Patch. Over 30 Kinds of pumpkins, squash and gourds. Corn Maze. Weekend Hayrides.

Downtown Luray Detour

As of last week our downtown bridge over Hawksbill Creek on Main Street is closed!

The bridge reconstruction will take the remainder of the year 2018. Hopefully this time will not have to be extended.

For our guests it’s easy to get around this by turning left on Mechanic Street right when you enter Luray and then take a left on Bank Street or just follow the detour signs posted.

Inn with a view

Have you ever owned a house with a view?

Well, we purchased an Inn with a view of Shenandoah National Park from our front porch! It’s stunning. I don’t think I can ever go back to not having a home with a view. It is so tranquil, so relaxing. And the views abound here in the Shenandoah Valley. Even during my trips to Harrisonburg to do our errands I am lucky enough to enjoy a ride with beautiful scenery, that is bound to relax me on my ride into the civilization of the next big town. We don’t even have traffic!

Mother’s Day at the Inn

We are all part of our home community. So are we, the South Court Inn. As members of a concerned community we attempt to do our part in the betterment of our town and county by supporting Choices, the local abused women’s shelter.

The State of the American Breakfast

I hold this truth to be self evident about breakfast that it is the most important meal of the day.

Simultaneously I had to learn incredulously this distressing truth: Breakfast is not part of every day in every person’s life. Not nearly everyone takes the time to start the day in a lower gear permitting time for a cup of coffee or tea, a fresh baked muffin or granola the newspaper or a chat withtheir kids to get them off to a good start in their job, school and at the same the same time fortifying oneself for a good day to brave the big world out there.

Making improvements during our down time! Radiant heat in two baths!

This winter we chose to completely remodel the baths of the Turquoise Room downstairs and the Gold Room upstairs. In a quest to continuously improve our guests stay with us we decided that modern bathrooms would be great bonus. Even though the Inn is an old house, built in 1875, and the bedrooms reflect the character of that long bygone era, bathrooms are much more desirable when they are state of the art.

Underappreciated spring in the Shenandoah Valley

Spring does not bring nearly as many guests to the Shenandoah Valley as fall does. So last year I really paid attention to the arrival of spring in the Shenandoah Valley, because it happened two weeks earlier than prior years. In the very first days of April the redbud trees growing wild along our roads started blooming. Years before that it happened in the middle of April.

Summer Has Come to Shenandoah Valley

And I have come up with some new items. Can you believe that Rhubarb Banana Jam is very yummy? Or that you can make your own lip balm? Or your own gentle laundry detergent?

Berry season is in full swing and makes for a color explosion on the breakfast table.

Shenandoah National Park waits with its wonderful hikes after a filling breakfast at the Inn.

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Fondly, your Innkeeper Adelheid

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