If you’ve fried in July’s cauldron of 100F days, if you are frizzled at the gills from humidity AND the heat, if you can’t face another weekend in the city, well then,  you need to head for Luray, Virginia and the Shenandoah River!  We, of course, hope you will decide to stay at South Court Inn and make us your home base for fun on the river.  The river is only 9 miles from Luray if you have your own boat and outfitters only a bit further.

What you’ll find is a host of businesses and activities just waiting to put you in a canoe or kayak, on a tube or boat deck or something else entirely.

New this year for example, did you know that we have a company offering leisure cruises on the Shenandoay River?  Well, we do.  It is Shenandoah River Cruises and they are offering sightseeing and wine tasting cruises, as well as specially themed  and private cruises like birthday and anniversary celebrations.  They are new and we’re hearing good things about them, so check out their web site.  BTW, you really do need to heed their suggestion that your book cruises for the fall color season long before October arrives!

Here are links to and a few comments about some of our favorite outfitters… you know, the folks that rent you a canoe for the day or put you on the river for several days.  Click each of the links here and you’ll get a web site to help you find somebody that specializes in just what you want:

Shenandoah River Outfitters is celebrating 40 years in the business and has a discount coupon for your to print right from their web site.  Nancy and her folks know the river and business backwards and forwards and keep folks coming back year after year.  They are the closest to South Court Inn.

Do you want to go fishing?  We’ve referred folks to C.T. Campbell at Page Valley Fishing for years now.  He knows where the brook trout are in the mountains and can clamber over some of the hardest terrain going to get your fly just where it needs to be.   Or, if you want something a little less strenuous, he knows the river just as well.   Give him a call!