Your Next Spring Break
Relax: Fort Lewis Plantation & Lodge, Virginia
Why go: You and your young pioneers can glimpse life in olden times—without enduring the slightest hardship—at the Fort Lewis Plantation & Lodge, a 200-year-old cattle farm on 3,200 acres in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains.
Why it's relaxing: By day, you'll pitch horseshoes, fish for rock bass, and float down Cow Pasture River in an inner tube. After dark, there's the viewing platform, where you can marvel at a sky lit by a million stars. Guests sleep in the farmhouse, silo, or log cabins; meals made with ingredients from farm and forest are served family style in a renovated grist mill.
Winning detail: Just ask, and the owner will build a bonfire to order.
Info: Millboro, Va.; 540/925-2314; www.fortlewislodge.com; family suites from $210, plus $45 for each kid 2–12, $70 for kids over 12, including breakfast and dinner. Open April through mid-November.
