Guadalupe River Road Retreat Southwestern Cabin

Perfect stay for our family to host friends over the Holiday weekend. Well appointed. Comfortable. Just as described. :)

It is our family’s 5th summer in a row to visit this beautiful property, lovingly maintained by the wonderful owners Carlton and Laura. Each house is immaculately clean and has everything we need in the kitchen to prepare meals. We enjoy drinking our coffee on the back porch deck, the chairs by the fire pit, or the swing, each with a stunning view of the Guadalupe River and canyon. We spend all day outside under the tall shade trees playing corn hole, grilling on the back porch every day for lunch, floating and cooling off in the river, and shooting hoops and playing badminton on the tennis courts for which you can turn on the lights for night games. We enjoy taking nature walks around the property looking at native flowers, trees, hummingbirds, and the butterfly garden, listening to the birds and even owls in the early evening. At night we watch the fireflies and cook s’mores by the fire pit that Carlton sets up for us. Carlton and Laura are the sweetest people, and we appreciate their kindness, care, and hard work to share their gorgeous property with visitors to make sure that we have everything we need and a wonderful, fun, easy experience. We treasure our happy memories there and can’t wait to come back.

An amazing get away to an amazing place. A very beautiful property with amazing hosts. Absolutely picture perfect with giant trees, wildlife, flowers and peace and quiet. Picture-Perfect river front area for relaxing or water fun. Can’t say enough about the kindness of the hosts. Two wonderful people. We will definitely go back and recommend to friends.

If you’ve ever driven down River Road and seen the American Flag and driven past, you passed up a great experience. First and foremost Mr. Carlton and Mrs. Laura are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, from meeting us at the gate upon our arrival to give us a small guided tour to the small talks every day. Just generally great people. Quiet down home atmosphere. We stayed in the SouthWestern cabin/house with the Santa Fe motif. House was cozy and spacious plus had all the amenities you need. The houses are in a gated tract of land away from the hustle and bustle of many of the other places on River Road. Private access to the river, so you can set up down there and enjoy the river or put in up river and float to the private access. If you put your tubes in at Meckels it’s about 2.5-3 hour float and if you put in at the beginning of Lazy L&L it’s about 7-8 hours.

Great spot on Guadalupe with personable owner who went above & beyond, repairing our inner tube, guiding us on floating, setting up the fire-it and equipping us with scores supplies. Our stay was enhanced by lovely bouquet of flowers in the house prepared by his wife. Highly recommended!

This was our 2nd time at this property. The southwest cabin was beautiful! Fresh flowers from Laura & Carlton were precious! Excellent location on the river. Water temperature was perfect. Privacy from other guests was great. Seen on the property a fox, ground squirrels, bumblebees, geese, all kinds of exciting critters! The water pressure from the shower head wasn't the best but all the positives outweigh the 1 negative. We will definitely be back! Love love love this location & the hosts!

My family and I throughly enjoyed our stay here. Beautiful, relaxing, family friendly get away! We will definitely be back! The owners were so nice and accommodating! Can’t wait to book our next trip!

We had a wonderful experience staying at the river road retreat. The property was amazing with lush greenery and a view of the river that was hard to step away from. Be prepared to see deer, white geese, a pair of Egyptian ducks, Hootie the owl, and black squirrels. The home that we stayed in was perfectly stocked with soaps, towels, kitchen utensils, soft sheets, coffee, water, trash bags, paper towels, toilet paper (Charmin) and all the makings for s'mores. Our river needs were met with a wagon to take down all of our items, an air compressor for our tubes, and extra tubes had we need them. Laura and Carlton were the perfect hosts who went out of their way to make sure that we had everything that we needed to have a wonderful stay. We will definitely be returning soon!

House was clean and ready with everything we needed for a great get away. Host even provided tubes and started a fire for Smores. Could not have ask for anything else.

This was our 2nd time to stay here! Host are so accommodating.