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Opening in June 2007, Blackberry Creek Retreat is a newly constructed Missouri bed and breakfast offering lodging accommodations for your Ozarks vacation. More than just a typical country inn, Blackberry Creek Retreat is a comprehensive retreat center and meeting facility featuring luxurious amenities in a secluded and peaceful rural setting.
For a number of years, Innkeepers Mark and Dixie Dawson have been
entertaining friends and family at their Southwest Missouri vacation home,
while living and working in Dallas, Texas. Raising two boys in a city
environment, while escaping for summers and holidays to this rural Missouri
setting, they learned the value and need for getting away from the daily
grind of life.
Dixie had dreamed for years of having a bed and breakfast, and when Matthew,
the oldest son, and his wife, Beth, got married on a small
pasture of this property, the idea of combining a Bed & Breakfast with a
small group Retreat Center came closer to reality. Mark retired from his
sales career, they sold their Texas home, and construction began on the 6000
square foot facility known as Blackberry Creek Retreat Bed & Breakfast.
The B&B consists of five beautiful guestrooms. Each guestroom features a
private bath, all with luxurious amenities that reflect their own eclectic
charm and rustic style. Guests can relax in the comfortable lounge/library
with bird watching, or they may wish to escape down to the huge room beautifully
decorated with country elegance including a massive rock fireplace in a
secluded wooded setting. Experience nature's surroundings by relaxing
indoors or outdoors full of wildlife and more bird watching, several patios
to choose from. Come relax by a fire pit and savor your own cup of pleasure.
The Retreat area offers 2400 sq. ft. with private restrooms and commercial
kitchen that can accommodate small groups, receptions, reunions, club
meetings, church bible studies, weddings, small corporate meetings, or
whatever your private function.
In the morning, expect a culinary treat at breakfast prepared fresh daily
from the bounty of local farms, eggs from free range chickens, milk poured
from glass bottles from the local dairy, Memory Lane. It will be a new
experience each morning and rewarding. You can even visit the farms.
Blackberry Creek Retreat is located on 40 secluded acres of wooded, small
pastures, private fishing ponds and rolling hills in the center of Webster
County, Missouri, Blackberry Creek Retreat offers a quiet getaway. The
property was homesteaded in 1890, and the original log home still stands
today as a reminder of this area's heritage.
Blackberry Creek Retreat is easily accessible sitting just 10 to 15 minutes
from major highways I-44, US 60 and US 65, as each approach Springfield,
Missouri, the Queen City of the Ozarks.
Your sanctuary offers a base of naturalist activities including, Compton
Hollow Conservation Area, hiking, biking, riding, several rivers for trout
fishing, as well as short day trips to Branson, Mark Twain National Forest,
Wilson Creek National Civil War Battlefield, Bass Pro Shops National
Headquarters, National Wildlife Museum, Missouri State University and other
major universities, Laura Ingalls Wilder home place, Missouri Grist Mill
Tour, Amish Country, antique shops, should you choose to explore more of
this beautiful Ozark country.
Blackberry Creek Retreat will also offer a quaint shopping experience in it's
own gift shop that will offer plenty of Missouri made goods and featuring
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