Travel

Eighteen ladies spending several days together on three floors of a mountain cabin? For the Fantastic Quilters Guild of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., it means enough room for 18 sewing machines and their annual jelly roll race.

Cradled by the Blue Ridge Mountains, Cummings Cove Golf & Country Club is a private, gated community with more than 650 acres offering a wide range of homes and homesites.

For one couple, the lure of the cabins at Breaks Interstate Park on the Virginia/Kentucky border is a four-season pull, with scenery, hiking and solitude adding to the pleasures of the well-equipped cabins.

The new cabins on a scenic 145-acre property are a wooden bridge away from the slow-flowing Ararat River, and not much farther away from the Blue Ridge Parkway and the charm and shopping of Mt. Airy.