Friday, January 27, 2017

Chantilly Farm - A general description and background of farm located in Floyd, Virginia


                                                                                                   
General view of open area looking toward the festival area to the left
                                                     Chantilly farm web site "click"                      

                                                                                                                                                          Founded in 2011, Chantilly Farm has evolved into one of Southwest Virginia’s premiere venue for camping and special events. With about 200 acres of grassy fields, woodlands, and abundant wildlife, the venue provides the perfect backdrop for gatherings both large and small!


Chantilly Farm hosts an increasingly wide variety of both indoor and outdoor special events throughout the year. From larger annual events like the Chantilly Farm Bluegrass & BBQ Festival, Floyd Auto Fair and Floyd Livestock & County Fair, to smaller community events like the Second Chance Prom, Chamber business socials and weddings–Chantilly Farm is the perfect place for events of any size! Chantilly Farm is honored to have been selected as the 2015 Small
Business of the Year by the Floyd County Chamber of Commerce.  Chantilly Farm was awarded the title of a  "Crooked Road Affiliate Venue" in 2014.While many of the events we host are handled by our team, we also partner with community organizations and private individuals to host events. Whether you’re planning a small event such as a wedding or reunion or planning a larger event such as a major festival, one thing is for sure, with a diversity of programming and a beautiful setting, Chantilly Farm continues to set itself apart as one of the premiere event venues in Southwestern Virginia! 



RV full service camp sites


Our campground features 25 full hook-up RV spaces with water, electric and sewage hookups, and plenty of beautiful spaces for pitching your tent, all tucked away in the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Amenities include two bathhouses, free WiFi, hiking trails, biking trails in development, great areas for bird watching, an RV dump station, ATM, fire-pit rentals and more. A drink machine is located on the porch of the camping office along with an honor-fridge stocked with goodies! Come see us!


Tent camping along the tree line above the stage amphitheater 


The very best in national and regional bluegrass and old-time mountain music! Chantilly Farm is proud to be the official home festival of the award-winning Junior Sisk and the Ramblers Choice!


spectators at a Bluegrass Festival



Like they say, location is everything, and Chantilly Farm is proud to be located in the heart of Floyd County, Virginia, an area that has received national and international recognition in recent years as a top destination for eco-tourism, the arts, traditional music, and so much more.
Chantilly Main Stage
To learn more about Floyd and all that it has to offer, please visit www.visitfloydva.com. Visitors to our area often enjoy attending the Friday Night Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store in town, sampling Virginia wines at one of our local wineries, browsing through many of our unique galleries and shops, touring working farms, attending one of a growing number of outdoor festivals, or simply enjoying the peace and tranquility of the great outdoors.

Property and Infrastructure description.

Chantilly Farm is nearly 200 acres of beautiful land just a few minutes from mile post 150 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  The farm has about 1/2 mile of road frontage on Franklin Pike and frontage on Poor Farm Road 6 miles from the town of Floyd,Virginia. Access to the farm is excellent with 3 entrances on Franklin Pike and one on Poor Farm Road. The land is level along Franklin Pike and from there, it is a gentle slope up and over the hill top.  There is about 100 acres of open mowed grass land and 100 acres of natural woods & forest.  You can easily drive over the open rolling land. The lay of the land has several natural amphitheaters, with one developed into the main festival & event area.


Chantilly Affiliated "Crooked RoadMusic Trail"
 banner presentation 2014
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The festival and event area infrastructure is fully developed with a large covered stage, music barn, country store with shade pavilion, snack shack, water - power - lighting - and access road infrastructure. The farm has about 1.7 miles of packed gravel service roads. The roads in the festival area are well laid out with access to the  farm office/camp store,   bath house A and bath house B, stage, and music barn with a loop road that can accommodate large vans and buses.

Additional building structure on the farm includes a 4000 sq. foot storage barn located near the RV campground and is used to store all the festival supplies, mowing equipment , tractors and trucks. Access to the storage barn is excellent with three large service doors for truck entry.  The main roads have overhead lighting with 26 dust to dawn night lights for night functions and campers . The RV park accommodates 25 full service site with 50 & 30 ampere power, water and septic.  Dry camping for 100 or more RVs is available during festivals with a septic dump station and potable water for the RVs. A farm and campground office with camping supplies is on the farm access road to serve all of our camping and farm visitors.

Several hiking and bike trails along with the many acres of open fields provide recreational opportunities for campers and visitors on the farm. The 100 acres of woodland is available for exploring  and forest bathing.  Visitors will see an abundance of wild game animals and birds.  The farm is a great location for bird watching, night or dark sky viewing with a nice vista of the local Blue Ridge Mountains.

Internet service is good in the area with a fiber optic data access along the frontage on Franklin Pike. The farm has 2 internet connections and WiFi covering most of the farm and campground area with good connectivity. It will be easy to expand the internet with very high speed data service with connection to the fiber at the entrance to the farm.

The farm has 2 state licensed tent campgrounds, each with a bath house with hot showers. The water system for the farm is a Virginia Health Department licensed public water system that can supply up to 39,000 gallons a day.  This is a lot of water and our normal use is 30,000 to  40,000 gallons for a whole month.  A system of 21 potable water hydrants are distributed throughout the farm along the 1.5 miles of underground main water lines
A spring water storage  of 3000 gallons is available for agricultural purposes or other non potable water needs.

 Chantilly farm web site "click"    


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