Come together in one place. Still have your own space.
Farmhouse Getaways is our collection of eco-friendly farm stays in the hills outside San Diego, where the land is worked with care and the homes are anything but ordinary. Each property is curated with care and comfort in mind — Feel rejuvenated in nature with amenities like natural-fiber resort quality linens, and spaces laid out for the way groups actually gather.
Come together around the table, spread out across the property’s many seating areas, or slip away to a warm, inviting bedroom. Elevated but comfortable, every home is designed for families and groups who want to be together — without being on top of each other.
- Superhost — 9 years of exceptional stays
- 4.9 ★ across 47 reviews
- 35 minutes from downtown San Diego
- San Diego Zoo Safari Park — 10 miles
- Julian — 30 minutes up the road
- 40+ wineries within 10 miles
- Potato Chip Rock — 2 miles
- Farm store at the back gate
- Sleeps 32 across both properties
- Mt. Woodson Castle — 2.7 miles
- As seen in the San Diego Union-Tribune
- Featured in Ramona Home Journal & Hidden San Diego
Pick one, or take both.
Two farmhouses, three miles apart, sleeping 32 between them — close enough to share dinner, far enough that everyone gets their own morning.
Rates and availability are live.
Red Barn Ranch · sleeps 18
- Sleeps18
- Bedrooms6 bed · 3.5 bath
- Acreage4
- Farm standAt the back gate
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See the ranch →Mountain Retreat · sleeps 14
- Sleeps14
- Bedrooms4 bed · 3 bath
- Acreage8
- Iron MountainTrails on the property
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Two curated properties
We built these for the trips worth rounding everyone up for.
The right house makes the whole trip. Enough beds for everyone, and rooms and spaces people want to linger in — that’s the bar we set, and it’s the whole reason these properties exist. Both homes were furnished by the same hands, and you’ll feel it the moment you walk in — the same warmth, the same care, the same curated experience.
Red Barn Ranch is a working micro-farm, with hens and peacocks to greet in the morning, a vineyard, a greenhouse and gardens.
Mountain Retreat is eight acres of trail and pine at the base of Iron Mountain.
Different landscapes, same welcome.
Everyone is coming. We planned for that.
When a whole group gathers, small details can affect how the trip feels. Where the youngest ones sleep. Whether anyone has to manage stairs. Where the kids can be kids while adults gather around the table. We planned for all of it.
The main house at Red Barn Ranch is single-story — all six bedrooms on one floor, no stairs at the entry — and every bedroom at Mountain Retreat is on the ground floor too. The pool is fenced. Seating areas are tucked all around both properties. The card game, the quiet readers, and the loud conversation each get their own corner. Our smallest guests are also top of mind: pack-n-plays and high chairs at both houses, and enough toys to keep them enchanted.
Good to know
- PoolFenced
- BedroomsOne floor at both properties
- Pack-n-playsThree at the ranch, two at the retreat
- High chairs and toysBoth properties
- Chemicals on the groundsNone
- Bath & laundryProvided, chemical-free
- Room to gatherIndoors and out
The same hands behind both houses.
Farmhouse Getaways is us - Cory, Carissa & Legend, The same hands chose both properties and furnished every room — and we live on-site at Red Barn Ranch, tending the birds, the gardens, the grounds, and the onsite farm store.
When you call with a question, you’re talking to the people who lovingly care for the spaces. During a stay at the ranch, whatever’s ripe in the garden is yours to pick. If your group wants more of the farm, just ask — we’re happy to schedule time for hands-on at the bird garden. Mornings can start with gathering eggs if the kids are up for it.
For groups who want to go all in, we offer add-on experiences too, from neighboring farm visits, in-house massages and chefs, to the kids trying their luck to sift some gems at our mining sluice — ask us and we’ll set it up.
Mountain Retreat offers a different kind of stay: eight acres of trail and pine at the base of Iron Mountain, made for slow mornings and long dinners. And whichever house you book, the arrangement is the same — we’re a phone call away when you need something, and out of your way when you don’t.
There is a farm store on the property.
Mini Barn Market sits at the back entrance of Red Barn Ranch, about a ninety-second walk from the front porch. Guests can wander over in pajamas for eggs and sourdough before anyone else is up. Since it's on the outside of the property, Mountain Retreat guests are welcome here as well.
Eggs from the birds everyone met yesterday. Produce, mushrooms, sourdough, and soap from people who make it here, or just a few miles from here. It is one of the most unique and beloved experiences in San Diego County, and guests staying at the ranch are fifty steps from it.
Ranch in Wine Country · 4 acres
Red Barn Ranch
Six bedrooms, a fenced oasis pool and hot tub, a greenhouse, a vineyard, and a 2,200 square foot barn where the children end up every afternoon and never want to leave. Eighteen people can be together here and still find room to spread out. We live on the property, so the animals, the garden and the farm store all come with someone who is happy to show you around.
Private & secluded · 8 acres · the whole place to yourselves
Mountain Retreat
Secluded land and a quiet pace. A hot tub under a star-filled sky, eight acres of hiking trails that start in the back yard, horseshoes across the seasonal stream, and 3 holes of Disc Golf. Dos Picos County Park with beautiful trails and a fishing pond are a short walk away.
Some groups take both houses.
Together the two properties sleep thirty-two, three miles apart. Wedding parties do this, and so do family reunions, retreats and companies bringing a team out for a few days. Everyone stays close, and nobody ends up scattered across a hotel.
The two of them together
- Red Barn RanchSleeps 18
- Mountain RetreatSleeps 14
- Both together32
- Between the two3 miles
- Mt. Woodson Castle2.7 mi
- Booking feesNone
There is enough here to fill the week, and the rest of San Diego is thirty minutes away.
More than forty wineries sit on the Ramona plateau within ten miles of either property. Potato Chip Rock is just over a mile away, the Safari Park is twenty-five minutes, and Julian is thirty minutes up into the mountains for apple pie. Downtown San Diego and all the beaches are thirty-five minutes back the other way.
Most groups end up going into the city much less than they planned to — they settle in, the children find the pool and the barn, and days go by without anyone starting their car. We take that as a compliment. The rest of San Diego is right there if you ever want it.
- Wine countryMore than forty wineries within ten miles. Several close enough to walk.
- Farm standsOurs is at the back gate of Red Barn Ranch, with ten more within a mile, and thirty-plus across the valley on the map we drew — most of them at the end of a country road that most people miss.
- Mt. WoodsonPotato Chip Rock is the most photographed hike in Southern California. A wide trail, paved all the way to the top, this steep hike is great for the whole family.
- Iron MountainMountain Retreat guests can hike our private trails on the back of Iron Mountain. The public trailhead is 5 miles down the 67 and provides a beautiful hike.
- Ramona Grasslands PreserveOpen rolling hills, easy walking and good mountain biking. Hawks nest there, and some springs National Geographic comes out to photograph them hatching.
- Dos Picos County ParkA county park of oak groves and a fishing pond, with trails, mountain biking and a big playground. Walkable from Mountain Retreat.
- JulianA mile high city at 5000+ feet, this gold mining time has lots to explore. Apple pie, gold mines, and pine forest, just thirty minutes up the road. It snows here in the wintertime.
- Safari ParkTen miles & twenty five minutes, and you are looking at rhinos and elephants at the amazing Safari Park. This San Diego Zoo sanctuary is amazing, and In our opinion, even better than the downtown San Diego Zoo.
- San DiegoThirty-five minutes to downtown or the airport, which is the part guests never believe until they drive it.
We drew the map. You can have it.
30+ working farm stands on this plateau. Many of them run on the honor system, most of them sit at the end of a road you would never think to turn down, and almost none of them appeared on any map until we went out and made one. It is the same ground Farmstand.TV covers, mapped.
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