The ranch house at golden hour
Experiences at River & Roots

Come Once.
Remember It Forever.

Evenings, mornings, and full days on 246 private acres — designed to get you out here without booking the whole ranch.

Book an Experience

Seven ways onto the land. Pick one and stay for the sunset.

Music by the fire. Dinner under the oaks. A walk to the water. Three hours of bream on private river. Each experience is also available as an add-on for wedding weekends, retreats, and corporate offsites staying on the property.

The ranch house glowing at golden hour
Evening3 hours · October – May

Songwriters' Circle

Three or four Nashville- and Jacksonville-area songwriters around a bonfire. Original songs, the stories behind them, and farm-to-table appetizers under the stars. You hear the story before you hear the song. The sparks go up, a harmony catches you off guard, and you drive home humming.

$75/person
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The chef’s kitchen inside the Ranch House
Evening3.5 hours · Year-round

Chef’s Table Dinner

A multi-course farm-to-table dinner prepared by a local chef, served family-style on the covered porch with 246 acres as your backdrop. Wine pairing available. You'll pass a platter to someone you met an hour ago. By dessert you'll have their number.

$135/person
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Horses grazing in the pasture at River & Roots Ranch
VIP4–5 hours · Year-round

Pilates & Ponies

Door-to-door VIP day: luxury bus from Jacksonville, pilates in the pasture, mimosas and brunch, IV hydration, B12, Botox, facials, and a goodie bag ride home. Grass under your mat, a horse watching you hold a plank, mimosas after. You'll laugh more than you planned to.

$175/person
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A boat pulled up on a white sandbar on the St. Marys River at River & Roots Ranch
Evening2.5 hours · Year-round

Sunset Drift

Paddle upstream along 1.2 miles of private frontage, then stop paddling and let the river carry you home through the last hour of light. Stop paddling. Let the river do the work while the sky turns the water copper.

$95/person
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A guide running a jon boat up the St. Marys River at River & Roots Ranch
On the Water3 hours · Weekends December–February · weekday evenings from March

Blackwater Bream

Three hours on 1.2 miles of private blackwater with Abe at the tiller. Redbreast, bluegill, warmouth, and whatever else is holding in the timber. That tug on the line feels exactly like it did when you were nine.

$400 / boat, up to 4 anglers
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A sand road running west through oak and pine canopy toward the St. Marys River
On the Land45 minutes · Year-round

The River Walk

A guided walk from the ranch house down to the St. Marys. Pine flatwoods, a floodplain that arrives without announcing itself, and a river that starts in the Okefenokee. Forty-five minutes, and your breathing slows down to match your steps.

$45/person
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The ranch house and pasture at sunset at River & Roots Ranch
Retreat2 hours · Year-round

The Strategic Bonfire

The conversation your offsite was actually for — around a fire near the river, facilitated, with no slides and no exercise anyone has to be told is safe. People say true things by a fire that they never say in a meeting room.

$55/person
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Add to Your Stay

Build Your Weekend.

Wedding Weekend

  • Sunset Drift
  • Songwriters' Circle
  • Chef's Table (rehearsal)

Bachelorette

  • Pilates & Ponies
  • Songwriters' Circle
  • Sunset Drift

Corporate Offsite

  • Chef's Table Dinner
  • Sunset Drift
  • Songwriters' Circle

Wellness Retreat

  • Pilates & Ponies
  • Chef's Table Dinner
  • Sunset Drift
Begin the Conversation

Let's get you out here.

Tell us which experience you're interested in, who you're bringing, and the season you have in mind. We'll answer within a day.