Red River Gorgeous

We stayed at WildFlower cabin. We expected the cabin to be rustic (and it was) but we did not expect the cabin to be dirty, full of dust, cob webs, dirt and unclean dishes. We payed for linen — and it was filthy — we were happy we brought sleeping bags with us. The towels looked like rags.
The silverware and dishes: the cabin is designed for 6 people. We had only 5 forks, 3 spoons, 3 knives, 4 glasses and 5 cups.
The firewood: we paid $ 20 for the firewood. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE SAME MISTAKE. The firewood they provided was wet and the pile was small. There are lots and lots of places to buy fire wood from on the way to the cabin (which I would recommend not to rent, check out 5 star cabin place before you go with Red River Gorgeous). $ 20 will buy you about 3 piles of wood we got for paying $ 20.
The good thing — creek is near by. Grill is available. Nice fire pit.
Other than that — the place is run down and no one should pay $ 90 – 100 for these conditions.
One more thing — the WildFlower cabin and rest of the cabins are located right on the busy road 77.

Red River Gorgeous is our favorite cabin company in the Gorge. We have been staying in their cabins for 7 years and should have posted something sooner. We have stayed at Wildfire, Firefly, Backcountry, and MossRock.
We go to get away and enjoy the outdoors. Without satellite tv it forces you to relax and have meaningful conversations. We enjoy the off the grid cabins which do not have electric and toilets instead they have an outhouse.
MossRock is our new favorite. This place is a short hike up a path that can take your breath away. From the hike and the views. We have been there with large groups of people and just the two of us. They have a lot of room on the porch. One of the trips we had so many people that our brother slept with his family on the porch in a tent that they brought. It is off the grid so no electric and no toilet. The outhouse does have a large window that provides an excellent view.
They do have a propane stove and heater (winter is our favorite time to go) Water is provided but we always bring our own as well. We do use the water from the pumps to fill up the shower bucket. Literally a bucket that is on a pulley system that you can shower in the tub. In the winter we will heat up the water on the stove which takes some time but is worth it.
It is very secluded and close to many hiking trails. Martins fork is down the hill. Most people will go to Greys Arch but our favorite is Daniel Boone Hut for a short hike and Rough Trail for a longer hike.
We are not huge climbers but was told that this is the closest cabin to Left Flank and Military wall which are suppose to be one of the best places to climb in the Gorge.
Firefly is smaller version of MossRock and do not need to hike to it. They don’t have a tub like MossRock. The porch is cozy but spent a lot if time on it because of the view it provides. We have only stayed in the winter and fall (again our favorite time to go to the Gorge) but always kept warm from the propane heater on the wall. We bring headlamps and lanterns that provide us light for a game of monopoly or cards that are not provided but bring with us.
Wildfire is a great place if you want electric and a toilet. It has a beautiful window that faces the creek. Our first stay we thought the propane heater was not working but it was user error. My wife kept turning off the water so did not allow time to heat the water since it is on demand and does not have a tank.
They do have a beautiful covered porch with a nice swing. We have used this area to grill when it was raining.

My husband and I choose Red River Gorgeous as a place to spend our wedding anniversary. We were put in Tall Timbers Cabin. In the pictures the cabin looked very nice and it seemed like an ideal place to spend some quality time and get in some hiking and share the beauty of Red River Gorge. However, upon arrival we immediately regretted the decision. The cabin didn’t appear nearly as nice as it did in the pictures. Actually, it wasn’t nice at all. The pictures online appeared as though they were taken when the cabin was originally built before being used. It appeared as if it hadn’t been cleaned since then either. We felt completely ripped off!!! We have rented cabins every year for our anniversary and have paid a comparable price, if not less considering the extra fees we paid for linens and firewood. Not to mention the linens were stratchy uncomfortable blankets that I remember having as a kid back in the 1980’s. Definitely not worth paying extra for. The cabin was in poor shape and in need of maintanence and a thorough cleaning. It smelled musty and foul upon entering. It states it sleeps 4. Maybe 4 drunken college kids who don’t care where they pass out at because no sober person would want to sleep on these beds. My husband and I carried our bags inside and upon walking around and checking the cabin out we carried them right back to the car and left to find a decent place to sleep. Before my husband agreed that we should go find somewhere else to stay I was comtemplating how I could sleep in my car because that would have been better than sleeping in the cabin and definitely cleaner. This anniversary trip was a major disappointment considering all our activities were planned around red river gorge and we had to go stay an hour away because the cabin was so awful.

Allow me to preface this review with the following statement — I’m in the Army and I have slept in plenty of crappy environments. With that being said, I still have reasonable expectations of cleanliness when I’m paying money to stay somewhere. That expectation applies even in a rustic, bare-​bones cabin such as the one I stayed in this past Labor Day weekend (I stayed in the Sycamore.)
There are positives — the location is great. We were within walking distance of the Martin’s Fork trailhead — thus giving us the ability to hike the Rough Trail from our cabin.
But there was just one issue that I couldn’t get over. We walked into the cabin on Friday night and did our usual checks — making sure there are no axe murderers hiding, scoping the place out, etc. We decided after our initial look that we would sleep on the futon instead of the actual bed because the window AC unit was in the main room. After stripping the flat and fitted sheets that we paid $ 15 for off the bed so we could transfer them to the futon, we noticed the bed was COVERED in mouse poop. That is not an exaggeration. It literally looked like someone was making chocolate cupcakes in the bed and dumped the sprinkles. The fact that the fitted sheet was on the bed with all of this mouse crap under it, to me, says that whoever prepared the cabin consciously overlooked it and decided that was acceptable.
It doesn’t stop there. There was also mouse feces in and on the dishes, on the counter tops, and on the wooden shelves that were hung. You know, pretty much any surface that would be of any use to us.
To top it off, the mice visited us while we slept that night and nibbled on some of our food. The cool part was, they also pooped in our travel bags! YAY!
Anyway, enough about the ridiculous amount of mouse dump.
I tried contacting management and was told they would get back to me ASAP, though my guess would be that my contact information probably got deuced on by a mouse because I never heard from them. So I emailed them — no response. Then I decided to suggest they change the name of the cabin to «Mouse House» and notified them of situation on Facebook. Yeah, they pretty readily deleted that wall post — which I think is funny because one of the testimonials on their website says «NO MICE!» which is a pretty random, unprovoked observation if you ask me. When I stay at a hotel or a bed and breakfast, my first thought isn’t «Man, what a great hotel. They didn’t even have mice!» But I digress. My significant other messaged their Facebook in the event they may take the time out of stuffing mouse nuggets in their beds to respond — but they declined to do so as well.
In short — unless you have a mouse poop fetish and thoroughly enjoy being ignored after an exchange of services for money — sleep in your car or spend the $ 15 on a back country camping permit before you even consider this place.