Glen Highland Farm

I have to chime in here about the bathrooms. These were quite possibly the cleanest bathrooms from a campsite I have ever seen!!! Aside from that, my wife and I had an amazing time here, and they do absolutely wonderful work with their rescue. Thanks for an amazing experience. We will be letting all our friends know what a great time we had.

I visited Glen Highland Farm’s Canine Country Camp experience two years in a row. I had an excellent time both years, and would be there this year again if it was being offered. If you always wanted to find somewhere to take your dog on vacation where everyone would have an awesome time– dog included — this is the place to go. There are dog-​friendly vacation spots like Provincetown on Cape Cod, but your dog still has to be on-​leash most of the time, and certainly can’t explore at will. At GHF, your dog can be a dog, running and playing on the fenced-​in property, splashing in the creek, practicing on the agility equipment or just lounging with you under a tree. What you do is up to you and your dog. When we stayed, we opted for the large tent. It is on a wooden platform and is spacious enough for two adults and two large dogs with crates. Water is brought to your tent, and the shower facilities are nearby (and very clean and comfortable). Depending on where your tent or cabin is located around the property, creeks or meadows or trails are just steps away. There is a communal kitchen area for food storage and BBQ for cooking.
In addition, the work that Lillie and the team do with rescued border collies is just fantastic, and it felt great to support them by taking our vacation on the farm. I really can’t wait to visit again.

The mission of this establishment is to rescue Border Collies and they do a wonderful job with that. One can visit and bring one’s dogs on vacation for a 2 night minimum. The farm is approximately 200 acres and is fenced in so that dogs can be safely «off leash.» There are ponds and streams for people and dogs to swim and wade in, toys and agility equipment to use, and a well equipped cooking «Pavilion.» One can rent a cottage, an RV, or bring your own camper.
We rented an RV for a cost of $ 275 per night, this was the least expensive option. When I started to unpack my food I found that the refrigerator was dirty and I started to clean it. When the owner came by to give us a tour of the camp I told him that I wasn’t ready to go because I was cleaning. A short while later the executive director came by and offered us an upgrade to a better and newer RV saying that staff would pack us up and move us. We thanked her and said of course! We had to pack ourselves up but staff moved us. I would have been delighted except that the «better» RV also had cleanliness issues as well — some quite serious. The worst was an infestation of larvae on the toilet seat!
I know that part of the rental price goes to support the dog rescue operation but nowhere were we told that this was a non-​profit and what part of our fee could be deducted from our taxes. I expected a much better effort at cleaning the RV, especially at the prices charged.
Our dog did have a very nice time but not enough of one to make us want to return.
8÷9÷13 RESPONSE TO LILLIE’S COMMENTS POSTED 8÷8÷13
Some people like or even love a place and some don’t. That’s what happens when you run a business. However, to respond to a bad review with misstatements, hyperbole, suppositions, and disingenuous remarks as Lillie did is beyond the pale; and, I must respond to set the record straight and lower my rating to one star. Just a friendly suggestion, perhaps Lillie should review the guidelines for reviews posted by business owners since I think that she exceeded the limits set forth in those.
Yes, the upgrade was offered at no charge as it should have been and I did not suggest otherwise. I looked at the upgraded RV very quickly since the owner was waiting to give us our tour, I did not «inspect [sic] it carefully.» I did have a positive response to it, and, maybe even said that it was «great» because it looked better than our original accommodations — it was newer, bigger, and brighter. I did not check out the interior of the refrigerator, which required cleaning.
On our second day there, Lillie and a friend were walking by quickly on ONE occasion, while I was outside deeply absorbed in painting. She asked how everything was and I said, «fine,» since I was not going to start complaining about things that I had already cleaned and was not going to move again — besides, I was concentrating on painting and wanted to enjoy myself as much as possible at this point. It was NOT an overwhelming endorsement of anything.
That night, our second and LAST night at the camp, there was a thunderstorm and we lost power around 9 or 10 PM. It was around then that I went to use the toilet and went into the bathroom with my flashlight and saw the larvae. I lifted the seat and saw that there was a total infestation of them. This does NOT happen all of a sudden, eggs take a while to gestate and hatch, so they were there BEFORE we checked in.
There was no cell phone reception in the area and I wouldn’t call someone at 10 PM anyway for something that I was able to clean-​up with the bleach product they had supplied under the kitchen sink, so that is what I did. I don’t know what Lillie would have wanted me to do but I did what I considered the sensible thing to do even though it was disgusting and gross; besides we had to checkout the next morning by 11 AM. I wasn’t about to checkout in the middle of the night in a thunderstorm and ask for a refund. If fact, Lillie’s raising the question that perhaps we had «a strategy to get a refund» is simply over the top and totally without foundation. Believe me, if we wanted a refund she would have heard about it BEFORE we left that weekend.
She never addressed the non-​profit question I raised and I think that everyone who stays there deserves an answer to that.
Her gratuitous comment that my other reviews are filled with fault finding overlooks the fact that my 5 and 4 star ratings, which are filled with praise, outnumber my negative ratings. What difference does that make anyway? If something is below par, it SHOULD be brought up on Unilocal — it’s a review site for the good and the not so good. And I did point out their wonderful work as a dog rescue & that our dog had a good time.
It’s curious to me that I was the one to put this establishment on Unilocal and that Lillie’s response and the 3 positive reviews all have the same date