Crossroads Inn in Crozet, Virginia

Overview

The building at 5010 Plank Rd in North Garden has been putting up travelers since 1820, back when it was a tavern house on a country road and the road itself was the reason to stop. Two centuries later the reason has changed but the instinct hasn't: this is still a place people pull off the highway to rest, except now the rest comes with vineyards on the next parcel over and the Blue Ridge filling the windows. Crossroads Inn is roughly fifteen minutes south of downtown Charlottesville, close enough to reach a restaurant reservation and far enough that the last stretch of the drive quiets everything down.

The house carries its age on paper as well as in its bones. It's listed on the National Historic Register and designated a Virginia Historic Landmark, which is a way of saying the original tavern-house structure has been kept rather than gutted. The inn leans into that. Its own description talks about preserving "the incredible historic soul of the original tavern house" while wiring in the modern conveniences a guest actually expects, and the tension between those two things, old walls and current comforts, is more or less the whole pitch.

The history you're sleeping in

In 2022 the inn was bought by the owners of a longtime neighbor, Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards. Dean and Lynn Andrews built Pippin Hill in 2010 as part of their Easton Porter Group, a small collection of hospitality properties in Charlottesville and in Charleston, South Carolina. They took on Crossroads, by their own account, out of a stated passion for restoring historic inns, and the intent was continuity: carry the old tavern house forward rather than reinvent it.

What that ownership means for a guest is mostly a matter of tone. Each room is described as a nod to the wider Easton Porter collection, with the properties' story worked into the photos on the walls and the textures and tones of the furnishings. The phrase the inn uses for its own aesthetic is "elevated and curated," which in practice means a designed, considered interior sitting inside a genuinely old building. If you want to read further before you arrive, the inn keeps a dedicated history page.

What's next door

The location is doing a lot of quiet work here. Crossroads sits beside Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards, now its sister property, and near Albemarle CiderWorks, so a stay can fold in wine and cider without much driving. The inn openly pitches the pairing, pointing guests toward Pippin Hill for a meal or a glass and, at times, wood-fired pizza and live music on the vineyard's calendar. Beyond the immediate neighbors, the inn positions itself as a base for the broader region: Monticello, the University of Virginia, and the Blue Ridge Parkway are all named as reachable from the door, and the surrounding hills are the kind you can simply walk out into.

The inn is small and personal in the way a converted tavern house has to be. Guest feedback the inn has shared points to the things that tend to matter most at a place this size, warm hospitality, breakfast, and a genuinely peaceful setting, which is about what you'd hope for from a bed-and-breakfast that has been in the lodging business, on and off and under many hands, for two hundred years.

Planning a stay

Rooms and rates are handled through the inn's own accommodations page, and booking runs through its reservation system. The inn also lists curated experiences and sells gift cards for anyone trying to hand someone else a weekend in the country. To ask about availability directly, call (434) 260-8792, or start from the main site.

It's worth being clear-eyed about what this is and isn't. It isn't a hotel with a front desk humming at all hours; it's a historic inn a short drive out of Charlottesville, next to a working vineyard, in a very quiet part of Albemarle County. That's the appeal. You come here to disconnect, to wander the scenic hills the inn keeps mentioning because they really are right outside the door, and to spend a night inside a building that has been watching this crossroads since 1820.