By the Side of the Road Bed & Breakfast
 | By the Side of the Road Bed & Breakfast |
By the Side of the Road is a historic bed and breakfast in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. The main building is a large Flemish Bond brick structure built shortly after the American Revolution. The Bed and Breakfast features four main house suites and three cottage suites with fireplaces, featherbeds and whirlpools. Since inception in 1999, By the Side of the Road has been committed to environmental excellence and is pledged to continue developing new ways to preserve and protect the environment for our grandchildren a beautiful and clean and environmentally healthy Virginia for all time.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting By the Side of the Road Bed & Breakfast, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Low flow toilets
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- EnergyStar computers, appliances, etc
- Insulation and storm windows
- Lawn areas replaced with low maintenance beds
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper recycling
- Water efficient washers
- Energy efficient dryers
- Environmentally-friendly detergents with minimal use of bleach
- Linen segregation for lightly soiled loads
- Extensive use of electronic documents and records
- Use of latex paints
- Reuse/donation of unused materials
- Reused building materials (vintage flooring, beams, stonework, fixtures)