Ruther Glen: U-Pick Farms, Golf, and History

Ruther Glen offers several specific reasons to visit that appeal to different interests when planning a stay: picking your own produce at a farm, golfing amid dense woodland, and the Caroline Woodland Trail. The Caroline County Agricultural Fair Association also hosts an annual agricultural fair. Caroline County adds history and sports to the mix.

Things to Do in Ruther Glen

At Mt Olympus Farm, you can pick your own strawberries, blueberries, and pumpkins. The farm recommends checking current picking conditions before your visit. Picking your own produce puts your harvest at the center of the experience, setting it apart from a round of golf or a visit focused on history.

The golf course at Pendleton Golf Club stretches for more than 7,000 yards through Ruther Glen’s dense forests. The course length and woodland setting give you two specific features to consider when evaluating this golfing option. Since operating conditions and tee-time availability can change, check them before your visit.

The Caroline Woodland Trail is located at 13651 Devils Three Jump Road in Ruther Glen. Along with the farm and golf course, it adds another outdoor option to the local offerings. This gives you a choice of different types of activities for your plans, rather than just different versions of the same activity.

The Agricultural Fair as an Event

The Caroline County Agricultural Fair Association in Ruther Glen hosts an annual agricultural fair. This adds a recurring event to the individual recreational offerings. If the fair is central to your trip, check the dates for your intended year before planning your stay around it. This lets you distinguish a visit to the fair as a specific reason to go from a stay focused mainly on outdoor activities.

History and Sports in Caroline County

A cast of the Eobalaenoptera skeleton is on display at the Caroline County Visitor Center. The discovery was made in 1990 at the Martin Marietta Carmel Church Quarry. The quarry is in Caroline County, about 2 miles west of Interstate 95. The exhibit and the discovery site give the fossil a specific regional context, including both the year of the discovery and the named location.

Five sites in Caroline County on the Virginia Civil War Trails tour are associated with Grant’s Overland Campaign and the Battle of the North Anna River, which was fought primarily in Caroline County. This is a different way to explore regional history than the single fossil discovery: here, the focus is on several sites connected with a campaign and a battle. This lets you distinguish the two topics by their respective historical connections.

In Caroline County, the Virginia Sports Complex operates eight baseball/softball fields: four youth-size and four regulation-size. Its 40,000-square-foot Fieldhouse provides space for sporting events such as baseball, softball, basketball, and volleyball. Unlike the golf course in Ruther Glen, the focus here is on two sizes of baseball/softball fields and several sports in the Fieldhouse. This gives sports-minded travelers another way to compare the activities mentioned by sport and facility type.

For a broader travel overview: Caroline County.