Homestead Preserve is a unique, conservation-based resort residential community located in the Allegheny Mountains adjacent to The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia.  Located on one of the last extensive pristine areas of southern Appalachian landscape, the community borders both The Nature Conservancy’s Warm Springs Mountain Preserve and the George Washington National Forest.

Situated on 2,300 acres of rolling pasture, quiet woods, and wide-open vistas, Homestead Preserve has limited construction to 450 homes in settings ranging from country villages to small rural estates.  The community’s signature feature is its architecture, which is designed to reflect the native historic architecture of rural Bath County, Virginia, in styles ranging from Arts and Crafts to Virginia farmhouses. 

When Homestead Preserve was founded in 2002, its developers, Celebration Associates, sold 9,250 acres of their original 11,500-acre purchase on and around Warm Springs Mountain and the Cascades Gorge to The Nature Conservancy.  In October 2004, they placed an additional 935 acres into permanent conservation easements with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation to ensure the protection of the area’s mountain ridges and pastoral landscape in perpetuity. 
Together, these actions ensure that no more than 325 acres, or less than 3% of the developers’ original 11,500-acre purchase, will ever be affected by development.