My wife and I just spent a wonderful 6 nights here. The cabin is fairly new and is well-constructed and well-appointed, with cute ranch-related decor. All the appliances, plumbing and AC work well. Technologically, the satellite TV is standard definition, our Verizon phones had poor signal (no LTE) and the wifi (fed from a nearby location) was spotty and would not allow for video streaming.

The back deck with hot tub allows for a beautiful view of the sunrise in the morning or the stars at night. The house sits on a ridge overlooking a hay field valley below, with the tree-lined Meramec River flowing along the far side of the field. Several mornings a mist/fog was over the valley below, making for a breathtaking view for morning coffee. There are plethora of bird species that make themselves known. We also saw deer, rabbits and raccoons.

The front deck has another beautiful view of the rolling hills of the farm and the sunset. It is a working farm, so there is activity going on from sunrise to sundown, but the cabin is situated on the farm to where the work is several hundred yards away and you don't feel your privacy is threatened. In fact, we enjoyed watching and hearing some of the activity, including the hay cutting and baling in the valley below and hearing the cows mooing in the distance.

The owners are great family folks, with four generations of them around while we were there. There were very responsive to our needs, including fixing a little hot tub issue within an hour of being contacted and setting up a canoe trip for us, where they transported us up the river a few miles and we floated down to the farm's spot on the river below our cabin, where they picked us up and dropped us off at our cabin. Talk about an easy float trip!

Our time in the Steelville area was filled with activity in the immediate and surrounding areas. In addition to the river sports available, Steelville has a music theater (www.meramecmusictheatre.com - 10 minutes from the cabin) that has various acts coming in most weeks. There are several golf courses nearby. State parks and national forests are 30/45 minutes away. We toured caves and an old grist mill. We even went the 1.5 hours into St. Louis twice to catch a couple of Cardinal games. Steellville and the nearby towns of Cuba and St. James all have plenty of shopping and restaurants available.

So, we HIGHLY recommend this cabin, keeping in mind the tech caveats mentioned above.