A 1776 saltbox at the centre of a 14-acre Black Mountain property in Jackson Village, with the Main Inn, four cottages, the converted Sugar House (the two-bedroom honeymoon cottage), the AVEDA spa, the indoor and outdoor pools, and the candlelit dining room running the New England prix-fixe.
"The 1776 saltbox at the heart of the property does not over-play the Christmas name, but the Aveda spa, the indoor pool, and the Sugar House two-bedroom cottage all earn their billing."
Christmas Farm Inn occupies a 1776 saltbox farmhouse on what is now Blitzen Way (the property's private street, off Black Mountain Road) in Jackson Village. The saltbox was the original Currier family farmhouse, one of the oldest surviving residential structures in the Mount Washington Valley; the farm operated as a working dairy and sheep farm through the late nineteenth century and was sold in 1946 to the Maguire family as a Christmas gift, the inn's name dates from that 1946 deed.
The property is fourteen acres of pasture, orchard, and woodland on the lower flank of Black Mountain, the Jackson Village alpine ski area; the inn's reception, dining room, and four guestrooms occupy the original 1776 saltbox, with two adjoining wings (the Lodge and the Carriage House) running the additional sixteen guestrooms. Four cottages (the Mistletoe, the Snowflake, the Sleigh Bell, the Reindeer) and the two-bedroom Sugar House, the converted nineteenth-century sap house at the back of the property, the inn's signature accommodation, round out the inventory at thirty-six rooms total across the property.
The dining programme is the inn's anchor. The Mistletoe Pub on the ground floor of the saltbox runs the casual menu (the burger, the fish-and-chips, the New England chowder); the candlelit Christmas Farm Dining Room next door runs a four-course prix-fixe nightly, with the menu rotating to the season and the wine list at one hundred and eighty bins. Breakfast, the inn's full New England programme of eggs, pancakes, and the maple-sausage hash, is included in the room rate.
The Aveda spa occupies the lower level of the Lodge wing, with five treatment rooms, a couples suite, a sauna, and the property's FarmHouse Fresh skin-care programme; the heated indoor pool and the seasonal outdoor pool both run year-round (the outdoor pool drained November through April). The property's wedding programme, Christmas Farm hosts up to forty weddings annually in the Pavilion and on the front lawn, runs Friday through Sunday from May through October; Tuesday-through-Thursday bookings in the wedding season are quieter and frequently the smart honeymoon pattern. Wi-Fi runs property-wide, the cell coverage is reliable, and the inn is dog-friendly in the cottage inventory (the Mistletoe and the Reindeer accept dogs at $35 per night).
The Sugar House two-bedroom cottage (the converted nineteenth-century maple-sap house at the back of the property, with the gas fireplace, the soaking tub, the private deck onto the orchard) is the anniversary booking. The four-course prix-fixe in the candlelit dining room, the Aveda couples ritual, and the inn's quiet weekday cadence (Tuesday through Thursday) outside the wedding season make the milestone-anniversary stay properly private.
For the country-inn honeymoon on a long-weekend cadence, the post-wedding decompression rather than the long-haul resort variant, the Sugar House or the Reindeer Cottage at Christmas Farm is correctly calibrated. Adults-only is not a property-wide policy (the inn hosts families) but the cottages are set away from the main inn block; the Aveda couples ritual, the four-course dining, and the indoor pool make the long-weekend honeymoon programme work.
The Lodge wing's Two-Queen Suite category and the Mistletoe Cottage (three bedrooms, full kitchen, fireplace) absorb the multi-generation family booking. Black Mountain alpine ski area is at the door (the property is two minutes from the Black Mountain Lodge), the indoor pool and the seasonal outdoor pool run the children's amenity programme, the dining-room children's menu is competent. The inn's wedding-day Friday-and-Saturday cadence in season is a consideration; Sunday-through-Thursday family bookings work better.
3 Blitzen Way
Jackson, NH 03846
United States
Black Mountain Road · Jackson; Mount Washington Valley; Portland International Jetport 125 minutes; Manchester-Boston Regional 110 minutes; Boston Logan 175 minutes
36 rooms across 1776 saltbox, Lodge, Carriage House, four cottages, and Sugar House
Standard Inn Room from $219/night
Lodge Two-Queen Suite from $279/night
Reindeer Cottage from $349/night
Sugar House Two-Bedroom Cottage from $549/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
1776 Currier family saltbox; renamed Christmas Farm in 1946; current ownership since 2017; Aveda spa partner since 2006; dog-friendly in select cottages
AVEDA spa (five treatment rooms, couples suite)
Heated indoor pool (year-round) and seasonal outdoor pool
Mistletoe Pub and candlelit Christmas Farm Dining Room (four-course prix-fixe)
One hundred and eighty-bin wine list
Wedding pavilion (capacity 150)
Fourteen-acre Black Mountain property
FarmHouse Fresh skin-care programme
Free Wi-Fi (property-wide)
From $219 / night, full New England breakfast included. The Sugar House Two-Bedroom Cottage books five to six months ahead for the foliage window (late September to mid-October) and the December-22-through-January-2 holiday window; the Reindeer and Mistletoe cottages clear three to four months out for the same windows. Mid-week (Tuesday through Thursday) shoulder-season rates run twenty percent below the weekend equivalent.
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