My husband, 3 kids, 2 dogs, and I stayed at Moon Creek Cabin over Thanksgiving 2020. We had an amazing, peaceful, quiet vacation. The cabin had everything that we needed from all the kitchen necessities to clean towels/linens and lots of pre-cut firewood. One of the chairs in the living room is a bit beat up, but it didn't affect our stay. The Netflix signal was a bit unreliable...but I think that's what you get when you're wanting peace and quiet in nature.
When the owners say you need AWD or 4 Wheel Drive in the winter months......they are not kidding. This cabin is all the way at the end of an uphill dirt road and when we went, 3-5 inches of snow had fallen before we arrived. Our Explorer had zero issues. However, my daughter's Forte was on the struggle bus .....it made it about .2 miles from the cabin and then we had to get creative. We did make it up, but her car stayed put until we left to head back to Kansas.
Nederland and Black Hawk/Central City are very close and have a lot of places to visit even during COVID. We shopped in Nederland and ate at Busey Brews (delish!). And we visited a couple casinos in Black Hawk to pass some time one day.
Lastly, Rhea and her husband went OUT OF THEIR WAY to help us. We left to head back to KC and about 2.5 hours from the cabin, we noticed my laptop bag (with my work laptop!) had been left. I called Rhea and told her husband about the situation. They went out to the cabin, got the laptop bag, and left it at her work in Nederland. This saved us at least an hour in backtracking to the cabin. I couldn't have been more grateful to their kindness during that stressful event.
We would definitely stay here again and we recommend this to anyone who wants peace and solitude up in the mountains!!