Morning sun breaking through the indigenous forest canopy at Hog Hollow Country Lodge, The Crags

The Crags · Garden Route

Wilderness at the door.Warmth just inside.

A private nature reserve where indigenous forest meets the Tsitsikamma Mountains, eighteen kilometres from Plettenberg Bay.

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5 minutes from the N2,
and then, silence.

Hog Hollow Country Lodge has kept its place inside a private nature reserve since 1993, close enough to Plettenberg Bay for an easy drive and far enough to forget it exists. Indigenous forest presses close on every side, and the Tsitsikamma Mountains hold the skyline above Matjies River Gorge. Nothing here is built to compete with that scale. It is built to let you stand inside it, and then come back to a fire.

The approach to Hog Hollow Country Lodge through indigenous forest

The reserveForest on every side.
Closer than you’d think.

Ours is not a lodge you pass on the way to somewhere else. Askop Road is tarmac the whole way, just 5 minutes off the N2, birdsong and the occasional bushbuck for company, indigenous canopy closing overhead until the lodge appears like a clearing kept just for you.

A Forest Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge, with fireplace and private deck

The Suites

Two ways to sleep
deep in the forest

The Duplex Suites rise over two levels, room enough for a family to spread out or for two people to keep their distance from everything but the fire. The Forest Suites keep it all on one level, with private viewing decks built for slow mornings and long views, and some interleave for groups travelling together. Every Forest Suite has its own fireplace and a deck over the valley.

Choose betweenDuplex Suites & Forest Suites

In every suiteFireplace* & private deck

OutlookTsitsikamma Mountains

*For child safety, the family friendly Duplex Suites have electric heating instead of fireplaces.

Where you’ll stay

Suites built around
fire and forest

A Duplex Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge

Two Levels · Families & HoneymoonsDuplex SuitesRoom enough for the whole party, or space for two to keep the view to themselves.

A Forest Suite at Hog Hollow Country Lodge

One Level · Interleading OptionsForest SuitesA private deck, a wood fire, a king bed and forest pressing at the glass.

Guests gathered at the fire-pit Boma at Hog Hollow Country Lodge in the evening

The BomaA fire that has not
gone out since the start.

Mornings, the Boma is where the lodge wakes up: coffee poured before check-in, birdsong instead of traffic, plans for the day made over a low flame.

Every evening, guests walk down to the Boma as the light goes copper over the gorge. Sundowners come out before dinner: communal benches, wood smoke, a drink in hand, and nowhere you need to be until the dining room calls.

The Pool

Still water,
deep forest

The pool deck opens onto uninterrupted views of the valley and the Tsitsikamma Mountains beyond, the obvious place for slow afternoons between forest walks and sundowners at the Boma.