I visited The Rusted Route yesterday for a cousins possible wedding venue. I'm am from San Francisco , and was completely surprised by the beauty of this property. It was equal to the many of the high end weddings that I have been to in Napa, Sonoma and Santa Barbara. The details of the property and artistry of the buildings (especially the barn) were on point and like they were out of a magazine. I got to meet the owner and he was truly an in visionary young man who by the looks of it will change Cape Girardeau for the better. Highly recommend checking it out for yourself! read more

I do not recommend this place. My family and I rented two of their rentals through Airbnb. We were planning a small engagement party for my daughter and her fiance. I tried to rent their market building as well. We spoke to people at the location and they told us the building was available to rent. They were supposed to get back to us the next day by 2:00 pm. No one ever called us back. We finally received a call back while we were driving to Missouri from Illinois two weeks later. Thankfully I found a hall I could rent to throw the party. Next the houses. I rented the log cabin and my family rented the farmhouse. Both houses were filthy dirty. I had to clean the oven, the oven hood, the refrigerator, the showers. The beds had someone else's hair in them. I found a used coffee pod in the Keurig and gross water in the water container. There was blood on a pillow in the upstairs bedroom. The backyard was disgusting. We had to scrub the grill because it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. The outdoor cushions had bird poop all over them and hadn't been cleaned ever. I was going to take the covers off the cushions and wash them myself but I was afraid they would fall apart from dry rot. Now the other house. First my family couldn't get into the house with the passcode that was given, so my stepmother had to climb through a window to get in the house. There was blood in one of the beds that my nephew was going to sleep in. The shower in the primary bathroom was leaking water constantly and they wouldn't fix it. The shower in the other bathroom didn't work. There were bugs everywhere in the farm house. Now both houses had problems with the TV's and the internet. I have rented numerous Airbnb's and have never gotten a bad review from anyone, now this place wants to say I was a bad fit for their property. I cleaned their freaking house and left it cleaner than what it was when I arrived. I was nice in the review I gave them because I never want to give a business a bad review, because I don't want to be the cause of them losing business. But after what I read what they wrote about my family the gloves are off. I was warned by several other businesses in the area that The Rusted Route has terrible communication with their guests and that they had zero housekeeping skills but I didn't let that overshadow our stay there. I thought I would be nice and give them a good review but now F that. They get ZERO stars from me and I hope anyone thinking of renting this place for vacation or wedding or whatever think twice about this place. I can't give ZERO stars but that is what they deserve. They don't even deserve this one star that I have to give in order to post my review. P.S. I was also told by other people who are very familiar with The Rusted Route that they have terrible food. I didn't eat any food from there so I can't be the judge of that. Just a heads up for anyone thinking about have their wedding or party there. read more