One membership to unlock exclusive benefits throughout The Five Forty.
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Become a member
It only takes a minute and for $50/year it's a no-brainer.
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Download the app
Take your membership with you wherever you go.
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Enjoy your benefits
Redeem exclusive offers from the best businesses around.
Enjoy The Best More Often
Member pricing at the restaurants, cafés, and shops you already choose.
A Reason To Finally Go
New businesses are added as they're approved. Follow the ones you want and we'll tell you before an offer ends.
Know Where To Go
Browse by category, search by name, or open the map and see what's near you.
Shape Your Community
Vote with your wallet and support businesses striving to do high-quality and meaningful work.
Not every business makes the list.
Every business is reviewed before it's admitted. We look for independents doing careful work, and we say no to the rest.
Eat like you know someone.
Member pricing at the valley's independent kitchens, cafés, bakeries, breweries, and vineyards.
- The member price at every restaurant and café on the list, every visit
- Taprooms, tasting rooms, and cider houses — not just dinner
- The occasional set menu or pairing on top of the standing offer
- Follow a favorite and we'll tell you before an offer ends
Discover Benefits
Keep the good habit.
Member rates at the studios, spas, and practitioners doing careful work in the valley.
- Member pricing on class packs, memberships, and single visits
- The member rate on treatments at the spas and practitioners on the list
- Studios added as they're approved — no chains
- Every visit logged, so the year adds up somewhere you can see it
Discover Benefits
The valley is the point.
Member pricing on the courses, outfitters, and indoor standbys that fill a weekend here.
- Member pricing on green fees and rentals at the courses on the list
- Member rates on climbing, paddling, and outfitters
- Indoor options for the weather that comes with the mountains
- New this week and expiring soon, surfaced before you miss them
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Buy it from a person.
Member pricing at the boutiques, bookshops, and makers who keep the valley's main streets open.
- The member price at every shop on the list
- Bookstores, boutiques, antiques, home, and specialty makers
- Independents only — every shop reviewed before it joins
- Where you spend it stays here
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Someone local, at the member rate.
The trades and practices you only need occasionally — and want to get right when you do.
- Member pricing on auto, home, and property services
- Vetted the same way as everyone else on the list
- Search by name or open the map when something breaks
- One place to find someone you'd actually recommend
Discover Benefits
Eat like you know someone.
Member pricing at the valley's independent kitchens, cafés, bakeries, breweries, and vineyards.
- The member price at every restaurant and café on the list, every visit
- Taprooms, tasting rooms, and cider houses — not just dinner
- The occasional set menu or pairing on top of the standing offer
- Follow a favorite and we'll tell you before an offer ends
Discover Benefits
Keep the good habit.
Member rates at the studios, spas, and practitioners doing careful work in the valley.
- Member pricing on class packs, memberships, and single visits
- The member rate on treatments at the spas and practitioners on the list
- Studios added as they're approved — no chains
- Every visit logged, so the year adds up somewhere you can see it
Discover Benefits
The valley is the point.
Member pricing on the courses, outfitters, and indoor standbys that fill a weekend here.
- Member pricing on green fees and rentals at the courses on the list
- Member rates on climbing, paddling, and outfitters
- Indoor options for the weather that comes with the mountains
- New this week and expiring soon, surfaced before you miss them
Discover Benefits
Buy it from a person.
Member pricing at the boutiques, bookshops, and makers who keep the valley's main streets open.
- The member price at every shop on the list
- Bookstores, boutiques, antiques, home, and specialty makers
- Independents only — every shop reviewed before it joins
- Where you spend it stays here
Discover Benefits
Someone local, at the member rate.
The trades and practices you only need occasionally — and want to get right when you do.
- Member pricing on auto, home, and property services
- Vetted the same way as everyone else on the list
- Search by name or open the map when something breaks
- One place to find someone you'd actually recommend
Discover Benefits
Exceptional businesses are welcome here.
The list is built one business at a time, each reviewed before it joins. If yours does careful work in the valley, we'd like to hear from you.
Apply to join the list
Exceptional businesses are welcome here.
The list is built one business at a time, each reviewed before it joins. If yours does careful work in the valley, we'd like to hear from you.
Apply to join the listMade for the people who live here.
One membership, however you spend your week in the valley.
You already know where the good coffee is.
You have your Saturday spot, your standing Friday table, the shop where they know the order. Membership makes those cost less — and points you at the few places you somehow still haven't tried.
- Your usual, at the member rate: The places already in your week, at member pricing every visit
- The ones you've missed: New businesses land on the list as they're approved — with a reason to finally go
- Nothing expires quietly: Follow a favorite and we'll tell you before an offer ends
- A record of the year: Every redemption logged, so you can see where the year actually went
The valley, on a student's terms.
Four years is long enough to find the real places. Membership is the shortcut — coffee, food, haircuts, and gear at member pricing, from the independents rather than the strip.
- Coffee and food, first: The cafés and kitchens near campus, at the member rate
- One price for the year: $50, paid once, good until it renews
- Bring the group: Earn 10% back every year each person you refer stays
- Off-campus, properly: Twenty-five categories, from bookstores to bike repair
A shortcut to knowing the place.
Moving somewhere new means a year of guessing. The list is the part you'd otherwise have to earn — every business on it already reviewed by someone who lives here.
- Start with the map: Open it and see what's near you, sorted by what you need
- Vetted before you arrive: Every business reviewed and approved — no guessing which is which
- The whole valley: Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro and the towns between them
- Reasons to leave the house: Trending, new this week, and expiring soon — surfaced for you
Have Questions?
How membership works, what it costs, and how a business joins the list.
Get in touchAn annual membership unlocking exclusive benefits from the businesses shaping the Shenandoah Valley. Every business is reviewed before it joins the list, and members pay less at all of them.
$50 a year. One membership, one price — no tiers and no add-ons. It renews annually and you can cancel anytime from your account.
Member pricing at every business on the list, across twenty-five categories from restaurants and coffee to auto and antiques. You also get a record of what you've redeemed through the year, alerts before an offer you follow ends, and 10% of every membership you refer — $5 on a full-price year, and again each year they stay.
Immediately. Checkout takes a minute and your benefits are live the moment you're done.
No — and that's deliberate. We're building this one valley at a time, which is the only way the review standard means anything.
Open the business or offer in the app and redeem it at the counter. Every redemption is recorded, so your savings for the year live in one place instead of a drawer full of receipts.
It applies, and we review it. We look for independents doing careful work in the valley — and we say no to the rest. If that sounds like yours, apply and we'll be in touch.
Because it's cool to care about where you live.
$50 a year · Shenandoah Valley