Ours is an old-fashioned place with old-fashioned hospitality.

Come, stay and relax. What we offer you is space, comfortable seating everywhere for whiling away the afternoon, reading a good book or the newspaper, sipping some iced tea in the sunshine, or get together with other guests for a chat. We have a beautiful, wild meadow with a fire pit behind the cottages, where you roast hot dogs and make S'mores after a long day at the sandy beaches. Take your bicycle into Frankfort, on the Betsie Valley Trail, buy some supplies and have breakfast or lunch outside of your cottage. We would be happy to set up a fishing charter, reserve a rental canoe/kayak, bicycle or motor scooter, or make dinner reservations for you at one of the fabulous restaurants in the area. What you won't find here are soft drink or ice machines, telephones, or air conditioners.

These photos are from 2012 when the lake level was somewhere in the middle of its six-foot range. The lake can rise and fall each year, so there might be less or more beach on any given year. As much as we'd like to, unfortunately, we have no control over that (talk to "the Man" in charge). We have access to this lovely community beach when it is available. Guests have stayed here for more than 100 years, now, and the beach was always accessible by scooting down the 125-foot cliff. But when the stairs were finally built by six men from the village, including two from my family, it was an event that needed to be celebrated by letting everyone see it on our Web site.

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