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

We offer you a chill spot with comfortable seating all around to spend your afternoon, dive into a good book or the newspaper, enjoy some iced tea in the sun, or hang out with other guests for a fun chat. Discover our stunning, untamed meadow featuring a fire pit right behind the cottages. Perfect for roasting hot dogs and crafting delicious S’mores after a day of fun at the sandy beaches. Hop on your bike and cruise into Frankfort along the Betsie Valley Trail. Grab some essentials and enjoy a meal al fresco at your cottage. But save room for dinner at one of the numerous restaurants and for an ice cream while window shopping. Forget about soda machines, ice dispensers, phones, or air conditioning—none of that here! A Tour of What to Expect

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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