Forty acres · Ten places
Walk the whole basin.
Everything below sits inside one boundary, and for the length of a booking there is nobody else inside it. Start at the lodge on the water and work outward.
- Land
- 40 acres
- Water
- 1 private lake
- Sleeping
- 20 in buildings + 30 camping
- Capacity
- 220 guests
The Lodge
The Hoovers cut the logs where they stood, peeled them by hand, and milled what they could on site — siding, trim, doors, the bar in the saloon. It took eight summers to make it liveable. Nothing about the building was ordered from a catalogue.
Inside: five bedroom suites and a loft, five and a half bathrooms, two full kitchens, a stone hearth under open trusses, and copper soaking tubs set in windows that look at nothing but granite and water. Sixteen guests sleep here before anyone pitches a tent.
- Footprint
- 5,000 sq ft
- Bedrooms
- 5 suites + loft
- Bathrooms
- 5.5
- Kitchens
- Two, both full
- Sleeps
- 16 plus the couple
The Saloon
False front, tin roof, boardwalk. The bar came out of the same trees as the lodge. There is a pool table, an air hockey table, and a room that has never once been asked to close at eleven.
Upstairs there are two more bedrooms, a bath and a kitchenette — the four extra beds that turn sixteen into twenty. The wifi lives here too, which is the closest thing to a phone signal on the property.
- Bar
- Milled on site
- Upstairs
- 2 rooms, 1 bath, kitchenette
- Games
- Pool + air hockey
- Wifi
- Yes — here, and only here
- Last call
- There isn’t one
The Lake
The water sits in a bowl of glacier-polished granite. It is swimmable through the summer, deep enough to jump into off the rocks, and quiet enough at six in the morning to hold a perfect mirror of the lodge.
There are canoes. Fishing is catch and release. In the evening, the whole basin turns the colour of the granite and everybody ends up on the dock without being asked to.
- Access
- Private — property only
- Swimming
- Yes, all summer
- Boats
- Canoes on site
- Fishing
- Catch and release
- Neighbours
- National forest
The Hot Tub
It is not a hot tub in the way that phrase usually means. It is a heated pool set into the bedrock at the lake’s edge, holds thirty, and looks straight down the basin.
It is also, reliably, where the wedding ends up at one in the morning.
- Capacity
- 30 people
- Build
- Cut into natural granite
- Heat
- Yes, year round
- Outlook
- The lake, the whole way
The Reception Ground
Farm tables and two hundred chairs live here permanently, along with fifteen oak wine barrels, four wooden buffet tables, eight outdoor heaters, two fire pits and two bathtubs that exist purely to be filled with ice.
The caterer gets a real kitchen in the bunkhouse. You get three restrooms on the ground and a dance floor thirty feet from the tables. Nothing has to be trucked in and set up from zero.
- Seats
- 200, provided
- Dance hall
- 30 ft × 70 ft, covered
- Restrooms
- 3 on the reception ground
- Kitchen
- Caterer’s kitchen, bunkhouse
- Sound
- 2 PA systems, ceremony + reception
The Ceremony Sites
The meadow seats a hundred and forty to a hundred and sixty on log benches, with an aisle of wildflowers most of July. The granite site puts you on polished rock above the water with the whole basin behind you. There is a timber arbor, and there is the dock.
Walk all of them on Thursday. Decide by Friday. That is the point of having the property for five days.
- Sites
- Multiple, choose on arrival
- Log benches
- Seats approx. 140–160
- Capacity
- Up to 220 guests
- Power
- Yes, at the wedding site
- Curfew
- None
The Lookout
Set apart from the lodge and higher up, The Lookout is glass on the downhill side and looks over the lake, the granite and the treeline. It has its own living room, kitchen, laundry and bedrooms.
Most couples give it to the parents. Some keep it for themselves and let the party have the lodge.
- Position
- Ridge above the lake
- Kitchen
- Full, private
- Outlook
- The entire basin
- Booking
- Enquire separately
The Camp
Thirty adults can camp on the property as part of a wedding booking. There is a purpose-built shower and restroom facility for campers, and space for small RVs and trailers.
Several outfitters will set the meadow with furnished bell tents, real beds and linen the day before you arrive. Their details are in the register.
- Campers
- 30 adults
- Facilities
- Shower + restroom building
- RVs
- Small rigs, limited
- Firewood
- Provided
- Glamping
- By arrangement — see register
The Coffee Cabin
Aimee’s Coffee Cabin is a real, hand-built coffee trailer. Two hours of service on the wedding day is part of the booking — most couples run it after the ceremony, or at eleven at night when the dance floor needs it more.
- Included
- 2 hours on the wedding day
- Timing
- Yours to choose
- Extra hours
- Direct with Aimee
The Road In
You do not need four-wheel drive. You do need vans rather than coaches: full-size buses cannot take Hideout Road or Puckerbutt Hill. Shuttle operators who know the route are in the register.
Reno and Sacramento are both about three hours out. Kirkwood Mountain Resort — the nearest beds off the property — is twelve miles up the highway.
- From Highway 88
- ≈15 minutes
- 4WD
- Not required
- Buses
- Vans only
- Nearest airports
- Reno / Sacramento, ≈3 hrs
- Nearest grocery
- 30–35 miles
The Survey · Sheet 02
How the reception ground lays out.
This is the arrangement that works best for large groups — the plan most couples start from and then change. Tables, dance hall, bar, coffee cabin, catering and restrooms all sit inside a hundred paces of each other.
Everything shown is on site and included. If you want it somewhere else, we will move it.
Come and see it
Photographs undersell this place.
Every couple who books has walked it first. Ask about an open house, or arrange a private visit.