-  8 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, and space for up to 16 guests!

Perfect for family reunions, multi-family vacations or corporate retreats!

The property is only three miles from the ocean.  Only a short drive from the CAT Ferry terminal and the Yarmouth Airport (25 minutes).

Lake view from the lodge

View of the lodge complex from below

A TYPICAL DAY AT THE LODGE

You wake to the sound of the loons calling to each other across your private lake.  Lying in bed you watch a bald eagle sail high above the mist over the lake; another day in paradise.  Breakfast is pancakes (made with the blueberries you collected yesterday) in front of the wood stove.

There are decisions to be made: will you spend the day hiking along the wooded trails, trout fishing the rushing streams, or kayaking up to the millpond to check on the resident beavers?  Perhaps it would be nice to spend a few hours sailing around the lake in one of the two sunfish or swimming out to the swim dock.

After the morning activities, everyone gathers together again to have lunch in the gazebo overlooking Randal’s lake.  In the afternoon, some of you decide to take a scenic drive along Lobster Bay to the ocean (3 miles away) and stop at the Acadian museum in West Pubnico to learn about the local history in this predominantly French Acadian region.  Others choose to play a round of golf at the local course.

Home again for pre-dinner gin and tonics on the hillside with some smoked scallops from your neighbor, Will Nickerson, the fish smoker (1 mile away - Finyves of Nova Scotia).  You send the kids out to pick salad greens and beets from the vegetable garden to add to the lobster dinner.  You reminisce about the day’s memories in the grand lodge over dinner.

After dinner, you spend some time working the jigsaw puzzle that you are intent on finishing, and then decide to play a game of scrabble with some of your friends while your children read their books snuggled on the couches in front of the roaring lodge fire.

“The place is one of nature’s beauty spots. Situated on a broad hill overlooking Randal’s Lake, it presents to the view of observers the most lovely and picturesque scenery.”  (Historical Sketch of the Argyles, 1941).  Imagine stepping back in time and spending a week with family and friends on a 1200-acre private estate in a grand hunting lodge sitting on a hill overlooking your own 300-acre private lake.  The lodge, built in 1931, has retained its historic charm, complete with the original water tower (fully functional, but no longer used).  While it is not used as a hunting lodge any more, most of the furnishings and decorations are original.  Babe Ruth came hunting and fishing and purportedly left his fishing rod at the lodge in the mid-1930’s.  During the 1950’s gala lobster-bake parties were held for the annual Wedgeport Tuna Competitions, and tuna fishing teams converged on the lodge from around the world.  Since the 1970’s the lodge has been used as a family summer vacation compound.  We invite you to come enjoy the pastoral beauty, the rustic magnificence, and the slow pace of life at Randal’s lake with your family and friends.

Facilities included with your rental:

• Two sunfish sailboats
• A canoe
• A kayak
• A rowboat
• Children and adult life jackets
• Three mountain bikes (with helmets)
• Ping Pong table with paddles
• Fully equiped kitchen
• Washer/Dryer
• Charcoal grill and charcoal smoker
• Lobster pits and lobster bake pots
• All necessary towels and linens
• Radio and CD player
• Keyboard for those who like to tickle the ivories
• Full collection of games and jigsaw puzzles
• Large vegetable garden for gathering dinner treats.
• Flower garden for fresh-cut flowers

We have intentionally not put any screens (TV/DVD, etc.) in the lodge to encourage more group/family activities in the evenings, but feel free to bring portable DVD players if you so choose.