No smoking here except in the fireplace, no fireworks at all.. No air conditioning: don't need it.
Big breeze, broad view through tall trees. Eagle, Osprey, Vulture, Grouse, and Loon: all birds stop here.
Our entire island with cottages and cabins are available for rent by the week, from June 15 through September 15.
There are a few rules on our private island (such as, no smoking), but we will depend on your own good judgement to keep the island whole for those to come, and for their children's children.
The sand bottom slopes off from our beach so gradually that small children can safely splash about there as you build sand castles or play volley ball in the shallows.
Rates and Facilities
Rentals by the week are:
FOR ONE WEEK FROM MONDAY TO MONDAY
$3000 for a family rental includes exclusive use of Loon Island with additional small island, two cottages and 2 sleeping cabins, tree house,
canoe and rowboat, large private sandy bottom swimming area with floating dock ,private swim and bathing dock, and a second dock for boats. .
Payment of 1/2 of rental fee is required to make a reservation,
with no refund after June 1. Final payment due 2 weeks before rental date.
This is a family place, rather than a party spot. We do not have parking for large groups. Ten of you is more than enough, even if two of you are only small dogs.
You can drive to within fifty yards of our beach and walk across it to the island. We have swimming and sunning rafts, plus a dock for small boats in the sheltered bay behind our beach. We are not well adapted to large power boats, and not particularly friendly to jet boats, but you can bring your own small water craft, or use our canoe or row boat. We have a small boat dock you can use but you can't use our boat house, because the beavers have built a lodge in it and we have given it over to them. You may see them in the mornings and evenings.
Bonaparte is a clear, sweet-water lake undamaged by the acid rain (which falls mainly on the other side of the Adirondack Mountains) and there are plenty of fish here. Trout and Salmon are deep during warm weather, but in Summer you will see Large Mouth and Small Mouth Bass, Northern Pike, Rock Bass, Bull Head, Pumpkin Seed and Blue Gill Sun Fish, Crappie, Yellow Perch, and Bull Heads, all of whom strongly prefer single barbless hooks, as do most doctors.
We know the lake bottom from the long ago jig-line soundings of Grandfather Failing and Doc Howe, so we have some idea where the fish are.
Although David's loyalty is primarily to the fish, he could theoretically direct our guests to certian Bonaparte (and Oswegathie) fish haunts..... in case you want to join the fishes.
Rentals by the week are:
FOR ONE WEEK FROM MONDAY TO MONDAY
$3000 for a family rental includes exclusive use of Loon Island with additional small island, two cottages and 2 sleeping cabins, tree house,
canoe and rowboat, large private sandy bottom swimming area with floating dock ,private swim and bathing dock, and a second dock for boats. .
Payment of 1/2 of rental fee is required to make a reservation ,with no refund after June 1. Final payment due 2 weeks before rental date.
There is ordinarily nothing much for you to do here on Loon Island.
We have sand, water, rocks and trees, birds and beasts , books and maps, plus a lot of world war II era National Geographics... but if you really want something to do, you should probably bring it with you or go somewhere else.
Dogs do not find this to be a problem, and we welcome their kind.
Way to the Island
The paths that lead to and wander the island are scenic but rough and rocky, as is any woods path in the Adirondacks, so we are not wheel-chair acessable and the way is not safe for unassisted infirm people, or for any dark-of -night guest arrivals. In Saturday before seven p.m. and after three , except by arrangement; out Sunday before seven p.m. When you have reserved some time on the island, we will send you detailed instructions for finding your way to us.