Welcome to The Inn on Lake Champlain, the heart of the Adirondack's largest grass-based farming and wilderness preservation project.

Deluxe accommodations and stellar horseback riding experiences support organic farming and antique structure rehabilitation on historic farmland overlooking Lake Champlain.

VICTORIAN FARMHOUSE COMFORT & STYLE

Book direct for the best rates, from $140/night!

We offer four meticulously clean guest bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and 600 ct. cotton bedding, two parlors, a formal dining room, a wrap-around porch and other outdoor seating.

Guests enjoy period American Chestnut millwork, spotless hardwood floors, and refined decor including our collection of original and antique artwork inspired by the natural beauty of the Adirondacks and its agrarian history.

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IRRESISTABLE BREAKFASTS

Our beautiful farm-to-table breakfast from the freshest seasonal, local, natural, and organic ingredients is served at 8 o'clock.

Breakfast is served on pretty antique English transfer-ware, depicting historic New York tall ship scenes and consists of decadent chocolate éclairs, savory, fresh breakfast breads, crêpes, french toast, pancakes, fruit tarts, crème brûlée, quiche, cinnamon buns, Monte Cristo, streusel, coffee cake, scones, or another pastry, along with fresh fruit, farm-fresh eggs, and breakfast meats.

Guests can opt for an earlier start with fresh home-roasted organic coffee, tea, or espresso, homemade granola and yogurt or hot oatmeal and toppings, fresh baked bread and homemade fruit preserves, eggs made-to-order, and/or homemade pastries, and fruit (available from 7am upon request). What a start to a day of relaxation and adventure in the Adirondacks!

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We serve afternoon tea at 4pm by request, otherwise we'll be farming until you arrive as our summer workload (innkeeping, maintenance, improvements, production, animal husbandry, and horse & rider training) fills the space from 11am-4pm all too quickly.

Please arrange early check-in upon booking, or via email prior to your arrival.

"The Inn on Lake Champlain blew away my expectations! The location is simply stunning - the views of Lake Champlain are truly unforgettable. Every morning, I woke up to beautiful sunrises coming up over the Vermont mountains. The surrounding area is perfect for exploring. I went on some fantastic hikes and felt completely immersed in the beauty of the Adirondacks. The Inn itself is charming and comfortable. The horseback riding... READ MORE

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"The fresh breakfast is not to be missed. There was a wonderful family vibe when we stayed. The farm animals added to experience. I HIGHLY recommend the Inn on Lake Champlain!" READ MORE

HORSEBACK RIDING

Professional huntseat, dressage, and western instruction on sturdy, sound warmbloods, retired thoroughbreds, shetland ponies, and other beloved “eqstended" family.

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At the Inn on Lake Champlain we place great value on sustainability and preserving the health and natural beauty of the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, and Lake George. Our farm is not a monoculture but a wilderness with edges full of the native plants where rare birds, bees, and butterflies thrive. With more than 300 acres of privately owned wilderness, we have patches of moss that haven't seen human interference in more than 100 years.

Caring deeply about Earth and all her diversity is hard work - guests are more than welcome to step off the well-traveled path, onto the meandering, narrow trails of the wildlife, wade into the wilderness as a reminder of what we are all working so hard to protect.

Staying with us, you’re sure to meet likeminded individuals who pursue a healthy mind, body, and spirit through conscientious living and enjoyment of the outdoors!

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In our Victorian farmhouse, love and respect are well-rooted and we take great pride in offering our home and our friendship to a diverse array of guests. Genuine freedom is the liberty to be yourself.

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SORRY WE MISSED YOUR CALL:

When you dial our inn and farm galore,
Prepare for a greeting that may feel like a chore.
A recording so lengthy, you’ll sigh and then grin,
As it lists all the chaos we’re currently in.

“We’re mopping, we’re mowing,
we’re hanging out bed clothes,
Or chasing some cattle or wrangling some hose.
We’re carting kids to their school,
or giving some project a start,
Or putting them down as tantrums impart.
We’re fixing a tractor, or feeding our barnyard array,
Or herding our children at some holiday display.
We’re vacuuming madly, or replacing some slate,
Or running down ponies, who've rushed out the gate!
We’re dusting some rooms, or we’re covered in hay,
We’re fixing some fence, before cattle go astray.
We’re mixing some feed, for livestock well-fed,
Or we’re really exhausted, and already in bed.
So, we beg of you kindly, from our hectic state,
Check our website, dear friend,
to book your preferred date.”

Because should you, my dear,
leave a message instead,
While zooming through traffic,
wind blasting your head,
And for some reason,
through the din, you manage to speak,
But your message, alas, is garbled mystique.

Through windy static as you speed down the lane,
We’ll hear naught a bit of your number or name!
You’re shouting, but your signal's all broke,
Now you won’t get to stay with us, this isn’t a joke.

Words totally lost, chickens scattered at dawn,
We wondered aloud, "Was that Barry or Ron?"
So please don’t be shocked,
no response you’ll receive,
It’s not out of malice, please truly believe!

So, heed us, good traveler, our polite, gentle plea:
Find your answers online, where it’s clear as can be.
And kindly, we beg, don’t leave it to fate,
Book through the app,
or inquire by email to our lovely estate.

In booking online, you’ll surely find reward,
With fresh mountain air and farm-fresh accord.
Quilts in the breeze, the scent of the pines,
And breakfast that delights above pastoral confines!

 

After you've secured your preferred rooms and dates,
we hope you'll look for more comedic poetry inspired by life at our inn on our facebook page!
The Inn on Lake Champlain on facebook

OUR HISTORY

Our historic victorian farmhouse has been an Inn off-and-on since its construction in 1870.

The Inn became the heart of a busy family farm again, with our purchase in 2017. We work tirelessly to rehabilitate our new-to-us, but far from modern, historic structures and to try to integrate them into our vision of a modern farm. We hope to make the changes needed for a new generation of conscientious family farmers, without sacrificing nostalgia.

Since coming to the farm we've replaced hundreds of slates, replaced bad flashing and valleys with hundreds of pounds of fresh copper, rebuilt six huge dormers, replaced exterior siding and trim, doors, windows, and several huge beams, and gotten started on new infrastructure... whenever there's a break in our usual farming routine.

But don't worry, we always do any noisy or disruptive work while guests are out.

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Experience the Lake Champlain Region

Our guests spend their day enjoying the Lake Champlain Region’s crisp, fresh air and natural beauty: natural wonders, historic sites, and various outdoor activities, such as Fort Ticonderoga, Fort St. Frederick, Lake George's eastern hiking trails and beaches, kayak rentals, biking, or on-farm horseback riding.

We offer on-farm hiking, guests with an adventurous spirit hike across our vast farmland and wilderness to see one of the most beautiful views in the region. And, why not? We're just a short drive to the eastern beaches of Lake George to cool off afterward!

There are countless art and history museums or galleries to explore in hot or rainy weather.

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Organic Farm

Our existing and up-and-coming farm products are grass-fed beef, a huge Ameraucana free-range laying flock with some of the most beautiful hens under the sun, Jersey breeding stock and trained dairy cows, huge, friendly Anatolian Shepherd mix working dogs, trained warmblood and thoroughbred sporthorses and sporthorse prospects, and American Shetland Ponies.

All together, each year, in addition to serving our wonderful guests, we produce about 200,000 lbs. of hay, more than 1,000 dozen eggs, several huge grass-fed steers, 1-3 sporthorses, and hundreds of pounds of garden produce.

Add a farm tour to your reservation for $40/group, but don't forget your boots!

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Farm Stay

We offer a wiry old double bed with a majestic view of Lake Champlain, in a small storage/library room, complete with our half-bath/cleaning closet, for those desperate to live farm life for a month or more.

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Weddings

Lovely, pastoral sites overlooking Lake Champlain for your relaxing and inexpensive earth-friendly events.

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The Farm Family

We purchased and began to restore our farm to productive farmland and healthy woodland in 2016. Since 2017 we've been relocating our possessions and farm, livestock and equipment from SE Ohio. We’re still working on that...

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Policies

All the standard disclosures:

1. Don’t Break Things on Purpose and Other Rules...

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Share in the Misadventure

We maintain fb journals complete with loads of additional photos and tales of misadventure for those who appreciate small family operations, country life, self-sufficiency, historic barns, and all things agrarian despite any partway started green/sustainable ideas and projects, wet and muddy dogs, mucky paths, major renovation/repair projects interrupted by tractor-woes, wildflowers mixed with “weeds”, farm equipment haphazardly cluttering the timeless Adirondack landscape, and happy farm animals no matter what sort of horrible mess they make!

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Our Video Links

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