What a magical gem to discover within an hour of home! I love camping, but I don’t love the hassle of packing/setting up camp/breaking down camp/packing/unloading/cleaning/reorganizing/etc for next time….especially not for a short trip and especially not with the whole family in tow (am I right, mamas?)

This place is perfect. It’s not really a cabin, more of a fancier lean-to. Three walls and a proper roof! It has a pull down shade wall (Bill’s cabin, anyway), camp mattresses on simple plywood bed frames, lanterns, a solar panel to power string lights and recharge batteries, a dedicated propane camp stove and propane, utensils, plates/bowls/cups, a coffee French press, a fire ring and chairs. Truly we brought clothes, toiletries, food, a pillow, a sleeping bag and games, the rest stayed home. I wouldn’t want to brave it when lows start being sub-freezing, but I want to find every excuse to go back April-Nov!

We got a camping experience that wasn’t an overpriced cabin, which isn’t really camping anyway. And we didn’t have to schlep all the usual things that turn an otherwise pleasant weekend into another chore.

This feels strange to say, but even the outhouse was cute (port a potty with a cedar shed built around it).

My only real disappointment was the water situation. There is a bucket of non-potable water attached to a gravity filter. For 2 days it was barely enough. If we’d had more plate-needy food we would not have had enough water to wash and drink and we were only 3 people for 2 nights. Bill’s Cabin is supposedly set up for 7 people. It was already not quite sufficient so I can’t imagine trying to accommodate 7 on that amount of water.