A 1937 riverside cabin, updated for comfort, unchanged in character.
The cottage sits on a bend in the lower Oak Orchard, where the river widens and slows just enough to hold fish through every season. A wood floor that creaks in three known places. A screen door that slams the way it should, every time, and a wraparound deck that catches the morning sun on its eastern run and the last gold of the day on its western.
It was built in 1937 as a fishing camp and has been carrying that brief — quiet, durable, comfortable — under three generations of the same family ever since. The kitchen is a real kitchen: gas range, full-size fridge, a knife sharp enough to fillet what you bring back. The bedrooms are warm and uncomplicated. The bathroom is small and the water pressure is excellent.
Anglers come for the steelhead and stay because their kids found a frog in the rocks. Families come for a long weekend and end up booking the same three nights every July. There is no better word for it than what guests keep using in the reviews: honest.
The cottage is small on purpose. Everything in it earns its spot — the kitchen actually cooks, the deck actually wraps, the dock is actually yours. No upsells, no gimmicks.
Cook your catch. Gas stove, full-size oven, fridge with freezer, drip coffee. Cast iron, sharp knives, the works.
Morning coffee on the east face. Evening sunsets on the west. 180° of river and woods, with Adirondack chairs and a fire bowl.
Stone pit at the water's edge with bench seating for six. Stars above, river below. Wood is stacked near the deck.
Sturdy planks, two dock chairs, and a cleat for your boat. The boathouse sits at the bottom of a stoned path behind the main house.
A flat stretch of river bank below the boathouse with plenty of room to fish from shore. The water in front of our property is too deep to wade — most fishermen use the public access at St. Mary's Archers Club, less than a mile up the road.
Photographed early autumn, mid-week, with no styling tricks. What you see is what you walk into when the door unlocks.
The cottage doesn't sit at the river's edge — but the river isn't far. From the cottage door to the boathouse is roughly two-tenths of a mile, in two stretches. Here's exactly how you get there.
Stand in the road looking at the front of the cottage — the stoned driveway is to your left. You'll pass the cottage next door, then a garden area, then you'll reach the driveway. When you see the house with the silo, you're at the right one.
Where the driveway wraps around behind the house, you'll see the path down to the river. It's steep, but stoned and flat underfoot — easy walking. At the bottom, go right and you'll run straight into the boathouse and docks.
Beyond the boathouse, the land opens into a flat 2-acre stretch with plenty of river frontage to fish from shore. The water in front of our property is too deep to wade — most fishermen who want to wade out use the public access at St. Mary's Archers Club instead, less than a mile up the road.
Check-in, rules, the address, and the things you'd otherwise have to email us about. We try to make the boring questions easy to find.
Book direct from us and skip the service fee — same nights, same cottage. Most weekends fill four to six weeks out; Salmon season starts filling a year out.
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