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Welcome to the Oswegatchie River Lodge.
The Oswegatchie River Lodge is a completely restored late 1800’s farm house. As with our other lodge, the Beaver Creek Lodge, it is rented as a single unit. Enjoy the peace, quiet, and absolute privacy that renting the entire house provides. Perhaps, this is what “getting away” should encompass sometimes. It has a fully stocked kitchen, living room, 3 bedrooms, bath with Jacuzzi tub/shower, a sun room with a sofa sleeper, and it can sleep up to 8  people. We provide enough BREAKFAST food for your first mornings breakfast. You cook and eat in privacy. Other AMENITIES include cable TV and high speed wireless internet. It is located in the center of a non-working 85 acre farm with over half a mile frontage on the OSWEGATCHIE RIVER, one of the most beautiful and pristine rivers in the ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, Northern NY.
The house sits back off of a small country road, up on a knoll, with a large deck and sun room looking down through a large stand of honey locust trees to the valley pasture below. It is a short hike on the groomed trails through the wild flowered meadows to the clear waters of the river, where we have a totally private picnic area with a screened in room, swimming hole, kayaks, hammocks, gas grill, and open deck. If fishing is your forte, this section of the river has some of the best small mouth bass fishing you will find anywhere. More about RECREATION.
If hiking or cross country skiing is your forte, we have extensive trails through the farm with a variety of ridges and vistas overlooking the meadows below. The lands are shaped like a bowl with no other houses in sight.
This area of the river provides just superb smooth water kayaking (no white water here). The river winds down through remote forested are as and farm lands, and there are literally miles of secluded kayaking and/or fishing where you don't see another house in sight. The banks of the Oswegatchie river are lined with wild flowers, ferns, rock cliffs, and many pine stands along the way. Of course, wild life abounds in areas like this, and you may see fox, coyote, deer, turkey, porcupine, even an occasional bear, bob cat, and eagle. On the river you will see ducks and geese, and perhaps beavers, musk rats, and great blue herons.
Info about our guided (or unguided) kayak and tube floats!
As with the Beaver Creek lodge, the post and plank farmhouse was totally abandoned and lay in ruin. We purchased and completely restored the property. Our company, Antique Woods and Colonial Restorations, has been restoring colonial homes and barns for almost 35 years now, and we are proud to bring this wonderful home back to life and create a new use for it. If you are a “Green” follower, you will be happy to know that almost the entire house has been recycled.
The original wide plank floors have all been refinished, and after the house was completely gutted and insulated, the interior walls were covered with reclaimed antique lumbers gleaned from other early structures. The lodge is furnished with all antiques and some hand crafted reproductions made from aged barn woods. More about the FARMHOUSE.
It is centrally located in the St. Lawrence County, one  of the most sparsely populated counties per sq. mile east of the Mississippi River. Gouverneur is located 10 minutes away from the lodge, Canton (St. Lawrence and SUNY Canton Universities) - 25 minutes away. Potsdam (Clarkson and SUNY Potsdam Universities) and Fort Drum and 1000 Island region -35 minutes away, Black lake is 15 minutes away.
You will probably see some Amish buggies ride by the house from time to time, as we are located on the edge of a large Old order Amish community. We have made arrangements with several of our Amish friends to provide buggy rides (and sleigh rides in winter) through the Amish community for our guests. More about the AMISH AND BUGGY RIDES.
Click on the links to check out our other lodges - The Beaver Creek Lodge and the Oswegatchie River Cliff House
Dale and Sophie Lehmer also own and operate two other lodges in the area, one being Beaver Creek Lodge - located in the heart of the Amish Country near Old Dekalb. If our Oswegatchie Lodge is booked for the dates you desire, please check out the Beaver Creek Lodge to see, if perhaps, our accommodations there would meet your needs. Meet the owners - Dale and Sophie Lehmer are members of the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce and the St. Lawrence County Bed and Breakfast Association.
They are also opening a brand new larger lodge on this farm right on the cliffs abutting the Oswegatchie River called the Cliff House. It is a 2100 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, barn conversion with the open cathedral ceilings and all the charm and character of a barn home conversion. It is a stunning private setting. It opens for lodgers this summer on a weekly rental beginning June 27, 2009. Click here for more info: Oswegatchie River Cliff House.
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