A landmark Adirondack mountain home that's been welcoming people in from the cold since before the Civil War.
The Alpine Homestead™ was built circa 1850, when Olmstedville was a working crossroads of loggers, farmers, and innkeepers carving a life out of the Adirondack woods. The house has stood through 176 winters since — through the tannery years and the logging drives, through generations of families warming themselves at its hearth — and it wears that history honestly, in wide-plank floors, a wood stove that still does real work, and rooms that have heard a lot of good stories.
Today the Homestead is offered as a Stay & Play™ Vacation Rental — five bedrooms, four baths, and room for up to twelve guests, eight minutes from Gore Mountain inside the Adirondack Park. The idea is simple: book your stay, book your play. The house is your basecamp; the mountains, lakes, and rivers around it are the itinerary. Skiers and riders in winter, rafters and hikers in spring, lake days and porch evenings all summer, leaf-peepers in the fall.
It's made for the trips that turn into traditions — three families splitting one roof for ski week, a wedding party that wants a real fire instead of a hotel lobby, groomsmen heading out with a local guide, veterans and retired law-enforcement crews who appreciate a place with no fuss and plenty of room, and grandparents watching the kids run the same yard kids have run for a century and a half.
We're pet-friendly, we're neighbors with Minerva Lake, and we're a short drive from Schroon Lake, Lake George, Lake Placid, North Creek, and Fort Ticonderoga. Come make a few stories of your own — the house is good at keeping them.
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