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Why a 176-Year-Old Farmhouse Beats a Hotel for Group Trips
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Group Travel · May 12, 2026

Why a 176-Year-Old Farmhouse Beats a Hotel for Group Trips

There's a moment on every group trip when everyone scatters to their separate hotel rooms and the evening just… ends. A house changes that. When you rent the whole Homestead, the group stays together — cooking, playing games, and trading stories by the fire long after a hotel lobby would have emptied out.

The math usually favors the house

Twelve people in a hotel is six rooms at nightly rates that climb fast on weekends. One house, split among the group, is almost always less per person — and you get a full kitchen, a living room, a yard, and a fire pit instead of a mini-fridge and a TV.

Room to actually be together

Five bedrooms and four baths mean nobody's fighting over a shower. A Foosball table, board games, and a reading room keep every age entertained. And 1.6 acres gives the kids — and the dog — somewhere to run.

A place with a story

Built around 1850, the Homestead carries 176 years of Adirondack history in its bones. It's not a generic room you forget the moment you check out. It's the kind of place groups come back to, year after year.

Bring the whole group together

Five bedrooms, four baths, sleeps twelve — and a story to tell.

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