Kayaking offers a lifetime of varied benefits: It is forever rewarding. It can be relaxing. It is at times challenging. It is a fun social activity. Or it can be pursued solo. It is something you can spend a few hours enjoying. Or you can challenge yourself to an...
Lakefront Living
Building a Lakeside Fire Pit
by diynetwork.com Backyard fire pits are one of the most popular of all landscaping features. They are attractive, functional and provide an outdoor gathering place, especially when placed at a lakeside retreat! Ideally, a fire pit is constructed from fireproof material on a flat, level area at least 25...
Preparing Your Docks For Winter
by Charles Simola, TechniDock, Inc. Floating docks typically go in the water each spring, and come out of the water each autumn. When temperatures in an area drop below freezing, ice forms on lakes, rivers and other bodies of water. Ice can damage floating docks, so it makes sense to...
Add Breweries & Wineries to Your NH Foliage Tour
New Hampshire is one of the best places in the world to witness the brilliant crimsons and golds of fall. Why not add Breweries & Wineries to your NH Foliage Tour? In 1982, ER doctor Peter Oldak planted a half-dozen grapevines and launched an agricultural industry that now lures...
Living the Lakefront Lifestyle Featured on TV Special
Channel 5 and the Chronicle team put together a terrific 30-minute TV special called “What’s Not to Lake”. The promotion from their website reads: “Can you boat in your backyard? Mike O’Brien can. He’s just one of many New Englanders who find a lot to like about living on...
Escape to the Lake This Autumn
New England lakes in Autumn bring calm waters, cool evenings, farm stands, fairs, apple picking and spectacular colors. You don’t have to own lakefront property to get a great lakeside experience. Plan ahead for your lake escape this year. How about an overnight at one of New Hampshire’s most...
Try It Before You Buy a Lake House
by Julianne Will, 4/3/15, Lakehouse Community If you’re not a lake house owner yet, but you have a hankering for a waterfront property, we suggest renting in the area first…for perhaps as long as a year. But you want it now, you say? Patience, young grasshopper. There are reasons...
Fresh Water Beaches in Massachusetts
If salt water and shark-infested waters are not your particular cup of tea, you may enjoy one of the many fresh-water beaches in Massachusetts. Beautiful and clean fresh water beaches entice visitors for swimming, sunbathing, fishing, paddling, kayaking, canoeing and more water sports in state parks and forests and...
Lake House Decorating Ideas from a New Hampshire Cabin
Sheri and Gerry Weber turned a dark and dinky 500-square-foot cabin into an airy retreat, without expanding the New Hampshire home’s footprint. By Sharlene Breakey, Country Living Little House on the lake… When Sheri and Gerry Weber went in search of a place to put their boats, the two...
21 Best Towable Tubes for Kids
May 26, 2015 by Jim Harmer, Pontoon Guide Kids love few things more than getting flipped around the lake on a tube, but having the wrong tube can be a very negative experience for kids. I first started my kids out on a traditional donut-shaped tube that required them...