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Lakeside Muskoka resort with fireplace cottages. Breakfast included. A Muskoka Tradition since 1927. A Muskoka Tradition.
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A Muskoka resort owned and operated by the Fleming family since 1927. Lakeside cottages with stone fireplaces, breakfast included. Enjoy your "Home Away From Home" 4 seasons of the year. Please peruse our website www.cedargrove.on.ca for photos, panoramas, rates, and more!

10/03/2026

The leaves are at or near peak at Cedar Grove and in Algonquin!

09/30/2026

Fall colour update Sept 30:

South Muskoka 52%
North Muskoka 71%
Cedar Grove Country 75%
Hwy 60 Algonquin Park. 88%

Leaf fall 8%

Dominant colours: orange/red with poplar still providing green patches

Rapid colour change in the last 8 days

09/25/2026

The deposits for those who tentatively rebooked from last winter are due by Wednesday. Please let us know your intentions either way so that we don’t have to worry that you may have forgotten.

What do you think the ‘Super El Niño’ will bring us?

09/21/2026

Fall colour report September 21:

South Muskoka 12%
Cedar Grove country 16%
North Muskoka 17%
Algonquin Park- Hwy 60- 21%

4% leaf fall
Green is still the dominant colour

09/18/2026

Top activities by our guests this week in the warm September sun:

Chatting
Napping
Reading
Swimming (seriously!)
Kayaking
Snacking

Your holiday doesn’t have to be complicated to be great!

09/12/2026

Official Fall Colour report for September 12:

South Muskoka- 3%
North Muskoka- 7%
Algonquin Park Hwy 60 corridor- 9%

Colours are starting to change all over the Cedar Grove region. The grand show will start in about ten days and last for about 45, including the ‘golden encore’.

09/09/2026

The great Pen Lake treasure hunt has come to an end. 🏴‍☠️

I was really uncertain if anyone would be interested, or if the pucks would be way too hard to find. The guests really enjoyed the hunt!

There were nine pucks from Cardinal dock to picnic point.

Every week in the summer found at least one, except the Illig/Craven week 🤷🏼‍♀️!

The week champion of the hunt, was a tie. Both the Newhouse week and the Bartz/Brownscheidle week found 6!

Puck #6 was by far the hardest, it was deep off the trampoline, in over 10 feet of water- it was found twice!

#9 was the easiest, it was off the picnic point dock in shallow water on a sandy bottom.

Seven pucks are going to overwinter in the lake unless an intrepid fall guest finds them first.

Ten black pucks were found that had been lost in the snow off the rink! Thanks! 😀

We are dreaming up ideas for next year, including a golden puck with 100 on it to celebrate our 100 years. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

09/07/2026

Thank you for a great summer!

This was our 100th summer! (1927 through 2026 inclusive)

Will you be here for summer 101?

🇨🇦❤️

Discover Muskoka

09/04/2026

Simplicity - ‘from the mouths of babes’.

08/31/2026

Passing The Handle — 59 years and counting!

Cedar Grove has been offering waterskiing every summer since 1968. We believe that makes our little lodge the longest for this in Ontario resort history.

Thousands of guests learned to ski at the lodge and we are very proud of that. Hearing the roar of cheers from the dock when a child gets up is something special. To play a tiny role, especially with the young ones, in giving them confidence, a new skill and experience is a wonderful thing for us to hold onto all these years.

In those 59 years there has been only 5 main drivers/instructors for over 99% of the time: Gary, Mike, Jeremy, Bill and Matthew.

After coming home from University one spring a young Gary was told he ‘has to do something with the guests this year’. The idea of playing bridge in the lounge at night with the ‘old people’ was not something he was at all interested in so he exclaimed ‘I’ll take them skiing!’, and a tradition was born!

Mike and Jeremy ushered in the Mastercraft era. What has now become ubiquitous on the lake, was at the time a very niche boat, and only the second of its kind on the lake and first Mastercraft to touch the clear water of Pen Lake. This competition level ski boat allowed us to take teaching skiing to a new level. Safety, comfort and success rate increased, as well as overall enjoyment for both us and the guests. It was also a great boat for two teenagers to impress the girls with. 😂. Tubing also started in this era and quickly became very popular, much to the chagrin of the purists!

Bill, or ‘Captain Bill’ as he would become affectionately known as, learned to ski at the lodge as a guest. Many summers for two weeks in August in the 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s he skied every day having been taught by instructor #1, Gary. Little did they know he would become instructor #4 and retire on Pen Lake. In fact, Bill taught skiing for almost as long as he worked his career engineering job!

Last but not least is relatively young Matthew, who has quickly become the younger kids favourite tube driver. 😂

The number five hits again when it comes to the boats. In all those years we had 5 ski boats:

1963 Brunswick Cutter with a 40 then 60 HP

1972 Grew I/O

1982 Glastron I/O

1988 Mastercraft Prostar 190

2005 Mastercraft Prostar 190

Thank you for all the smiles, laughs, cheers, high fives, consoling hugs, encouragement from the dock, funny wipe outs, proud expressions when we come back to the dock, for not giving up, for trying again the next day, for the kisses you give to a proud or disappointed child or spouse, for going in the rain or cold water, and for being awesome students and spectators!

In the comments please share your favourite stories of skiing, tubing, or dock time! We would love to hear them!

P.S. you would probably be surprised who the 3 in the photo with the little girls are, can anyone name them?? Plus that is foxy the lodge dog!

Address

167 Grassmere Resort Road
Huntsville, ON
P1H2K5

Telephone

+18004614269

Website

http://www.cedargrove.on.ca/

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