Crystal Lake Lodge

09/06/2026

Cannot believe the summer season is over!!!
Big thanks to everyone who made it such a successful season!

So many beautiful sunsets

And twinkling twilights

Cotton candy clouds

Serene summer sunrises watching the clouds spill over the mountain and dance across the lake

Picked the perfect beach read

And devoured some sequels in some of our favorite series

Met some new troll friends

In a Forrest we visit every season

Watched shooting stars and the Milky Way

Caught the glow of the Aurora

Paddled over a mirror

Swam in the clouds

Watched the sun go down and the stars come up

Found a new favorite coffee cake and

Had ice cream for dinner at Marтнaѕ Dandee Creмe! 🍦

And frosty beverages at The Gem & Little Gem

And the best of everything bbq on fries

Bear’s Cup Bakehouse bagels with fresh tomatoes from the Schroon Lake Farmers Market

08/22/2026

Adding some new book trophies to the collection here at Crystal Lake Lodge

The things we never say by Elizabeth Stroud
👍👍👍

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
👍👍👍 (couldn’t put it down but I’m the 🎯 audience)

Dolly All The Time by Annabel Monaghan
👍👍👍 (perfect low stress vacation read. Bonus points for having read it on block island and all over Rhode Island where it takes place)

The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren
(Haven’t read this one yet but leaving it here to tackle next time I’m looking for something fun)

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 (scored a copy early thanks to work and ripped through it)

Just for the Plot by Meghan Quinn
👍👍👍 (super cute and fun read)

A Starling House by Alix E Harrow
👍👍👍 (my go-to author for escapes with some scrapes and plot twists that keep me ruminating for days and weeks but in the best of ways)

Careless People Sarah Wynn
👍👍👍👍👍 (must read or listen to anyone on this AP and anything META especially if you have kids)

Slow dance by Rainbow Rowell
👍👍👍 (another author I always pick up because I love her story telling)

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
👍👍👍 (burned right through everything she wrote last summer)

Strangers by Belle Burden
👍👍👍👍👍👍 (family law was the only class I got an A in and I could never practice it but still one of the most important classes I’ve ever taken! Got to visit the Vineyard this summer too. Heartbreaking but also educating and illuminating. Working on my will right now and so should you!!!)

Terror at the Gates by Scarlett St. Clair
👍 (quick and mindless and fabulous gothic escapism by someone who’s author name is the same as my former drinking name. No crumbs. No notes)

The Sirens by Emilia Hart
👍👍👍 (this took two sittings- started it last summer and just wasn’t in the mood but kept thinking about it and kept coming back to it and then plowed through)

Also we have basically all of your summer reads!



Most of these are from my grade school and high school days

Paxton, Steinbeck and more

Anthologies and yes Harry Potter

All of the Toni Morrison

08/18/2026

06/28/2026

Summer is off to a blissed out start with rose gold colored sunsets, frozen cocktails and coffee, and classics ❤️ny

06/21/2026

Swimming in the clouds on the solstice. Even on the longest day of the year I find myself looking forward to the night sky. Little Dipper and a crescent moon as the planets line up along the western sky.

05/25/2026

Summer has officially started - have you booked your trip to the Adirondacks yet?!?
Use our link to book today!

04/07/2026

As the sunsets start to get later and the days start to stretch a little longer we’re dreaming of cliff jumping, tubing through the narrows, aurora filled night skies and lazy easy reads in a hammock

01/02/2026

Headed home tomorrow but what a glorious
1. Chairs at
2. Frozen lake
3. Dynamite hill ski and sled hill
4. Ice rink at
5. Coziest room at with the best view #6
7: bed of our dreams at
8&9: stocking up on crystals and neat rocks in the rock room at

11/12/2025

These are from another night at but hoping for a repeat tonight!!!