One house, booked whole

Explore the House

Five bedrooms over three floors, and the parts of the house guests actually talk about. Have a look around before you arrive — most groups have already decided who is getting which room.

The Main Floor

One open room — fireplace, table, kitchen — and the one bedroom you reach without stairs.

  • The main-floor living room in daylight, stone fireplace and sofas
  • The living room with the gas fireplace lit
  • The living room stone fireplace, lit
  • The living room looking through to the dining area

The Living Room

Main level

Stone fireplace, sofas for everyone, and windows facing down the hill toward the lake. The fireplace works with a switch, not a match.

  • The dining table set for eight under the chandelier
  • The dining area open to the living room and fireplace
  • The living room and dining area, open to each other

The Dining Area

Main level

A long table under the chandelier, open to the kitchen and the living room. Guests use it harder for cards than for dinner.

  • A kitchen cabinet of wine glasses, tumblers and mugs
  • A kitchen cabinet of plates, bowls and serving dishes
  • A kitchen cabinet of pots, pans and a colander

The Kitchen

Main level

Stocked for a house this size rather than for one couple: dishes for a crowd, pans that will feed thirteen, and counter space to do it on.

  • The Main Level Master Suite: queen bed on a wood floor
  • The Main Level Master Suite, showing the dresser and rocking chair
  • The Main Level Master Suite looking through to its own private full bathroom

Main Level Master Suite

Main level

The only bedroom with its own private full bathroom, and the only one on the main floor. Great lake views.

Upstairs

Four of the five bedrooms are up here, including the only king and the room to work from.

  • The Upstairs Master Suite: king bed under a cathedral ceiling with A-frame windows
  • The Upstairs Master Suite, the only king in the house
  • The Upstairs Master Suite seen from its own bathroom doorway

Upstairs Master Suite

Upper floor

The whole top floor, and the only king in the house, under a cathedral ceiling. Its own bathroom, with the jacuzzi tub, is beside the bed.

  • The Clouds and Woods View Room: queen bed under a sky painted on the ceiling
  • The Clouds and Woods View Room, wider, with the wardrobe

Clouds and Woods View Room

Upper floor

A queen room looking into the woods, with a sky painted across its own ceiling.

  • The Woods and Lake View Tele-Work Room: queen bed and a desk under the sloped ceiling
  • The desk and chair in the Woods and Lake View Tele-Work Room
  • A bed with a patchwork quilt and a teddy bear in a small rocking chair

Woods and Lake View Tele-Work Room

Upper floor

The room to work from: queen bed, a proper desk and chair, a laser printer available, and woods and lake views.

  • The jacuzzi tub in the primary bathroom, filled
  • The corner jacuzzi tub in the primary bathroom

The Jacuzzi Off the Primary

Upper floor

Deep corner jacuzzi with a window onto the trees. It is the thing people actually use after a day on the mountain.

The Bathrooms

Three and a half, across the three floors.

Two of the five bedrooms have their own. The Upstairs Master Suite has the corner jacuzzi tub — that one has its own page above. The Main Level Master Suite has its own private full bathroom, and it is the only other bedroom that does. The rest are shared.

We are photographing the shared bathrooms properly rather than showing you one bathroom twice. If the exact layout matters to your group — and with a full house it reasonably might — message Rick and Jen before you book and they will walk you through it honestly.

Ask Bertha about bathrooms and sleeping

The Lower Level

Guests talk about the basement more than anything except the hot tub.

  • The Downstairs Bunk and Queen Room: a twin-over-full bunk reached by stairs, not a ladder, beside a queen bed
  • The Downstairs Bunk and Queen Room, with the queen bed in the foreground
  • The Downstairs Bunk and Queen Room, with the Do Not Wake The Bear sign

Downstairs Bunk and Queen Room

Lower level

A queen plus a twin-over-full bunk reached by stairs, not a ladder. Woods and lake views.

  • The full-size pool table in the lower-level game room
  • The dartboard on the game room wall, pool table to the right
  • The lower-level lounge: sectional sofa, pool table behind, and the dog
  • The retro arcade machine in the lower level
  • The lower-level lounge and pool table, with the dog on the sofa

The Game Room

Lower level

Full-size pool table, darts, a retro arcade machine, a 70-inch TV and a pile of board games. After the hot tub, the thing guests mention most.

  • The antique bar with its stools, lit at night
  • The antique bar with the big TV and the fireplace lit behind it
  • The Bearly Legal slot machine beside the bar
  • The lower level: television, fireplace and the sectional

The Antique Bar

Lower level

The bar came off a New Orleans-to-Baltimore steamboat, around 1910. We took it apart by hand and rebuilt it here.

Outside

The deck, the hot tub under it, the fire pit out back and the view down to the lake.

  • The deck in daylight: log Adirondack chairs around the gas fire table
  • The gas fire table burning on the deck under a clear night sky
  • The gas fire table burning on the deck at night
  • The deck with the grill and the green picnic table
  • The green table on the deck, looking down through the trees

The Deck and Fire Table

Outside

Log Adirondack chairs around a gas fire table, a picnic table and the grill. The reason people stay outside after dark in October.

  • The covered patio in summer, hot tub at the back, stepping stones leading out to the yard
  • The covered patio under the deck, with the hot tub at the back
  • The lit stepping-stone path along the stone wall to the hot tub

The Hot Tub and Covered Patio

Outside

A private six-person hot tub on the covered patio under the deck, down a lit stepping-stone path, with lake views year-round.

  • The autumn view down through the trees toward the road and the lake
  • A portable fire bowl and chairs on the gravel beside the house in autumn - not the wood-burning fire pit at the rear
  • A clear night sky over the treeline
  • The autumn view from the deck, down through the trees

The Yard and the Views

Outside

The ground drops away toward Garrett Highway and the lake is on the far side of the road. A wood-burning fire pit out back, and real stars.

  • The chalet from the driveway in summer
  • The chalet from the front in autumn
  • The driveway and the front of the house on an autumn morning
  • The chalet lit up at night
  • The chalet lit up at night in the snow

The Chalet Itself

Outside

Three floors of A-frame chalet on a wooded lot, five minutes from Wisp, with free parking in the driveway.

Still deciding who sleeps where?

Bertha knows the house room by room — beds, bathrooms, which bunk has stairs, and who the top floor really suits.

Ask Bertha about the house
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McHenry, Maryland

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