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Adirondack Great Woods Retreat Experiences

To make your retreat a memorable one, the Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat offers three (3) Adirondack Great Camp style Experiences. You may choose one, do a hybrid of all three, or we would be more than pleased to work with you to personalize your experience - which is what we truly enjoy doing.

You can also browse our Enhancements to Your Special Event by experiencing our Seasonal Activities

Our Rustic Simplicity Group Experience is a value package where you choose one facility for your special event and a basic meal plan. Our Classic Experience offers the use of several retreat facilities to diversify your event or to provide break-out spaces and includes our renowned classic cuisine of our unique fusion of Adirondack flavors with Old World tastes. In our Great Camp Experience, our entire 25-acre estate is reserved for your use with a 100 Mile culinary tasting menu that focuses on local Adirondack products with Old World natural essences.

See our feature on Samplers of Special Events including group menus and personalized enhancements.

Adirondack Rustic Simplicity

Here we immerse you in the taste of the Great Woods experience that is simple and budget conscious. In this experience, we work with you to choose one location on the estate for your special event. The remaining portions of the property remain open to the public. For example, you can choose to have your entire event in our new Lake-view Retreat Center, the 1886 main Lodge or at our lake property.

The culinary presentation consists of Adirondack Alps appetizer samplers such as sachetinni with prosciutto, Adirondack Artisanal cheeses and Old World smoked beer, wurst samplers; choice of main entrée such as Adirondack garden vegetable strudels, fresh fish and Old World stews and sautés with seasonal salad, vegetables and hand-crafted desserts. All other incidentals such as bar and venues are ala carte. Rustic Simplicity experiences are approximately $75 - $100PP. As lodgings in this experience are typically the care of individual guests, they are not included.

Classic Experience

For nearly 50 years, our Classic Special Event Experience has been the staple of our Retreat. You can choose up to 2 (two) venues to host different parts of your special event and you can indulge yourself in our classic Adirondack Alps cuisine that includes Adirondack local products such as grass-fed beef combined with classic options.

As an example in our Classic experience, you may have an immersion at our sunset lake-side and have your reception in the Lake-view Retreat Center. The fare options include appetizer samplers of Adirondack and classic delectable's such as grass-fed corn husks and salmon potato pancakes delivered at either venue. Main entrée fare is a complete 3-course delight with our famous hand-stocked soup, seasonal salad and choice of Adirondack and Old World options such as hunter's stroganoff, Old World roasts and wild caught fresh fish. Delectable desserts are also included. Again, incidentals such as bar, accommodations, venues, are ala carte. A Classic Experience is approximately $100 - $150PP.

Adirondack Great Camp Style Experience.

In the Adirondack Great Camp style experience, you can relive the elegance of the St. Regis Wilderness and personalization of the Great Woods experience. Our entire 25-acre estate is open to you enhanced with a 100 Mile Adirondack with Old World flair 5-course tasting menu. Here, you can also explore Adirondack nature and the hand-crafted charm and uniqueness of our diverse and yet as one guest described it, "harmonized amenities". You can begin with a reception in the Fireplace Rathskeller, have a tasting dinner in the 1886 hand-hewn dining room and revel in the new hand-crafted Lake-view Retreat Center.

And the culinary immersion is what we are all about symbolized by our National Geographic Traveler award for "sense of place". Enjoy scrumptious appetizer samplers of special 100 mile Adirondack samplers topped off by a tasting dinner from local farms that are flavored with Old World herbs, spices and sauces. Smoked game dishes, vegetarian pastries, stone-ground spatzel, and slow cooked roasts, are just but a few samplers you can choose from Chef Cathy Hohmeyer's blossoming whole foods repertoire as she concludes her doctorate in Naturopathy. Conclude the evening with samplers of the best of Adirondack desserts such as mountain berry pie, Adirondack-made wine flavored ice cream parfaits and Old World favorites such as marzipan cake and strudels.

A group Wine & Beer Workshop & Tasting is also included from the Adirondacks only hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar with over 250 specialty beers and 350 boutique wines. Go beyond traditional tasting rooms to take-in Adirondack Great Camp style tasting buildings. Or, enjoy samplers directly with nature in our outdoor lakefront and garden portals. An Adirondack Great style experience is approximately $150 - $250PP not incl. facility charges, lodgings, personalized set-up requirements, taxes and gratuities.

Enhancements to Your Special Event

You are only limited to your imagination in terms of adding special touches. You are truly in the epicenter of Adirondack Park activities ranging from cosmopolitan to rustic, from indoor fun to outdoor imagination - you truly can do it all. Here are just a few examples:

On Property Immersions

Off-site Experiences (within 25 minutes)

Samplers of Special Events

Great Woods Wedding Experiences

The Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat offers diverse Great Woods Wedding Experiences - all which may be personalized. We have performed simple intimate weddings to beautiful Adirondack Great Camp style experiences that have utilized our entire 25-acre property including on-the-lake sunset wedding ceremonies, a reception with music in the lake-view Retreat Center, dinner in the 1886 hand-hued dining room and after-hours in the Fireplace Rathskeller with the Adirondack's only hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar.

Retreat Experiences

Artisan-style Hand-crafted Lodgings:

Accommodations in our handcrafted lodgings that would be a mixture of our 3 styles of accommodations based on double occupancy.

Sample Culinary Venues

• Breakfast: The 1886 hand-hued dining room or the new Lake-view Retreat Center.
• Lunch: Each day in the 1886 hand-hued dining room or Retreat Center.
• Dinner: Our unique 100 Mile Adirondack - Old World cuisine in the 1886 Dining room or the Retreat Center.
• Mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks with refreshments.
• Seasonal Options include the Outdoor Beer & Wine Garden and our 3-acre Lake-front

Meeting Room Venues:

Your choice of:

• Lake-view Retreat Center
• Main Lodge 1886 hand-hued dining room from 10am-4pm
• Fireplace Rathskeller from 8am-5pm
• Outdoor Wine & Bier Garden 8am-5pm (dependent upon availability and season)
• Lake-side tent (dependent upon availability and season)

Sample Enhancements to Your Special Event

These are samples of memorable add-on that individuals or the whole group may participate in:

• An Adirondack Harvest Reception with unique Adirondack harvest Old World style hor'dorves and Adirondack Heritage music.
• Tastings & History of Octoberfest Biers & Wines from the Adirondack's only hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar with over 250 specialty beers and 350 boutique wines. Learn of the history of Octoberfest and sample specialty Octoberfest beers and wines.
• Reception with an Adirondack vocalist. Music with an Adirondack musician during the reception hour.
• Group-building Culinary Workshop. Co-owner and Chef Cathy Hohmeyer is pursuing her doctorate in Naturopathy and is a leading voice in the North Country in this field. She has developed a unique team building cooking workshop that combines role playing, culinary tips and practical team skill building that you can take home with you. This workshop can also be reformatted to be a dinner presentation on 100 Mile holistic cuisine and what it can mean to a communities and families health.
• Philosopher's Pub Fireside Chat. Depending on the nature of your special event, themed interpretive dinners and interactive educational programs can be developed. Immersions in the past have included biodiversity, future of rural business and communities, natural wellness, Adirondack history, the arts and culinary naturopathy.

These immersions would be customized to compliment the goals of your special event.

Samples of Early Arrivals or Late Departure Adirondack Great Woods Activities

A diverse range of Great Woods activities both outdoors and in are available to you. These may include:

• The Paul Smiths College Visitor Interpretive Center: a living celebration of the diverse natural amenities of the Adirondack Park including walking trails and indoor exhibits
• The Natural History Museum: a historical account of the natural development of the Adirondacks
• Information packages and maps on the incredible endless opportunities to hike, bike, paddle, bird and fish in the 18000-acre St. Regis Wilderness area. All types of trips exist from the novice to the expert that one can do for an hour or an overnight. An orientation upon arrival or a pre-retreat activity package can be arranged.