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However, we ask that you do not use an outside catering company, as we are one ourselves. There were major steamboat landings at Sunapee Harbor, Georges Mills, Lakeside Landing, Blodgett’s Landing, Brightwood, Pine Cliff, Lake Station, Soo-Nipi, Burkehaven and Granliden to service the great hotels. The 90 foot Edmund Burkewas launched in 1885, able to carry 600 passengers.
Landscaping for Water Quality - Day 1
Join us for an informative presentation by Janin Marr from the Monadnock Conservancy about how to create gardens that not only are beautiful, but also healthy for our environment and a benefit for wildlife. This presentation will also illustrate the vital role gardens can play in creating “travel corridors” for adaptation and movement of plants and animals. We spent a few days in Sunapee this fall, enjoying the views of Mount Sunapee’s summit and then-green ski trails from the terrace of The Lodge by Sunapee Stays. The former motel on Burkehaven Road is now a small resort, with a garden-encased heated pool and suites decorated in Adirondak-style with log beds and natural wood finishes. Sunapee Stays also has a beautiful Tree House cabin in the woods (literally, it’s built in a tree), but it’s in nearby Newbury and not part of this story. Frances and her husband continued to expand the hotel and property, building cottages along the lake and landscaping the hillside with gardens and terraces.
Discover Sunapee with a Natural History Cruise
Participants will receive a handout with a black and white picture of each bird and the English words that approximate the calls of each. This workshop is designed for landscapers and others who develop, maintain, or preserve properties in and around the Sunapee Region. You can get a glimpse of those heady days of the grand hotels at the Sunapee Historical Society’s Flanders-Osborne Museum, housed in the former Flander’s Stable in Sunapee Harbor.
Nature Exploration Story Time ~ Raindrops and Rabbits
NS Gardner purchased Little Island for one silver dollar and built a bowling alley on it. He then purchased the Penacook, later renamed Mountain Maid, to carry passengers to his island for recreation, thus launching the steamboat era on Lake Sunapee. The M.V. MT. Sunapee II features an open-air top deck and a fully enclosed lower deck – no matter the weather, you can cruise this picturesque lake in comfort. You’ll see the magnificent homes that have sprung up around the lake as well as the historic sights of yester year.
Join us as we celebrate our love and appreciation for the incredible gifts Lake Sunapee shares with us all year long. We will review some basic chemical attributes of PFAS and the human health effects. This presentation will also discuss their sources to the environment, and focus on their bioaccumulation and movement through freshwater and marine food webs.
Dinner Cruise
Open seven days a week from mid-June to Labor Day, with free picnic tables, lounge chairs and umbrellas. Beach admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children ages 6 through 11. A long covered bridge that crosses the Connecticut River into Vermont on Bridge Street west of Route 12A. Fenton’s Landing, opposite The Anchorage, was our go-to for breakfast, and we savored one of the finest dinners in our travels, at SUNA, on Route 103.
RePete met his wife Beth while working together at the Appleseed and Tim’s wife Lacey’s family originally started the boats. Join Nancy Dutton and Midge Eliassen as they present historic photos and narrate the history of early Lake Sunapee cottages and their families. This program especially highlights those residents who have been engaged with LSPA, starting in the 1890s.
A destination that ushered in the steamboat era
Susie has been at the Harris Center – sharing her awe and appreciation for nature with toddlers, retirees, and everyone in between - since 1991. When she’s not catching frogs with preschoolers, tracking bobcats with middle schoolers, or hawkwatching with her own three children, Susie tucks away to time to write. The Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway offers guided winter hikes each season. A diverse habitat makes this home to a variety of wildlife, including loons and moose. Explore 51 miles of trails that connect Mount Monadnock with Mount Sunapee, either on foot during warm months or skis or snowmobile in the winter.
We are happy to provide two luncheon menus for afternoon cruises. The charter consist of a private 1.5 hour cruise and features a delicious buffet lunch, soft drinks, dessert, and a Captain provided narration rich with the history and lore of Lake Sunapee. Antique boats will be on display in Sunapee Harbor throughout the morning, followed by the parade with the route starting in Gardner Bay. The boats will head south past Dewey Beach, enter Sunapee Harbor, then travel along the shore line toward Birch Point, passing Fishers Bay and Oakledge, the State Beach and ending in Newbury Harbor. Come and celebrate “Love Your Lake Day” with LSPA at The Center for Lake Studies. There will be exciting exhibits, face painting, games, crafts for the kids, and a live animals presentation by The Squam Lake Science Center.
After 25 years of service, she was scuttled off Pine Cliff in Newbury. The ship is still intact and visited frequently by local scuba diving clubs. A daytime Scenic Lake Tour or Dinner Cruise gift certificate is a wonderful gift idea to celebrate an anniversary, birthday or to surprise that someone special in your life.
Tour boat carrying 60 people runs aground on Lake Sunapee - Boston.com
Tour boat carrying 60 people runs aground on Lake Sunapee.
Posted: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT [source]
You’ll see the unique “droopy roofs” and hear a mix of history and lake-life gossip. Fans of ‘70s rock will see where Steven Tyler grew up (his father was the pianist at a former resort) and pass George’s Mills, location of The Barn where he and Joe Perry formed Aerosmith. The best way to appreciate the architecture and grandeur of some of Burkehaven’s “cottages” is on a lake cruise, from the deck of the M.V.
In 1946 she was auctioned by the government and was purchased by Harmon Smith of Agawam, Mass and was used by him as a private cruiser along the Atlantic seaboard. During this era she made several cruises along the New England coast, one cruise to Florida via the Inland Waterway, and one cruise to Chicago by the way of the Hudson River, the old Erie Canal, and the Great Lakes. Big Pete and Mary Beth are still involved in everyday operations, while you can find Repete as the General Manager at the Appleseed and Tim as the General Manager of Sunapee Cruises.
From that time through the 1930s, many summer hotels, lake resorts, and guest houses were built to accommodate thousands of summer visitors who traveled the lake on several large steamboats. From this early beginning, Sunapee Harbor was and remains the center of lake-centered commercial activities. Today the harbor provides public access with a boat launch and public parks.
He will discuss the key food web interactions including phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish. Lake Sunapee, nestled in the shadows of Mount Sunapee and Mount Kearsarge, has a unique history in the Lakes Region in that it was the first to embrace the power of the steamboat. The area first became a vacation destination for New Englanders in the late 1800s, who traveled by rail to reach the north end of the lake, then by water to reach their family estates. This beautifully kept property, located on the former estate of politician John Hay, is a sanctuary for migratory birds and includes the longest stretch of undeveloped shoreline on Lake Sunapee.
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