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Found in winter, kept for summers.
Not much changes from year to year, which is by design: long porches, slow mornings, and the loons, who winter on the coast and come back every summer, just like everyone else.
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Not much changes from year to year, which is by design: long porches, slow mornings, and the loons, who winter on the coast and come back every summer, just like everyone else.
The lake is a short walk from every bed, and it tends to take over from there. Most days find the family floating on rafts off the beach, swimming on the Lake Report’s word that it is warmer than it sounds, and taking the boat out mostly for the pleasure, but also for the pain of getting launched off the new tube.
Shallow waters, stiff pours.
Drinks have been coming and going off the Inn’s porch for decades, but this weekend we’re giving it a proper cocktail menu and twin bartenders on loan. One from Duke on the Green in London and another who only makes one drink: a heavy pour of wine. Drinks are free, creative tipping appreciated (no cash, sorry).
This is the onshore version of the sandbar at the far end of the lake… drop anchor and stay a while. Select merch behind the bar; official goods at the Camp Store.
The Inn holds no strong opinions about how you spend your day, provided it mostly involves lounging. Sleeping in is encouraged, or at least admired. And should you feel you absolutely MUST do something — a hike before the heat, an afternoon in Meredith, a raid on the Weirs Beach arcade — the Inn will allow it. Everyone meets back at the beach eventually.
Updated whenever someone remembers · the lake is in no particular hurry
“We meant to leave on Sunday!”
From the guestbook · summer 1998
This August
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The Inn opens when the ice is out and closes when the last long evening on the porch says so. Rooms are kept for family and friends of the house, which is a wider circle than it sounds. Write with your dates and the Inn will find you a bed, a chair at the table, and a spot on the beach.
The Gork Inn · Meredith, New Hampshire 03253
