The cabin is rustic as listed and has everything one would need. The kitchen was stocked and the cabin was clean. The views around the lake were beautiful to look at in this very quiet neighborhood.
We arrived on a Tuesday and noticed the tap water was brown. The owner, Mary, had told me a few days before checkin that a plumber would be there before we arrived - she was having a problem with the water pressure. It was supposedly all fixed. There was no mention of brown water. When I called her she said it might be caused if the lake was rough and it should settle down. It wasn't particularly windy or rough, but it remained brown the whole time we were there (except when there was NO water).
We had planned on staying until Sunday but unfortunately by Friday we had no water at all. At this point, while walking all around the property trying to troubleshoot for her, Mary informed me that she had been having a lot of water problems and had changed the pump and everything over the past year but she couldn't quite get to the bottom of the problems.
She was unable to get a plumber to come until sometime the next day and suggested that we might be able to go down to the lake and get buckets of water to flush the toilet. There are absolutely no lights outside and the walk down to the lake involves a very sizable and rocky decline, with remnants of docks strewn amongst the rocks for good measure. Navigating this in the dark to fetch water, in addition to the tons of mosquitoes that are active after dark, would be crazy.
Not only did we have our children with us but also my parents who are senior citizens. With no water, no toilets, and no clear idea when anyone might be available to even evaluate the problem - much less fix it- we were faced with a tough decision.
We realized we had no choice but to literally drop everything and pack the car to leave in the dark right at the time we were supposed to be putting our kids to bed, and frankly we were tired after a long day.
Based on my conversations with Mary, it sounds like there was/is a known , ongoing problem with the water, that's been not fully resolved for the past year. It was a major disappointment to end like this. This was our first vacation since Covid, maybe longer, and we would not have chosen to go here if we had known about the water.