Now providing 11 guest rooms in four buildings, the Point was built in the early 1930s as the home of John D. Rockefeller's nephew William Avery Rockefeller, who dubbed it Camp Wonundra. This Mobil Five-Star and Relaix & Chateau property has received raves from numerous publications, including Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report, Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes and USA Today. Rates range from $1,350 for the Iroquois room in the Main Lodge to $2,600 for the Boathouse. The entire property can be rented for $20,150.
Furnished with antiques and Adirondack pieces, all accommodations have a lake view, custom-made bed and stone fireplace. Features found in some guest rooms include mountain views, stocked bookshelves, private deck or patio, private exit, sitting/breakfast room, dressing room, walk-in closet, waterfall or oversized shower, double soaking tub or cathedral ceiling.
Along with the Great Hall dining room, the Main Lodge has four rooms split among its two wings; there are three guest rooms each in the Guest House and the Eagle's Nest, which also contains the Pub. Sitting over the water is the private Boathouse, available mid-April through October.
The Adirondack Mountains and Upper Saranac Lake supplies an abundance of activities: water skiing, lake swimming, sunset cocktail cruises, fishing, boating, hunting, camping, hiking, biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, fishing and hockey, golf, tennis, volleyball, croquet, horseshoes, badminton and antiquing.
Nearby Lake Placid boasts the only public bobsled and luge runs in the country, tobogganning, dog sledding, speed skating, ski jumping, alpine ski and aerial competitions, and international hockey and figure skating. Less than an hours' drive brings guests to the Olympic slopes at Whiteface Mountain.
All meals, featuring world-class cuisine and service, are provided in the Great Hall; also a breakfast basket is delivered to guest rooms and a picnic lunch can be prepared. For dinner, jackets and ties are the custom.
