When to Come

People ask us this more than anything else, so we thought we would write it down.

May and early June are our favorite months. The water is still cold, but the light is long and the coast is mostly empty. You will need a sweater in the evening. Wildflowers are at their peak the second week of May most years, though last year they came a week late. Dinner nights: two a week, sometimes three.

Late June through August is the busiest stretch — not busy by anyone else's standards, but busy by ours. All four cabins are often full. The water is swimmable for most people by mid-July. Dinner nights: three a week, always. Book early if you can, which for us means write to us in February or March.

September is underrated. The crowds thin almost overnight after Labor Day, the water stays warm well into the month, and the light gets soft in a way that is hard to describe. We have had guests tell us September is the only month worth coming, and we do not entirely disagree. Dinner nights: two a week.

October we start closing cabins one by one. By November only Low & Slow is open, and only for guests we have hosted before. Winter we close completely — Peter spends it fixing things, Joan spends it reading, and Nell goes somewhere warm for three months every year without fail.