Unique Adirondack Experiences

Explore our range of offerings from Experience Dinners to Nutritional Energetics Workshops.
Whether you're staying with us, in the area, or live locally, you can enjoy unique ways to discover the Adirondacks with family or friends.

Taste. Explore. Reconnect.

For nearly 140 years and generations of family, we have catered to the public as one of the last original Adirondack Great Camps still open to the public with a 1920s Speakeasy. This enables us to provide you with authentic experiences, both new and timeless, in a stunning setting.

  • Taste your way through Adirondack History with Culinary Experiences and a 1920s Speakeasy.
  • Explore an authentic horse-drawn Stagecoach or Wagon Ride on our 25-acres.
  • Reconnect with your nature through wellness classes and workshops.

But that's not all: from History of Beer Tastings and Cooking Demonstrations, we're just getting started! View our weekly schedule.

Sunset Stagecoach Ride at the Lake Clear Lodge. A Henderson stagecoach is pulled by Percheron Draft Horses at the Private Beach at the Lake Clear Lodge. Guests enjoy a sunset view from inside the stagecoach.
Ernest Hohmeyer gives a History of Beer Tasting and Workshop to guests at the Lake Clear Lodge in the Speakeasy Rathskeller.
Chicken Schnitzel with Spaetzle Noodles at the Adirondack Alps Restaurant at the Lake Clear Lodge.

Destination Experiences

Where you can taste and laugh through living Adirondack history with family and friends with Stagecoach Rides, Speakeasy Dinners, History of Beer Tastings, Traditional Foods Cooking Demos and so much more.

  • Join us where your experience is as expansive as you want to make it.
  • Simply come for one of our Experience Dinners or stay in one of our hand-crafted lodgings.
  • Either way, you can throw away the keys for a memory-filled moment and immerse in one of the last Adirondack Great Camps open to the public.

Experience Schedule

Upcoming Special Events

None...yet!

Thursdays

6:00 pm
6:30 pm

Myths & Legends of Ancient Tonics

Myths & Legends of Ancient Tonics

Tonics from the gods, the elixir's by the ancient shamans, rations for the pyramids, beer as gold, a savior of the people. Join us for a 30-minute tasting and exploration of the myths and legends of ancient tonics and how they shaped what we drink today.

*Available as an add-on for our History of Food Tasting Experience.
Small tasting glasses with assorted ancient tonics at the Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat.
6:30 pm
9:00 pm

History of Food Tasting Experience

History of Food Tasting Experience

Taste your way through history with a five-course dinner! Our expanded History of Food reaches back to the origins of various foods, how food shaped history, the myths and legends of their healing power, and how the hunt for certain foods formed the quest for world discovery, created our way of life, and associations with people and cultures.

*Available as an add-on for our .
Guests enjoy a History of Adirondack Food Tasting Dinner (long table) in the 1886 Stagecoach Dining Room while Executive Chef Cathy Hohmeyer explains the history and common roots behind one of the courses.

Fridays

4:30 pm
5:00 pm

Old World Favorites Cooking Demonstration

Old World Favorites Cooking Demonstration

Several generations of Hohmeyer chefs are part of a centuries-long Old World culinary lineage dating back to medieval times. Explore seasonal themes from spaetzle to strudels via an interactive 30-minute cooking demo with recipes and how-tos.

*Available as an add-on for our Taste of Germany Experience Dinner.
Guests watch Executive Chef Cathy Hohmeyer demonstrate how to make Spaetzle in a 30 minute cooking demonstration.
5:00 pm
5:30 pm

History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting

History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting

Join Ernest Hohmeyer for a 30-minute experience about the history of Octoberfest beer, replete with a tasting of 6 beers from around the world!

*Available as an add-on for our Taste of Germany Experience Dinner.
Ernest Hohmeyer giving a History of Beer Tasting & Workshop focusing on Octoberfest Beers.
5:30 pm
7:30 pm

Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Start off in the 1920s Speakeasy Rathskeller, explore the hidden Beer & Wine Cellar with a large variety of Old World Wines and Beers from around the world. Savor authentic German dishes from Ernest’s side of the family from Heritage Chicken Schnitzel to Old World Roulade.

*Available as an add-on for our .
A corner table in the Adirondack Alps 1886 Stagecoach Dining Room. Hand-made Adirondack Chairs, dishware, and hand-painted glasses decorate the table.

Saturdays

3:30 pm
5:00 pm

Covered Wagon Ride

Covered Wagon Ride

Ride a Pioneer Wagon with Lucky Clover Farm and authentic draft horses through the woods and to the shores of Lake Clear.

*Available as an add-on for our .
Lucky Clover Sleigh Rides' horses Jasper and Fly pose in front of the 1886 Main Lodge pulling a canvas covered red wagon decorated with American Flags at the Lake Clear Lodge & Resort.
5:00 pm
5:30 pm

History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting

History of Octoberfest Beer Workshop & Tasting

Join Ernest Hohmeyer for a 30-minute experience about the history of Octoberfest beer, replete with a tasting of 6 beers from around the world!

*Available as an add-on for our Taste of Germany Experience Dinner.
Ernest Hohmeyer giving a History of Beer Tasting & Workshop focusing on Octoberfest Beers.
5:00 pm
7:00 pm

Specialty Stagecoach Ride & Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Specialty Stagecoach Ride & Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Ride in an authentic 1800s Stagecoach through our nature trails and to the shores of Lake Clear – but beware, you may be robbed! Find the hidden door to the 1920s Speakeasy; be sure you know the password to get in. Explore our hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar. Savor a Taste of Germany Dinner in our hand-hewn 1886 Stagecoach Dining Room.

*Available as an add-on for our .
The Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat's Henderson Stagecoach at the Lake Clear Lodge Lakefront with Percheron Draft Horses Jasper and Fly in the foreground.
5:30 pm
7:30 pm

Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Taste of Germany Experience Dinner

Start off in the 1920s Speakeasy Rathskeller, explore the hidden Beer & Wine Cellar with a large variety of Old World Wines and Beers from around the world. Savor authentic German dishes from Ernest’s side of the family from Heritage Chicken Schnitzel to Old World Roulade.

*Available as an add-on for our .
A corner table in the Adirondack Alps 1886 Stagecoach Dining Room. Hand-made Adirondack Chairs, dishware, and hand-painted glasses decorate the table.

Get In Touch With Us

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