The Gateway Lodge - Our Cooks Forest Adventure cont.

 

The Gateway Lodge - where we stayed.

 

 

This life size sculpture greets you as you enter the lodge grounds.

 

 

When you enter the rustic building, you first come to the office where you check in.  It's a quaint little area without a lot of room and is well separated from the main lodge guest area above.  There was always someone there wrapped in those huge soft chairs reading books.  Opposite the large windows of the two story room was where the wood burning fireplace crackled constantly.  This was an utterly gorgeous place that was well kept and highly maintained with the best you could ask for.  Wi-fi was available in this room only.  The rest of the lodge wasn't privy to Internet or cell phones.  Breakfast coffee and fruit was served there every morning for the early risers.

 

The lodge also had a very high class gourmet restaurant.  We had our breakfast of fruit, eggs over easy with a slice of whole grain, homemade bread, choice of apple sausage, again homemade, apple bacon, juice, coffee and homefries.  Breakfast came with our package.

 

For dinner it was dinner for two, with choice of entrees, a salad made of spouts, grass shoots, dandelion leaves, nasturtium flowers and green apples thinly sliced, covered with a lovely oil and cheese curd.  A tomato bisque laced with worcestershire sauce which gave it a wonder zing and a fried mushroom appetizer and apple crisp ala mode drizzled with caramel.  They also served a lovely wild mushroom soup that not only rivals Longwood Gardens, but passes it with flying colors!  My new favorite mushroom soup!

 

They were proud that all their food was organically grown and in season.

 

 

Down the hall from the guest main lodge was a hall way that housed a lovely billiards room seen below and a wonderful massage spa with products that are very lovely.  We also got them in our room.  The TV in the billiards room was the only TV and it was a nice one over the fireplace in that room.  Who wanted to watch TV anyway?

 

The rooms were just as rustic as the rest of the lodge, but each suite had a fireplace, whirlpool to ease those tired muscles as well as the usual shower.  It was a lovely room.  The whole place was 4*** all the way.

There are few places we've been that Bob made it known that he was planning on returning.  This is one he said that about over and over again.  It was a really great place to spend time.  This is my kind of camping.