About our Area

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the resort was sold to a real estate developer who brought each cottage up to modern day standards (electrical, plumbing) and sold them all individually.  

I acquired my first cottage (Cedar Cottage) I lived there and slowly started repairing and remodeling it and began renting as a vacation rental. (hence autrainrivercottage and not plural). In 2011, I acquired the Mountain Ash Cottage adding that to the rental and began the very long process of remodeling that cottage, as it is one of the oldest and had been neglected.    

In 2012 I added the Hemlock by managing it for the owner and in 2014 I added the Robins Nest and Lodge as managed rentals.  

 2015 was a busy year for me as I purchased both the Hemlock and the Loft cottages bringing the total to 6. In 2016, I was finally able to get the Spruce, the oldest cottage here and it was relatively untouched for decades. We spent a lot of time doing our best to update the cottage while still maintaining it's rustic/original form. 

After years of renting canoes and kayaks to my guests staying here in 2017 I decided to open DA YAK SHAK here in AuTrain.  Specializing in paddling our area, we offer more than anyone else. We are slowly growing and offering more and more every year. 

We bought the empty lot across the street from the Shak so we could have more space to grow.  So in Spring we moved the Shak and started over again! I would like to say that I am going to slow down and be happy with what I got, but that's probably not true! 

We added the Riverside Cottage to the rentals on the river by way of managing it for the owner, so we now have 8 total cottages available to guests on the river.  Enjoy the pictures below, there's many, many, many hours of time put into those projects.  Thanks for spending the time to get know more about us!!