The camp
Twelve hectares between the pines and the water
The camp follows the shore for a little over a kilometre. Everything is on the lakeside loop, a gravel path you can walk in slippers.
On the map
1. Reception and the boathouse
Keys, firewood, bread at eight, canoes and paddles. Open 8:00–20:00.
2. The jetty
Morning swims, canoes until nine, sunsets from the far end.
3. Lakeshore pitches
Pitches 1–22, on the grass a few steps from the water.
4. Sauna
Wood-fired, by the water. Book an hour at reception.
5. Pine terrace
Campervan pitches 30–48 on level gravel, with power.
6. The meadow
Bell tents, the shallow beach for children and dogs.
7. Fire circle
Stories on Saturdays at nine, marshmallows on us.
8. Showers and the washhouse
Hot showers, sinks for dishes, a drying room for wet days.
9. The Heron treehouse
Six metres up in the old larches, at the end of the loop.
The dashed line is the lakeside loop.
A boathouse, a meadow and sixty summers
Fernwater started with a boathouse and a meadow that the Lind family let fishermen camp in. The fishermen came back with their families, the families came back with friends, and in 1968 the meadow got a water tap and a name.
We took over the keys in 2016 and changed as little as we could: the pitches are still far apart, the cars stay at the top, and the boathouse still smells of tar. What we added is mostly invisible: solar panels on the washhouse, a reed bed that cleans the water, and a rule that every new pitch needs a tree beside it.
- Of pine wood and meadow
- 12 ha
- The year the meadow got its name
- 1968
- Of our power from the sun and the river
- 100 %
- Wardens, one always on site
- 3
The camp code
Six rules, so the lake stays quiet and the next family finds the shore as you did.
Quiet from ten
Between 22:00 and 7:00 voices go down and speakers go off. Sound carries far over water.
Fires in the rings
Only in the fire rings, never during a fire ban, and never left alone. Buckets are by every ring.
Cars stay at the top
Unload at your pitch, then park by the gate. The shore belongs to people, not engines.
Dogs on a lead
Around camp and on the loop. They swim at the meadow beach, not at the jetty.
Leave no trace
Sort your rubbish at the washhouse, wash dishes at the sinks, never in the lake.
Say hello
To the wardens, to your neighbours, to the loons. It's a small camp.