This is more than your average lake house: It's a home in a gated island community in Craryville with just 14 other properties. 250 Island Drive in Craryville is right on the Copake Lake waterfront with over 100 feet of lake frontage, with a main house built in 2000. The property totals 2,720 square feet and sits on 1.1 acres with lots of trees for privacy. The home has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a third-floor sleeping loft, all arranged around a great room with double-height ceilings and an open kitchen, dining, and living area. While the property has obviously been maintained, the feel is fun and rustic, with painted plank panels in the outbuildings and a two-story, Adirondack-eqsue construction on the main house. 

A separate carriage house features a guest suite above a two-car garage, and a third structure, a cabin with built-in bunk beds and electricity, adds even more space for years of fun lake camp memories. You can invite the whole family up and meet around the large lakeside deck, take a dip in the four-season hot tub, and cannonball off the private dock extending into Copake Lake—the only high-speed motorboat lake in Columbia County. Fully approved architectural plans are also available for buyers interested in transforming the property into a 7,000-square-foot compound by linking and expanding the existing structures.

Accessed by a small bridge, the location is remote but close to Copake Country Club, two marinas, and a year-round restaurant. Hudson and Great Barrington are each about a 20-minute drive. 

250 Island Drive is listed for $2,495,000 by John Barbato of Copake Lake Realty.

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Francesca Olsen