"Our kids named a tiny island on a Maine lake 'One Tree Island.' Decades later, it named our cabins on Caribou Lake."
We're Nick and Katie — a brother and sister — and our partners Zach and Brigette. We grew up vacationing on Sebago Lake in Maine. Same cabin every summer, same dock, same loons calling at dusk. The kind of week that imprints on you.
When we started our own families, the tradition kept going. The cousins met in Maine every year — same lake, same week. But once we'd settled in Minnesota, the drive east kept getting longer, so we started looking for somewhere closer to carry it forward.
The North Shore quietly surprised us. There's a wildness here that reminds us a lot of coastal Maine — Lake Superior plays the part of the Atlantic, the Sawtooth Mountains the Whites, and the air smells of pine in the same way. We found Caribou Lake. Then we found two cabins on it — one on the sunrise side and one on the sunset side — and that's how we got here.
About the name. There's a tiny island in the middle of Sebago — really just a rock with one tree on it. Our kids named it One Tree Island when they were little. It stuck.
Caribou22 is our lakefront log cabin on the sunrise side of the lake — three bedrooms plus a lofted sleeping space, sleeping ten, with a wood-burning fireplace, kayaks at the dock, and the public boat launch right next door. The cabin built for the bigger gathering.
Caribou Hideaway is our four-bedroom family cabin on the sunset side. Sleeps eight, with a private dock and boat slip, a cozy fireplace, and a fire pit set right at the water's edge for the long evenings.
Both cabins are professionally cleaned, professionally maintained, and managed day-to-day through Evolve — which means you get the convenience of instant booking and 24/7 guest support, with the care of an owner-managed property behind it.
We hope you love it as much as we do. If you have questions before you book — about the area, about the cabins, about whether one suits your trip better than the other — we'd rather hear from you than have you guess. Email us anytime at caribou22wst@gmail.com.
