Luxurious Lakefront Log Cabin For Sale on Little Sebago Lake in Gray, Maine

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Luxurious Lakefront Log Cabin For Sale on Little Sebago Lake in Gray, Maine

Log Cabin Style Home on Little Sebago Lake in Gray, Maine

A luxurious, two story, lakefront log home overlooks Turtle Cove on Little Sebago Lake in Gray. Located at 18 Turtle Cove Road, it’s a memorable, family gathering place with views of wildlife and all the comings and goings along the water.


The current owners purchased the house in 2001, but are now ready to slow down their pace and downsize to a condo. Having said that, they love this cove and the house, which feels like a cottage. Being constructed of all wood, “it welcomes people without being formal,” they tell us.
The 1,868 square-foot house is situated on a gradually sloping one-acre lot and has ten rooms, including three bedrooms and four baths. On the first level you’ll find a dining room, kitchen, living room, master bedroom and two additional bedrooms. The finished basement is home to guest quarters, with a bedroom and galley kitchen. A three-car garage with a workshop and plenty of space for storage can easily be renovated for another “upstairs” apartment.
Large family and friend functions are accommodated with ease. There’s plenty of room on the lot for tents and trailers, plus that separate downstairs apartment for privacy. Serve lobster cooked in the fire pit and don’t forget to roast marshmallows for s’mores. “Even with large parties (150+ people), once when it rained while we were cooking lobster,” say the current owners, “so we moved the party to the garage where we ate, played music and danced!”
The property includes 150 feet of waterfront with a sandy beach and private dock providing a base for all of your water activities. With the lake right off the backyard, the house makes for a great fishing vacation or stay-cation. Little Sebago Lake is one of the premier bass lakes in southern Maine. “The best fishing in the lake is right underneath our dock–bass and bream have their nests and you can watch the little fish grow up right before your eyes,” the owners say.
The lake covers 1,898 acres and is about 5 ½ miles in length.  The serpentine shoreline of the lake is fun to explore via canoe, kayak, paddleboat, or powerboat. The current owners love “all the coves and niches where you can kayak or canoe (or pontoon) to see wildlife and take pictures.” They also have enjoyed the wonderful sandbars for family gatherings. Little Sebago, located just east of its much larger brother, Sebago Lake, actually consists of three distinct basins, northern, middle and southern.
From this property, the owners tell us they enjoy watching “all the activity of boats going from Middle Lake to Upper Lake.” They also love Turtle Cove, “where loons mate and raise their young, ducks nest and raise their ducklings, and turtles swim out and sun on the large rocks in the middle of the cove.” Surrounded by trees, the property is occasionally visited by deer, porcupines and skunks. Eagles soar above and other birds can often be seen or heard.
On the back side of the house, away from the lake, beautiful gardens with fruit trees (peaches, plums, apple, blueberry, raspberry) and perennial plants will beckon you to sit in your Adirondack chair for a bit and admire the view. Or take a book down to the hammock between the trees by the lake and read, snooze or watch the boat activity.
Set your sails for piratic fun and adventure on the lake because you’ll want to join your neighbors by dressing up and bedecking your boat for the annual Pirate parade.  The parade advances down the length of the three basins and ends at the sand dunes. The owners tell us that “Kids, especially, love to ‘water gun’ other boats, and one group even has a cannon that shoots popcorn at the other boats.”
At the end of the day, let a crackling fire warm you after an evening dip. Or enjoy the peace of water lapping at the shore or the breeze passing through the trees while you rock in a chair on the porch of your lakefront home.
 

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