PondView Lodge 34

🏡 PondView Lodge Overview

• Sleeps: 18 (10 in main room, 6 in additional room, 2 in a separate adult room)

• Audience: IDEAL for INTERMEDIATE Scouts

🛏️ Layout & Features

• Interior:

  • Nicely finished cabin

  • Woodstove

  • 3-burner propane-ready indoor stove

  • Food prep area

  • Fireplace with fireplace-insert

  • Bunks with mattresses

• Exterior:

  • 2 picnic tables

  • FirePit

  • Covered porch

  • Overlooks Nupp’se Pond

🧭 Location & Access

• GPS Coordinates: 42.35082, -71.44171

• Distance: 0.355 miles - carry in/carry out.

• Trail Conditions: The trail to Pond View Lodge is a moderate hike from the parking lot over sloped terrain with lots of tree roots. Do not try to pull a garden cart up Pond Trail.

• Directions: Take Belden’s Way to Pond Trail. → At the end of Pond Trail, take a left on Gen. John Nixon Trail. → PondView Lodge is a few hundred yards up the trail on your right, just before the intersection with Thirty Rod Trail.

🏕️ Tent Capacity

• Tenting: Fantastic, ample tenting for 40+ scouts all around the cabin.

🚰 Amenities

• Modern Amenities:

  • Electric lights

  • No water

  • No indoor plumbing

• Nearby Resources: Lodge is very convenient to both latrines and water. Nearest latrine is at the corner of the site. Nearest water pump is a very short walk at Legion Lodge.

🌲 Experience & Environment

• Character: A large and comfortable lodge with electric lights and excellent tenting. It's one of the closest locations to the parking lot. Right off the porch is Nupp’se Pond, a shallow, mucky kettle pond, containing water for part of the year. Latrines and water are very close.

• Best For: Groups who prefer a very nicely appointed cabin, with electric lights, great tenting, and are close to latrines and water, that is less remote.

• Feel: A large and comfortable lodge with electric lights and excellent tenting. The location is one of the closest to the parking lot and offers a great view of Nupp’se Pond.