Our Beliefs and Practices
At Lake Creek Lodge, we welcome guests to a quietness of yesteryear where their passion for life and love of nature will be rekindled and their spirits rejuvenated. Our responsibility to preserve and protect the environment allows guests to enjoy nature in its purest state. We strive to reduce our footprint in the Metolius Basin by stewarding our property's historic legacy with care. We believe that family traditions are at the heart of Lake Creek Lodge and we aspire to continue weaving vacation memories for generations to come.
To this end, in 2004 we entered into a partnership with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, Oregon Fish & Wildlife, The Deschutes National Forest, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Deschutes River Conservancy to restore fish and wildlife habitat by replacing the retaining walls and the old swimming hole with a more natural stream channel. Lake Creek is one of the most important tributaries in the Metolius Basin for the reintroduction of Chinook and Sockeye salmon. This restoration will benefit resident and anadromous fish for years to come and serve as an outstanding example of private landowners working with Government agencies to restore important habitat.
During the restoration of Lake Creek, the construction of the new fishing pond, the access roads and the new cabin sites, we removed over 250 trees in conjunction with the US Forest Service. The trees were pushed over with their root wads intact and were then placed into Lake Creek and the Metolius River for habitat restoration, woody structure and cover for fry (little baby fish). When we constructed the pond we removed approximately 20,000 cu. yards of soil, sand, gravel & rock. The top soil has been used in landscaping and as cap and fill for the new sanitary sewer system. The rock was crushed on site and used to surface our new access roads. The sand and pea gravel is being used as trench back-fill as we construct our new sewer system and underground site utilities. All left over material was donated to the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council for use in the Whychus Creek restoration project in Sisters.
Our goal in the development of Lake Creek Lodge is to be as protective and responsible of our resources as possible. Nothing is wasted and we strive to reduce consumption, reuse our resources and recycle all that we can.
