Even once they had the budget to build a vacation home, Andrew Mitchell and Rebecca Shaw didn’t want to lose the rustic appeal of camping and the experience of living directly in nature.
“We grew up spending our summers doing a lot of canoe tripping in Algonquin Park and Killarney Park,” in Ontario, Canada, where paddlers pitch tents at remote campsites, said Mr. Mitchell, 40, a software engineer.
He and Dr. Shaw, a 40-year-old physician, had visited cottages in Muskoka, a popular vacation region about 125 miles north of their primary home in Toronto, and were dismayed to find that many of the lakes were crowded with homes packed tightly together and noisy motorboats.
“We wanted something that felt much more like you were out in the middle of a provincial park, on a canoe trip, where you couldn’t see or hear anybody,” Mr. Mitchell said.
They looked for property for a few years before finding a place that seemed ideal. It was a 180-acre remote, wooded expanse in the Muskoka region with a rocky peninsula extending into a small lake.
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