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McHenry, Maryland · Biltmore at Lodestone
A perch above the mountain woods.
Brand-new construction, finished in May 2026. A hand-crafted five-bedroom chalet in the hardwoods — 2.7 miles from Wisp Resort, 3.9 from Deep Creek Lake — made for gathering through all four seasons, with room for everyone you love. The kind of place a family comes back to, season after season.
We're one family, and this is the one house we pour ourselves into. Whoever you're bringing, there's a place for them here — this house was made for the way real groups actually travel, and because we host every stay ourselves, we'll help you plan one that fits your people.
Skiing Families & Groups
Fast access to Wisp plus space for everyone to come home, warm up, and spread out.
Lake Life Getaways
Easy Deep Creek Lake days with a peaceful, wooded home base each night.
Hikers & Outdoor Explorers
Swallow Falls trails, scenic overlooks, and forest mornings right outside your door.
Couples Seeking Quiet
Cozy fireplaces, hot tub evenings, and calm spaces to truly unplug together.
Families of All Kinds
Multi-generational layouts, kid-friendly fun, and room to gather — with dining for 10 at the table and four at the kitchen counter.
Golf Trips & Girls' Weekends
Golf, ski, wine, and long low-key evenings back at the house — the kind of weekend everyone means to repeat.
Gallery
Come see for yourself.
A hand-crafted chalet in the hardwoods — the great room, the covered deck, the suites under the gable. Step through every room and view in the full gallery.
Hand-cut cedar, two-story stacked stone, tongue-and-groove pine — a house built to hold everyone you’d bring. What our family added is the rest: the long table, the welcome, the care behind every stay. Together, it became the Eagle’s Perch.
Cathedral ceilings and dark timber beams overhead. Floor-to-ceiling gable windows that frame the forest. A black clawfoot soaking tub on a bed of river stone. A private primary suite that takes up the entire upper floor.
A place to rest with family, with friends, or with the person you love — hosted by our family, one stay at a time.
The Builder
A custom build by Humberson Homes.
Every beam, stone, and cedar board is the work of Humberson Homes — a Garrett County custom builder working at the edge of Deep Creek Lake. The carved eagle at the entry, the two stacked-stone fireplaces, the maize-finished siding you won’t find on any other house on the mountain: all of it raised on site, by hand, one detail at a time.
They handed us the keys in May 2026. We spent the summer furnishing it room by room — every bed, chair and lamp chosen by our family rather than ordered as a rental package. What you walk into is a house that was finished twice: once by the builder, and once by us.
If a home of your own on the mountain is somewhere in your dreaming, this is the shop that can build it.
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The House
Three floors, room for everyone.
Main Floor
The great room, the kitchen, the heart.
Cathedral ceilings in wood-plank tongue-and-groove. Dark timber beams. A wall of floor-to-ceiling gable windows framing the forest. The two-story stacked-stone fireplace anchors the room.
Off the kitchen — with its stacked-stone island, white quartz waterfall counters, and amber mica pendants — the deck wraps three-quarters around the house. A pressed-copper foyer with a reclaimed pallet wall keeps wet gear in its place.
Main Level King SuiteQueen Guest Room2 Full BathsMain-Floor Foyer
Upper Level — Primary King Suite
An entire floor, yours.
A king bedroom framed by a slatted feature wall and vaulted wood. Step out to your own loft above the great room — set up as a sitting room and quiet workspace, with the gable window looking into the trees.
The en-suite is the showpiece: a black clawfoot soaking tub on river stone, a wood-tiled walk-in shower with rainfall head and pebble floor, brushed brass fixtures, marble counters, an LED touch mirror, and heated tile floors. A coffee bar tucked under the eaves — sink, mini-fridge, stone counter — for the morning before everyone else is awake.
Upper Level Primary King SuiteLoft Sitting Room / OfficeEn-Suite BathWalk-In ClosetCoffee Bar
Lower Level
The walk-out, the after-dark.
A pit-style sectional facing an 85-inch screen and the second stacked-stone gas fireplace. Arcade cabinets, a FlyBean board on the wall (toss canvas bags onto pegs for points), and a gaming console plugged in. A wet bar with its own fridge for restocking between rounds.
A queen bedroom and a dedicated bunk room with L-shaped bunks that sleeps four. The 9-foot slider opens straight from the lower patio into the game room — reached from the parking area by walking down and around the back of the house. Step out the lower-level slider and a shaded spot under the deck holds a hammock — the quietest corner of the house. Pull the shades, dim the lights, and it's a good spot for a film — and the sectional sleeps two more when it needs to.
Five bedrooms across three floors, plus the sectional downstairs — fourteen people, and nobody drawing the short straw.
Upper Level
Primary King Suite
King bed · en-suite bath · private loft
Sleeps 2
Main Floor
King Suite
King bed · full bath on the floor
Sleeps 2
Main Floor
Queen Guest Room
Queen bed · full bath on the floor
Sleeps 2
Lower Level
Queen Guest Room
Queen bed · full bath on the floor
Sleeps 2
Lower Level
Bunk Room
L-shaped twin bunks · four sleepers
Sleeps 4
Lower Level
Pit Sectional
In the game & movie room, for the overflow
Sleeps 2
14 guests · 5 bedrooms · 4 full baths · heated floors in every bath
What's Inside
The details that matter.
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Hot tub
Hot Spring Rhythm — seven-person spa with multi-color LED lighting. On its own pad beside the covered deck, steps from the slider. Open whether it's July or a January snowstorm. Hot tub is not fenced. Locking cover in place when not in use; children must be supervised.
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Two gas fireplaces
Two-story stacked-stone in the great room, a corner stone fireplace on the lower level. Warmth on the main floor and the lower level, each on its own turn-knob timer.
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Game & movie room
85-inch TV. Pac-Man and X-Men arcade cabinets, FlyBean board, gaming console. A pit sectional that seats the whole family for movie night.
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Three drink stations
Main kitchen with stone island, lower-level wet bar with its own fridge, and a coffee bar in the upper primary suite. No traffic jams.
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Stone fire pit
Set back in the wooded lot with natural rock seating. Marshmallows, stories, stars above the treeline. For daytime, cornhole boards and bags are stored under the deck, ready for the yard.
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Deck fire table
LP gas fire table on the covered deck, next to the hot tub. Turn the knob, settle in. The companion to the stone pit out back — same warmth, no setup, weather-proof through every shoulder-season night.
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Heating and cooling
Central air conditioning reaches every room on all three floors, and the Lennox thermostat is yours to set. Heated tile floors in all four bathrooms for the other half of the year.
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Main-floor foyer
Pressed-copper tin ceiling, reclaimed pallet wall, dedicated hooks and boot boxes. Wet gear has a home.
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Every bath, considered
Heated tile floors and LED touch mirrors in all four bathrooms. On a January morning, a warm floor underfoot is the kind of small thing you remember.
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EV charger
On-site charging for one vehicle. Arrive on a long drive, leave with a full battery.
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Over 3,100 square feet
Three finished floors, five bedrooms, four full baths — and enough room that fourteen people are not standing in each other’s way. Everyone gets somewhere to be.
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Parking for five
Five total parking spots on the drive — one is set up as an EV charging spot. Bring the whole crew.
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The deck, three sides
A wraparound deck circles three sides of the house, plus a covered deck with a ceiling fan, a wall heater above the door, two gas flame towers, and a gas fire table — somewhere to sit outside in any weather.
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Two grills
A Weber gas grill and a Blackstone flat-top griddle on the deck. Steaks and burgers, or pancakes and smash tacos for the whole crew.
Year-Round
Built for four seasons.
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Winter
Dec — Mar
2.7 miles to Wisp's lifts. Come home to the hot tub under falling snow, hang wet gear in the main-floor foyer, and warm up by one of two gas fireplaces.
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Spring
Apr — May
Mornings on the Lodestone course, afternoons on Swallow Falls trails, evenings around the stone fire pit as the woods come back to life.
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Summer
Jun — Aug
Deep Creek Lake is 3.9 miles out. Boats, kayaks, whitewater. Home base is the wraparound deck, the grill, and a game room the kids will take over.
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Fall
Sep — Nov
The mountain turns gold and crimson. Fewer crowds, cooler nights, the kind of October that makes everyone text "one more day?"
Location
Gated. Wooded. Minutes from everything.
Set in the private Biltmore at Lodestone community on Marsh Mountain — the same mountain Wisp Resort sits on, though we are 2.7 miles from the lifts, not slopeside. From the door: 2.7 miles to Wisp Resort, 3.9 to Deep Creek Lake, 10.7 to its state park, and 5.8 to Maryland's tallest waterfall.
Stay close to Wisp and Deep Creek Lake — and the quieter local spots families remember most.
The Perch from above — deck, hot tub, and hardwoods on every side.
The Eagle's PerchDeep Creek LakeLodestone Golf
One frame, three answers: the house in the trees at lower left, Lodestone running through the middle, and Deep Creek Lake on the horizon.
The Perch sits between Wisp Resort, Deep Creek Lake, and Swallow Falls — minutes from each.
Right outside
The Community
Biltmore at Lodestone is laced with quiet, paved roads and almost no through-traffic — easy for a morning walk, a bike ride, or the kids on scooters, with the woods and the golf course right there.
2.7 miles
Wisp Resort
2.7 miles to the lifts. Skiing and tubing in winter; scenic chairlift rides and golf seasonally. Check Wisp for current operations.
1.5 miles
Lodestone Golf
A Hale Irwin & Todd Schroeder-designed eighteen on the highest course elevation in Maryland, with the lake in the distance. Semi-private, with public tee times available — and it wraps the community you’re staying in.
3.2 miles
Lakeside Park
A quiet community spot on Deep Creek Lake — and as our guest, you are invited to use it while you’re here. Walk the shoreline, cast a line, or settle into an Adirondack chair under the pavilion and watch the water.
3.9 miles
Deep Creek Lake
3.9 miles to the water. Boating, kayaking, paddle-boarding, fishing, and lakeside dining on Maryland’s largest freshwater lake.
10.7 miles
Deep Creek Lake State Park
The lake’s main beach, around the far shore — two guarded swimming beaches, kayak and paddleboard rentals, picnic tables, and playgrounds. Behind it, more than twenty miles of hiking and biking trails wind through 1,800 wooded acres — your trailhead for a forest morning.
5.8 miles
Swallow Falls
Maryland’s tallest waterfall, a trail through old-growth hemlocks, and some of the finest hiking in the region.
A note on the gated community
Biltmore at Lodestone is a private residential community with quiet hours from 10 PM to 7 AM and a maximum of five parked vehicles. Boats, trailers, RVs, and campers cannot be parked or stored at the property — community covenants require enclosed garage storage, which this home does not have. We're glad to recommend nearby marinas and storage facilities — just let us know in advance.
From snow tubing to alpaca visits, there's more here than one weekend can hold.
The Eagle's Perch began as a place we wanted for our own family — somewhere to gather, slow down, and make new memories.
What we hope, more than anything, is that other families find the same thing here. A long table built for Thanksgiving. A great room that holds everyone. Three floors so the kids can be loud and the grandparents can rest. A wraparound deck for the long after-dinner conversations.
When you reach out, you're talking to us — the family who found this house, furnished it room by room, and looks after every stay.
— The Eagle's Perch family
Getting In
Access, plainly.
We would rather tell you now than have you find out at the door. Here is exactly what
the approach to this house is like.
There is a wheelchair ramp at the back of the house leading up to the covered deck. It is a real
ramp, not a temporary one. The ramp is reached across about 20 feet of grass and a rock walkway from the driveway — not a paved path. The slider from the covered deck into the dining area has an opening over 40 inches wide. The ramp is
37 inches wide between the handrails. The slider from that deck into the house has a step up of 5½ inches,
and that is the same at all three of the main-floor deck sliders.
The ramp at the back of the house, 37 inches wide between the handrails.
There is no fully step-free entry. The lowest threshold in the house is the basement
slider at just under an inch and a half, reached from the driveway by going down and around the back of the house. A
portable mat is on hand for either door.
The driveway and all of the parking are gravel, not paved. It is worth knowing if anyone
in your group uses a wheelchair, a walker or a cane, or if you are bringing wheeled luggage.
Inside, the bedroom and bathroom doors are 30 inches wide. The front door is 36 inches, and all four nine-foot exterior sliders are the same unit and give an opening of about 41 to 42 inches. The showers are not roll-in; the main-level shower
has a step-in of about four inches. Portable grab bars are available on request. The house isn’t ADA-compliant, so these measurements are here to help you decide.
If someone in your group has specific access needs, email us before you book and we will tell you honestly
whether the Perch is the right fit.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What's included in the rate?
Linens and towels, and the everyday things you would otherwise stop for on the way in: coffee, shampoo, conditioner, body soap, hand soap, dish soap and dish tabs, paper towels and toilet paper. Basic spices and pantry staples are in the kitchen, which is equipped down to the cookware. We stock these to start you off rather than to last a week for fourteen, and the grocery store is a few minutes down the mountain. The hot tub is open year-round. The cleaning fee, accidental damage protection, a flat pet fee per stay if you’re bringing dogs, and Maryland state and Garrett County lodging taxes are all itemized in the total you see when you pick your dates — nothing is added later.
What is the accidental damage protection charge?
For direct bookings, a $79 per-stay accidental damage protection plan applies, subject to its coverage terms and exclusions. For direct bookings, a separate $500 card authorization hold is scheduled one day before arrival, with release scheduled two days after departure, subject to the rental agreement. Bank processing times vary. Coverage is limited by the plan terms; intentional damage and missing items are not covered. For bookings through Airbnb or Vrbo, refer to the protection and payment terms shown on that channel.
When do we pay?
Half when you book, and the balance 14 days before you arrive — collected automatically from the same card, so there’s nothing to remember. If your arrival is inside 14 days, it’s paid in full at booking.
What's your cancellation policy?
For direct bookings, 100% of total booking charges is refundable when you cancel more than 30 days before arrival, and 50% is refundable when you cancel more than 7 days before arrival. Within 7 days of arrival, no refund is issued. You also have a 24-hour free-cancellation grace period after booking if arrival is at least 15 days away when you book. For channel bookings, the cancellation policy displayed on that channel applies.
Is firewood provided?
The two indoor fireplaces run on the property’s LP tank — each has a turn-knob timer on the lower right side of the unit, so you set it and it shuts itself off. The covered-deck fire table runs on its own 20 lb LP bottle. None of the three needs wood. The outdoor stone fire pit is wood-burning; we don’t supply firewood, and bundles are a couple of dollars at any nearby gas station or grocery.
What time is check-in and check-out? Can we arrive early?
Standard check-in is 4 PM and check-out is 10 AM, which gives us time to get the house properly ready for you. Early check-in or late check-out is sometimes possible depending on the schedule — just ask when you inquire and we'll do what we can.
Is there a minimum stay?
Two-night minimum on most dates; some holiday dates require longer.
Do you allow dogs?
Yes — up to two dogs, 50 lbs each, with a flat pet fee per stay (whether you bring one dog or two). We ask that pets stay off the furniture and that you clean up in the yard. If everyone’s heading out, we just ask that the dogs stay crated while you’re gone.
Is the hot tub really open in winter?
Yes — The Hot Spring Rhythm holds temperature beautifully through Garrett County winters, and stepping into a 102° tub while snow is falling outside is one of the great small pleasures of this house.
Are there quiet hours?
Yes — 10 PM to 7 AM, per community policy. Sound carries a long way in the woods.
Is there a minimum age to book?
We host families and multi-generational groups. The reservation holder must be 25 or older and must be staying at the house for the booking.
Can we have visitors during our stay?
Yes. Day visitors are welcome as long as the total number of people on the property stays at 14 or fewer at any one time. Overnight stays are for registered guests only.
How many cars can we bring, and where do we park?
Five total parking spots on the gravel drive, one of which is the EV charging spot. There is no street parking in the community.
Can we smoke on the property?
No — the Eagle's Perch is a smoke-free property, indoors and out. That includes the decks, the front porch and the yard.
Can we host an event, party, or wedding?
The Perch is a retreat, not a venue. Weddings, parties, and large gatherings beyond the registered guest count aren't permitted.
How do we get to the lake?
Guests are a short drive from WRMA's Lakeside Park (walking and fishing only), 3.2 miles away. For swimming and boat launching, Deep Creek Lake State Park is 10.7 miles out, and Bill's Marine is another nearby option.
How new is the house?
Very. Humberson Homes finished the build in May 2026, and we spent the summer that followed furnishing it ourselves — room by room, every bed, chair and lamp chosen by our family rather than ordered as a rental package. Depending on when you book, you may be among the first families to stay here. Everything from the mattresses to the cookware is new, and nothing has been through a decade of turnovers.
Is the house accessible?
There is a wheelchair ramp at the back of the house leading up to the covered deck — 37 inches wide between the handrails — and the slider from that deck has a step up of 5½ inches. The ramp is reached across about 20 feet of grass and a rock walkway from the driveway — not a paved path. The slider from the covered deck into the dining area has an opening over 40 inches wide and a 5½-inch step up. There is no fully step-free entry — the lowest threshold is the basement slider, measured at just under an inch and a half, and a portable mat is on hand for either door. The driveway and all parking are gravel, not paved. Interior doors are 30 inches wide — the front door is 36 inches, and the nine-foot exterior sliders open more than 40 inches. The showers are not roll-in, and portable grab bars are available on request. The house is not ADA-compliant. Email us before booking if someone in your group has specific needs.
Are there security cameras on the property?
Three exterior cameras are in use — a video doorbell at the front entry and two covering the driveway and parking area. All face outward, audio is off, and none view the wraparound deck, covered deck, hot tub, fire pit or yard. There are no cameras inside the house.
Here’s our live calendar — open nights are yours for the asking. Pick your dates and you’ll see the whole number before you send anything: the nightly rate, the cleaning fee, taxes, and your direct-booking discount already taken off. Then send it to us. We’ll confirm the dates are really yours and send back a payment link. Booking with us directly keeps more of your money on the trip, not on platform fees.
Availability updates in real time. Have a question about a date? Email us any time.
Request your dates
Pick your dates and tell us a little about your group. Two-night minimum on most dates; some holiday dates require longer. We read every request ourselves — no account, no pressure.
You already saw your total, so there’s no surprise coming. We read every request ourselves, usually the same day, and reply with your confirmation, the rental agreement, and a secure payment link. No account, no platform in the middle — you're talking with the family who hosts every stay. Your direct-booking discount is already in the number you saw.
Plan With Us
Not ready to pick dates? Ask us anything.
A question about the house, help finding the right week for your group, or just hello. Leave a note and we'll get back to you personally.
Now booking, all four seasons. Reach out any time — you'll always get one of us.
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Before You Go
We’d love to host you.
Have dates in mind? Our live calendar is a click away, and every request is read by the family who hosts every stay.
The Eagle's Perch
Deep Creek Lake
Lodestone Golf
