Unique, Attractive Hexagon Cedar Lodge in the Woods

OUR OLD FASHIONED "HOME IN THE WOODS" provides guests with a quiet bed & breakfast experience on beautiful Beaver Island. Tara's Meadow is also a retreat and educational center with 30 private acres of adjacent forest and meadow to roam. We have access to lakes and trails, marshes and nature preserves nearby, within a short walk to Miller's Marsh Natural Area and beautiful Greene's Lake with its 300 year old oaks on the shore.

YOUR ON SITE HOST is a history and environment professor, and is director of the historic "Tara's Meadow" nonprofit nature sanctuary. Seamus provides guests privacy and/or services as you wish, including on site tours of the adjacent 30 acre nature sanctuary, and use of its private new lovely Amish-built cabin in the Meadow and/or geodesic dome in the forest, for the adventuresome who enjoy "glamping" and a full solitude experience. Seamus can also be contracted for history and environment tours of the entire Island on request. He also offers guests one full-cooked breakfast on the day of their choosing. At Tara's Meadow we welcome individuals and couples seeking quiet repose and explorations of Beaver Island, as well as small groups for special retreats and educational event

OUR BEAUTIFUL CEDAR HOME WITH ITS UNIQUE, HEXAGON DESIGN features a lovely guest room downstairs with private entrance and private bathroom, simple and comfortable kitchen and living facilities with an outside deck and fire circle. As you climb the spiral staircase you enter our healing "in the round" meditation space upstairs in the soft green light of the forest, with additional beds, a half-bath, and small balcony overlooking the forest. Visitors and pilgrims can stay with us upstairs or downstairs in our quiet forest home, or the more adventuresome can choose the solitude of our 20' geodesic dome or the Amish-built cabin for simple rustic "glamping" out in the Meadow. Seamus is kind and helpful with guests, having welcomed and hosted hundreds of visitors to Tara’s Meadow. He is sensitive to guests needs for privacy, offering them helpful interaction only when that is so desired.

BATHROOMS, SLEEPING QUARTERS We have a full bath for your private use downstairs adjoining our kitchen, living room, and guest room. Couples will enjoy our lovely private guest room downstairs, which has a queen-sized bed for two, closet, dresser, a beautiful birch tree view, and a separate private entrance/exit to the forest outdoors. Families often love to include the upstairs “tree house” meditation quarters, sleeping “in the round” cedar and oak room, with its cupola and skylight windows overhead. We provide comfortable mattresses on the oak floor for sleeping up to 4 in the tree house meditation room. It comes with a half bathroom upstairs and a deck out overlooking the forest.

THE BEAVER ISLAND ARCHIPELAGO is composed of ten small islands that peek above the fresh waters of northeast Lake Michigan, far enough from the mainland to be environmentally distinct and relatively well preserved. An abundance of natural life thrives: 19 mammal species and hundreds of fish, bird, insect, and plant species all supported by a remarkable variety of beaches, forests, wetlands, and other habitats. The large inhabited Island contains 6 inland lakes and representations of every ecosystem in Michigan. And on the biggest island, Beaver, stands the great lake's largest settlement - a year-round community for seven generations, distinct for its relaxed pace, quality of life, and resilience. The inhabitants of Beaver Island are warm and welcoming, and include folks of historic Irish and Native American descent as well as many friendly folks of more recent residency on the Island.