Entire home

Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community.

The screened in, mosquito proof porch, has beautiful views of the water and various wildlife, including a local family of bald eagles.

There is also a bed swing that provides relaxing afternoon naps.

Morning sunrise and evening sunset are awesome.

The swing is made with a half size Sealy matter. (great Sunday afternoon nap)

The french doors open to provide expansion to the large mosquito proof porch.

Overview
Amenities
Policies
Location
Host

Exceptional

2 bedrooms2 bathroomsSleeps 61800 sq ft

Popular amenities

Dryer
Washer
Barbecue grill
Parking available
Kitchen
Outdoor space

Explore the area

Athens, AL

Wheeler Lake
‪1 min drive‬
Athens State University
‪25 min drive‬
Joe Wheeler State Park
‪39 min drive‬
Huntsville, AL (HSV-Huntsville Intl.)
‪55 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

2 bedrooms (sleeps 6)

Bedroom 1

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 2

1 King Bed

2 bathrooms

Bathroom 1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Bathroom 2

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Deck or patio

Kitchen

Dining area

About this property

Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community.

This house is a very comfortable 2 bedroom, 2 bath waterfront property. It has a large bed swing and TV on a screened in porch that allows for beautiful evenings watching the sun go down. There is plenty of room for additional air mattresses for more than four people. There is Directv and internet in the house. There is also a washer and dryer, iron and ironing board and microwave. The area is well know for crappie, bass and catfish.

Property manager

Mark Blakely

Premier Host

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Amenities

Kitchen

Washing machine

Dryer

Air conditioning

Outdoor space

Parking available

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View during winter, full wall of windows (before floors were redone with LVP)

Kitchen
Washer
Dryer
Pet-friendly

House Rules

Check in after 4:00 PM

Minimum age to rent: 21

Check out before 11:00 AM

Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17

Events

No events allowed

Pets

No pets allowed

Smoking

Smoking is not permitted

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed

On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited

Host has not indicated whether there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property; consider bringing a portable detector with you on the trip

Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property

Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher and a deadlock

About the area

Athens

Located in Athens, this holiday home is on the waterfront. Crutcher Shopping Center and Athens Shopping Center are worth checking out if shopping is on the agenda, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore Elk River Lodge State Park and Joe Wheeler State Park. Make sure you get close to the area's animals with activities such as game walks and birdwatching.

Athens, AL

What's nearby

Wheeler Lake - 1 min drive - 0.4 km
Athens State University - 25 min drive - 23.5 km
Big Spring Park - 25 min drive - 23.5 km
Joe Wheeler State Park - 39 min drive - 39.1 km
US Space and Rocket Center - 58 min drive - 66.2 km

Getting around

Huntsville International Airport (HSV) - 45 min drive

Restaurants

‪Mike’s Cafe - ‬12 min drive
‪New Cut Minimart - ‬9 min drive
‪Kitchen - ‬18 min drive
‪Hickory Barn BBQ - ‬13 min drive
‪Smiley's Diner - ‬14 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community. pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

What time is check-in at Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community.?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community.?

Checkout is at 11:00 AM.

Where is Beautiful Wheeler Lake Home In Quiet Community. located?

Situated on the waterfront, this holiday home is steps from Wheeler Lake and 2.7 mi (4.3 km) from Elk River. Christopher Park and Athens Limestone Hospital are also within 12 miles (20 km).

Exceptional

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10/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

10/10

Communication

10/10

Location

10/10

Listing accuracy

10/10 Excellent

Carol S.

13 Mar, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Loved the porch

Sitting on the porch in the morning with my coffee, hearing the birds and watching the water was great. The rest of the house was great too.

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Cindy T.

26 Jun, 2025

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Perfect fishing trip

My family and I had a wonderful stay at this cabin on the Elk River. The cabin was spotless upon arrival—everything was clean, well-maintained, and thoughtfully arranged. You can tell the owners take pride in keeping it welcoming and comfortable. The peacefulness of the location was exactly what we needed. Waking up to the sounds of nature and enjoying quiet evenings by the water made for a truly relaxing experience. Perfect spot for fishing, unwinding, and getting away from it all. Mark came by to check on us and asked if we needed anything, which was truly thoughtful. We will definitely be back!

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jeff L.

7 Oct, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fiddler Convention

Wonderful screened in deck. Quiet, convenient and comfortable

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Bryan M.

26 Nov, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Wheeler Lake stay

Very nice property. Clean house. Great view. Quiet.

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Van P.

13 Oct, 2024

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great Lake House

Had an excellent time in Oct '24 at Marks lake house. Great views and the home was larger than expected from the photos. Very clean. The kayaks and dock were a great bonus...we had a great time catching fish. Great communication with the owner. Would like to come visit again!

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jodi B.

4 Sept, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fantastic Property

We stayed over Labor Day weekend, the property was perfect for us. Its much bigger than it looks in the pictures. It has everything you could want to do. Our kids loved l having their own area downstairs. Owner is super quick to respond. It was a great unplug and unwind weekend.

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

David W.

1 Aug, 2018

Great Waterfront Getaway

Our family of 6 stayed for 3 nights in Mark’s great cabin on the Elk River. The house was well equipped and had plenty of room for all 6 us. Our oldest son with his fiancée visited for the day as well. We all loved the dock to fish and swim from and we especially enjoyed the use of the kayaks, none of us wanted to leave. It was nice having a gas grill there as well. Mark was very prompt and informative when communicating with us and he made our stay easy and relaxing. We highly recommend this waterfront rental and we will be recommending it to our family and friends and will be staying here again in the future, hopefully for much longer next time!

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

David W.

10 Jun, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Nice Elk River Getaway

This is a nice waterfront rental that our family really enjoyed, for the 2nd time. Mark is a great host, very friendly and accomodating and he ensured we had everything we needed after we got there. The cabin was clean and had everything we needed and a great deck to view the river from and a waterfront dock to launch the kayaks from or fish. I highly recommend this cabin or his other cabin next door if you want a peaceful getaway. Do be advised that the internet service is very limited due to not anything else available in that rural area, not an issue for us though it was great to unplug for a while. We did have enough cell service to make calls and use our data as needed. Again, highly recommend! We will definitely stay in one of Marks cabins again!

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jeff L., Hoover, AL

9 Oct, 2023

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fiddlers Weekend

The property was great. We travel to Athens yearly for Fiddlers Convention and this property was away enough to be quiet, but convenient to trails, fishing and ASU. The upper deck is perfect for drinking a cup of coffee and watch sunrise or sunset. Do make sure to get managers phone number before arriving. Had to drive several miles to get enough phone signal to look up phone number because of a problem with entry code. Once got in contact, got the problem solved immediately. Clean, quiet, and beautiful view out in the countryside where you can see the stars. GREAT STAY!

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Faye S., Mobile Al

24 Oct, 2021

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location with view

We enjoyed our retreat and time away. Closed in back porch is perfect for morning coffee and quiet conversation. Thank you Mark. You are the perfect host.

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Doris P.

7 Dec, 2020

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great place

The house was great with a beautiful view. A really good place to relax away from everything sun rise was amazing. Mark was very nice and made sure we had everything I would greatly recommend this place.

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2020

10/10 Excellent

beth y.

30 Oct, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Green cabin

Enjoyed the quiet and wildlife and the porch is great! Rain didn’t help fishing but was very relaxing and refreshing.

10/10 Excellent

Bill G.

7 Oct, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Little Green House

Beautiful location, peaceful. We enjoyed the screened in porch a lot. Lots of wildlife. House was well equipped.

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Mark M.

28 May, 2019

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fantastic cabin and owners

This is by far the best cabinet that we have ever rented. It is very nice and the location is perfect. Very quiet and peaceful. I can’t wait to return here again. I would recommend this to anyone. Absolutely love the screened in deck and boat dock

10/10 Excellent

Mia S.

16 May, 2019

Perfect Stay

This is a GREAT place to stay. It is clean and comfortable. The screened in porch is so peaceful. The fishing was fantastic. My family is already talking about going again.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Debbie L., Moulton, Alabama

24 Mar, 2019

Great house and view!

We had a great stay here! The water was low, which Mark informed us about before our stay, but we were able to fish and kayak anyway. This is a very comfortable house and Mark went the extra mile to be sure we were able to enjoy it!

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Mary M.

11 Mar, 2019

Perfect Weekend Getaway!

This was the perfect place for a quick weekend getaway. The owner was amazing and made sure we had everything we needed! The weather wasn’t great, but our kids still had a blast. The tornado sirens went off and the owner called to let us know where the tornado was relative to us. That’s great service for people not familiar with the area. We will be back!

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Hadley L.

5 Mar, 2019

We all loved it!! We all dream to have a place like this of our own someday!!

Beautiful place to stay very well taken care of as well!! Mark was always quick to answer questions if we had them and made sure everything was perfect for us! We even caught some nice catfish from his dock to eat! We look forward to coming and staying again here in the near future!! Thanks for everything

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

10/10 Excellent

Glen G.

17 Sept, 2018

Great view on the river and fantastic home.

The home was really nice. Modern with upstairs and downstairs bedrooms. 2-complete bathrooms. Really nice screened in porch. Very quiet and relaxing. Very large dock to hang out on and sun bath, fish off of or read a book. I would highly recommend this home. Mark is a great host.

Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Robbie L.

19 Aug, 2018

Nice quiet house on the river for a great price

This house was better than expected. The price was great and the location was even better. The river side of the house was fully in the shade by 4 in the afternoon which makes for some very cool afternoons. Dock was recently redone and a great place to hang out. River was deep enough around the dock to jump in and float around which we did often. Best part of the house was the screened in porch, which we used every morning and afternoon. Mark was a great host. He was very responsive to all our needs. He even took us up river and dropped us off so we could kayak back down to the house! I wish we could have stayed longer than we did and would recommend this house to anybody looking for a getaway on the water.

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Debbie K.

17 Aug, 2018

Beautiful Setting and well maintained.

This property is sitting right on the river with two decks. Enjoyed drinking my coffee and watching the wildlife and the birds. We also sat on the dock in the afternoons. The cabin is well appointed and had everything we needed. Comfortable beds, which is always a plus. Mark came by to check on us and made us feel so welcome. We hope to go back again some day. Loved every minute.

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Beverly C.

30 Jun, 2018

Sisters time

I spend a wonderful time, but way too short, with my four sisters at Mark’s place. We had a great time and our favorite place to chat was on the back porch over looking the water. First thing in the morning and last place at night was that beautiful view, especially with the moon reflecting in the water. I really hope to go back again. Thank you Mark. You are a wonderful host. We were so pleased to meet you. Your history lessons were great! Thanks again.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Harold W.

9 Jun, 2018

Amazing property

The host was incredible. The setting was beautiful. The bed was very comfortable. The deck was my favorite!

10/10 Excellent

susan h.

18 May, 2018

Beautiful view, warm and cozy.

Mark was wonderful, and welcoming. He made sure we had everything we needed. The home was just perfect and the view mesmerizing. Loved the screened in porch . Thank you Mark for such a wonderful time.

Stayed 4 nights in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Michael O.

5 May, 2018

Awesome trip

So quiet and peaceful. Just the place we were looking for. Great view from the screened in porch. Thanks Mark for the kayak trip - one of the best ever !!

Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2018

About the host

Hosted by Mark Blakely

This is our personal river property that we truly enjoy with the grandkids and only live four miles from the property.

Why they chose this property

This is a quiet community and beautiful view from the screened in porch. The dock also has slips for two boats.

What makes this property unique

Kayaks are available for renters on the property. There is a public boat ramp at the Sportsman Park Convenience Store one mile away and also a private boat launch a few hundred yards away.

Things to do:

Marbut's Bend Accessible Trail http://www.visitathensal.com/marbut-bend.html 7 miles from the property.

Richard Martin Trail https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/alabama/richard-martin-trail 13 miles from the property.

Joe Wheeler State Park https://www.alapark.com/parks/joe-wheeler-state-park
Golf course, boat rental, swimming beach area, hiking trails, disc golf course and event facilities. 15 miles

Rogersville, AL Splash Park 13 miles

Swan Creek Greenway National Recreation Trail https://www.americantrails.org/resources/swan-creek-greenway-national-recreation-trail-athens-alabama 14 miles from the property.

Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center https://www.fws.gov/refuge/wheeler/ 40 miles

The Red Caboose Restaurant https://theredcaboosecafe.us 14 miles

Chevre https://www.bellechevre.com 14 miles

US Space & Rocket Center https://www.rocketcenter.com 43 miles

Huntsville Botanical Garden http://hsvbg.org 36 miles

The Early Works Family of Museums http://hsvbg.org 40 miles