This place is great for a for a SHORT get away in winter or summer. We went Dec 7-11. Need 4 wheel drive only be sun melts snow during the day & creates little ice ontop of road but isn't bad.
It would have been nice for someone to turn the heat up before we arrived, but it warmed up quick. The hot tub is NOT usable during the winter, which seemed the best time to use and feel there should be a discount for those days but each rental is different. They do allow pets. It would have been nice for the previous renter to clean the poo away from the doors but that is not a requirement. Their tv channels are almost useless, just bring a few movies. There is also no bathroom downstairs where bunkbeds are, fyi. Summer no tv would be needed bc you could be outside from sun up til bedtime but winter we wanted a couple different activities besides games & puzzles (which once the sun went down doing a puzzle was hard due to the lighting over the dinning table :/) I mentioned "short" stay a couple times because our biggest complaint is the kitchen and bedrooms. The main level bedroom our friends stayed in. We ended up taking the bed apart, took the down feathered topper off & rotating the mattress because they got zero sleep the 1st night. That seemed to help. The rooms come w zero dressers or shelves for your clothes. If you plan to stay a while & like to "unpack" this is not an option, fyi. (There is room for one in each room, there just isnt one).
The kitchen is not set up well at all. I understand not having top of the line w stuff incase stuff isnt cared for well, but we joked the whole time that they got stuff from the $1 store & what they did have was "just enough." The listing is for 8 people, well there are 6 bowls, 4, coffee cups, & some really random stuff like champagne glasses...better knives, better pans, more useful items & toss out useless items would be a good start. We didnt mind handwashing stuff because there wasnt a dishwasher, but you have to wash after each meal or you didn't have enough for the next meal (or even that one if your party was big enough.) The only space outside the fridge to store pantry stuff is a plastic shelf. If we had stayed more than the 4 days we would have had to be creative where to put it to keep our dogs out of it.
Cute, quiet, lots of aera to explore around it, a town not too far away, free hot springs about 2 hours away. Do enjoy!