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The Cabin
Area... community planning at it's finest. Timber Lakes has been around
since the early 70's. It covers thousands of acres and is nestled up by National Forest. The founding developers
cut a bunch of roads and started selling cabin lots.. no one did any soil stability tests to speak of and it was a time
of 'the good ol boys' running things. Over the years there have been several issues with migrating cabins due to poor
soil stability, land slide etc. You can still find the skeletons if you poke around. They originally planned
this place for summer access only, buried a water system quite shallow and called it all good. Well now that the
area has hundreds of cabins and the water system that was never planned to capacity is being dug out street by street
and put in right. Once people started building they realized that they needed fire hydrants. Sometimes insurance
might be necessary when you build your cabin nestled in a grade 3 fire zone. ..and no insurance companies would do so
without hydrants! A brilliant plan was crafted and hydrants were put in. All was fine until someone TESTED the hydrants
and found out that they were just stuck in the ground like birthday candles- never connected to any source of water.
Even as recent as a few years ago you could still find some of the old mailbox-like hydrants laying around. Funny story about my friend's cabin... So he buys this place (incidentally construction like
this are not a rarity here) a nice cabin, built in the late 90's. He loves it, finished in beautiful knotty pine. He
has friends over and they use the guest bath. He goes outside later that day and wonders where all of the soap bubbles
are coming from in his back yard... story turns out that the plumber never made a drain line; the shower drain was left to
drain onto the ground under the cabin. Welcome to Timber Lakes. RESERVATIONS:
Call or text at 801-859-2535 CALENDAR:
Click for our current booking calendar EMAIL: contct us
to get 48hr date holds... theaspenmoose@yahoo.com
| Want to buy your own LAKE? So when Timber
Lakes was established with premiere planning and grand vision the dozen or so lakes were seen as a potential source of income...
"let's make a community with fishing lakes and boat rental" was the original idea. It probably would have
worked longer than the first day with a bit of foresight. Opening day at the boat rental and bait shop came, the stocked
lake just waiting for hordes of sportsmen ready to catch their fill. One of the first came, rented a boat in cash, set
out to catch his fill and ... did anyone remember to write waivers? He tipped his boat, nearly drowned and, while still gasping
for breath threatened to sue. The whole operation was canned that day, closed down and never reopened. No Trespassing
signs were erected and all of the beautiful lakes were considered too dangerous. Maybe it's the altitude. Oh,
but they are for sale now. For a mere couple million bucks you can own Witts like, 55 acres of beauty, however you don't
own the water. Small detail until you realize that it's June by the time the snow melts up here and by the end
of July the local farmers start draining the water to use on their crops. About August 15 the lakes look like a mud hole-
given up all the moisutre for the local crop of sheep. They are still taking buyer bids, don't delay. Trails There are some trails in
Timber Lakes, how ever I would have to kill you if I told you where they are. I think all of the fourwheeler/AVT trails
are poaching private land but I don't actually know. I won't say anything about the hiking and snowshoe trails and I
won't even mention the night fishing from stocked lakes that never legally get fished. Nope, no info on that here, sorry.
There are 30 to 40 miles of winding dirt roads and barely roads to ride on in Timber Lakes, so ATVs are welcomed so long as
you are sporting the passes required. You would think an area this cool would be wound through with trails, but sadly no,
there really are not hiking trails to speak of. Same goes for snowshoeing, boating, fishing. The National Forest a few
miles up the road has all you want, but Timberlakes is missing it, and at times access to it. | What
to do in Timber Lakes So the perks of being your own gated
community... they are many when you look at the glass being half full, or maybe just having something in the glass
is a plus. Once you make it past the gate guard (wow! we finally have someone in guard station in 2009!)
and the gate ( yes it will close on your car if you don't get through in time, my snowmobile trailer bears the evidence) we
have a sovereign nation unto ourselves, kinda. Miles of dirt roads are open to fourwheelers and the like, snowmobiles buzz
all winter -and watch out for the party guests who never thought about snow tires or DUIs. With miles of plowed and unplowed
roads in the winter, exploring the thousands of acres can be a great time, get lost in your own private idaho! No, seriously,
get lost. Street signs are mostly there for looks but if you are trying to find an actual address don't go numeric....
there was NO logic given to disbursement of the lot numbers during sobriety. Cell phone coverage is poor on good days,
so friends don't bail you out too often when you are looking at the your fourth dead end .."I think we are going
in cirlces" is a frequent. Cabin #'s abruptly will change to any random new sequence, it may be based on square
roots or the last cabin # divided by pie. The roads loop, zig, zag, dead end or become impassable. P.S.; the tire
rippers you drive over as you are leaving are functional (and why do we need those?); I doubted until
I saw a car load of subcontractors pushing a buick with four flats. From
the door of mid to upper mountain cabins you can snowmobile via a private land easement into Uinta National Forest, AMAZING
snowmobiling. No trails really, but great open riding. The access requires a pass and is open Dec-ish to Mayish. If you play
out of bounds in the easement there are snowmobile 'cops' who issues tickets on occasion. Where do I apply? | 
Fireworks, hunting
and the "clubhouse" So what would YOU do
with 30000 sqfeet of mountain retreat? Timber Lakes USED to try to be very cool, they even put in a clubhouse for everyone,
large enough to host and sleep the population of Eastern Kentucky with room yet for your own family reunion (unless that
is one in the same). The club house, well over 30,000 sqft now, was a great amenity until the executive decision was
made to sell it off over a decade ago. By whom and for what is still under wraps. Where the money went and
who actually sold it and who had permission to sell it is, as of 2009, still being discussed in court. It's now labeled "Hamalot"
and the 8th wonder of the world can be seen, or just the minaret, may be seen from a good portion of Timberlakes. It's beauty
reminds me of a quartz crystal... the thing keeps growing at odd angles with off shoots and towers and decks and rooms and
houses andmore decks and- you get the idea. So since the area is
a grade 3 fire zone no outdoor fires are allowed, no fireworks, roasting-pig luau pits, etc. No hunting... I can't count
on one hand the sportsmen who have been found in the area ("Maybe I can get a better shot from on top of that guy's hot
tub...). Crazy... Wildlife abound, moose, deer, occasional bear, potguts, badgers, eagles, squirrles and even mountain
lion have been seen. Sledding- there are some CRAZY hills to sled
on, for all ages and adrenalin requirements. pick your poison. Part of Blue Spruce gets closed down and turned into
a sledding hill in the winter since it is too steep to take care of in the winter. Did I just say road care? Oh... the
stories... I would tell some of them but the nameless parties are still alive AND employed, or not. Tales of fist fights,
night-time sabatoge, purposeful plowing in the driveways of the vocal... ya. On another note-bring fourwheel drive any
time snow is mentioned on a weather report, anywhere. |
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