A small double room with a lake view starts at $655 a night in low season, including half board.

Lake View also is home to a dirt race track.

All of its 980 rooms have at least a partial lake view.

Doubles with lake view are $248 to $296, including breakfast.

Those which do not have a lake view overlook local side streets.

Similar homes two blocks away, without lake views, go for less than half that.

The only one of the five that had never been a town is Lake View.

There are cheaper hotel rooms in the main building: about $30 for lake view, $15 to $20 on the street.

Well, there are the lake views and the scent of the pines.

Off the master bedroom is a terrace, also with lake views.