The great thing about Stout's Island is it feels both remote and private and also like a summer camp where you're suddenly friends with someone you met two minutes ago.

Lumber baron Frank Stout built the island's original lodge in 1903 at a cost of $1.5 million as a private retreat for his family.

After Stout's widow died in 1948, the island and 18,000 acres of land on the shoreline were sold to a succession of speculators, Bing Crosby briefly among them.

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The afternoon sun was on its way down when we pulled off County Road V in Mikana, parked in the gravel lot, and carried our luggage to the dock. We opened the bottle of apple wine we had picked up ...