Tres Rios Lodge
The lodge commands a spectacular view from the lower slopes of Volcan Calbuco, the snowy 6500' volcano in the back yard. In front is Volcan Osorno at 8700' and Lake Llanquihue, the second largest in Chile. This remote upland setting offers utter peace and privacy with virtually no neighbors and only nature all around, yet only 10 minutes from Ensenada, 15 minutes from the Rio Petrohue, 20 minutes from Lago Todos Los Santos in Vicente Perez Rosales National Park, and 35 minutes to Puerto Varas. There is no better location to appreciate the natural beauty of this area of volcanoes, lakes and forests in the foothills of the Andes.
We can accommodate up to a family of 5 in the cabin and 3 guests in each of the 2 bedrooms in the lodge. We like to have only 6 anglers at a time. We know we can do a superb job only for a limited number of anglers, and that's the only way we want to do it.
It's cliche for a lodge to boast a gourmet chef and the best food in the Western Hemisphere, so we won't do that. If we operated a restaurant along the highway we would be inclined to hang a green neon sign, EAT, and surely we'd have a great following. However, to put you at ease we must mention that every guest at the lodge has compared Teresa'a creations favorably to their favorite restaurants back home in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Diego, London, Zurich, and all over (see References). At Tres Rios Lodge you will eat extremely well. Meals are delicious, healthy, bountiful, and always interesting and creative. Fresh fish and shellfish, beef, pork, lamb, and poultry, fresh homemade pastas and sauces, soufles, crepes, mousses, parfaits, real cherry, blueberry, ... blackberry pies with fresh fruit from our orchard, country eggs, ... fresh brewed coffee...nothing frozen & nuked. Special diets are not a problem.
For the non-anglers there is horseback riding and hiking literally out the back door. There is whitewater rafting on the upper Petrohue. There are two volcanoes to climb on foot or horseback for a spectacular view from above the treeline. There is an extensive handicraft fair in Puerto Montt and many boutiques in Puerto Varas for curiosity or shopping. One may simply enjoy touring the countryside or watch the scenes at a fishing port or on the farms surrounding Lago Llanquihue. The contrasts between traditional and modern Chile abound. Between the people, the contrasts, the quaint, and the panoramic, Chile is a photographer's delight. There is a scenic route to Bariloche, the Argentine ski resort town on the other side of the Andes reached by a Lakes Crossing starting at Petrohue, or one could cross Lake Todos Los Santos on a catamaran to Peulla and back for the day. And finally, if one wanted nothing more than to relax in a quiet, peaceful, beautiful place with a good book no better place can be found but the lodge itself.
Whether rafting, riding, hiking, biking, birding, windsurfing, canyoning, kayaking, or touring: we can make reservations and arrangements with outfitters for pick-up at the lodge for all these activities.
