Summary:
This couldn’t get much better! Modern, well-appointed house with views, in a great location! What more could you ask for? This two-story lake house was built to impress, with its ultra-clean, “impress the chef” kitchen, living room, family room, 3 comfy bedrooms, and two balconies with views, your much-deserved lake vacation is certain to create lifelong memories! Grab your wakeboards, skis, tubes, or fishing poles and head off to the deep blue of the fabulously lustrous Lake Travis.
The Space:
This luxurious and modern lake home boasts all the resort-style amenities that families, large groups, and lake-going weekend warriors are looking for! Being located in Point Venture, a resort-style community on Lake Travis, you’ll have exclusive access to the beach, marina (with boat dock, ramp, and rentals), 9-hole golf course and driving range, and tennis courts, pickleball court, parks, and gym. All of these, plus Lake Travis, is right at your fingertips! Don’t wait, go hit the lake!
Guest Access:
✅ This property has special local compliance requirements which include a signed rental agreement, ID verification, and a security hold of $1000 (which is not a traditional security deposit, just a pending transaction). As an optional alternative to the security hold, you may opt in to purchase a non-refundable damage waiver provided by a third-party insurance company. The optional damage waiver is $53 for stays up to 10 nights, with an additional $1.5 per day for stays longer than 10 nights. Damage waiver purchases are optional.
To make this process easy for you, we use a secure and very simple, app-free platform. It is not an app, and you do not have to sign up for an account - it’s a safe and secure website. It also gives you a guest portal with all the info about the home and all of my favorite local spots.
The Neighborhood:
Life in Point Venture is truly a holiday every day! New homes are going up throughout the village, more young families are moving in, bringing vibrancy to the community. Point Venture definitely looks prosperous. While the lake level is near historic lows, Point Venture boaters can still get to their boats in the marina, and the “island” beach at the park rivals some Florida shores. Approximately 830 people live here, though not all permanently. There are still many undeveloped, wooded lots scattered about, but the community now looks more like, well, a community. Neighbors still help each other, volunteers pick up litter and help build community structures such as the new fire station. Golf carts are the preferred means of transportation around the village, though new safety regulations became necessary as people became a tad reckless with the seemingly innocuous vehicles. Golf reigns as the most popular activity with boating, tennis, and bridge following closely. Point Venture attracts reclusive residents who want to enjoy the silence of north shore living and others who cherish the camaraderie of like spirits who make this lovely place their home. Everyone looks forward to the July 4th parade and celebration, delights in the sparkling Christmas lights in the village, and children run to the park on Easter weekend to hunt eggs and see the Easter Bunny. On any given weekend and holiday you’ll find families in the park, under the gazebo, and at the scattered picnic tables making memories. Grandparents make a ritual of driving their grandchildren in the golf cart to the fantastic playscape at the park. Many children believe the wooded trails threading the park take them through a magical forest where they can discover treasures. But for many of the newer residents who found Point Venture serendipitously, perhaps the best way to understand the attraction of this point in the lake is to engage in conversation with some of the earliest property owners who still live here. When you find one, listen. You can still hear the combo playing, the cocktail glasses clinking in the lounge, see the spray from the skiers pulled by vintage Chris Craft and Century boats, marvel at the dark skies filled with stars, feel the summer breezes rustle through the cedars. Little did Canfield and Cummings know when they bought these 989.07 acres in 1969, but they made magic.
The Story of Point Venture...
With so much natural beauty and abundant recreational opportunities in Point Venture, it’s possible to miss the hints of history that peek from rocky cliffs and the surface near the lakeshore. Some of us discover remnants of previous inhabitants while building our houses when excavation unearths Indian arrowheads and fossilized sea creatures. Others find hand-built rock walls when the lake recedes, suggesting someone ranched the land that is now the bottom of Lake Travis. Street signs on the way to our village post unusual names and geographical references. Yet, in our eagerness to relish all that is Point Venture, rarely do we think about who lived on our peninsula before it was called Point Venture, or why they settled there. We like to think we were the first to discover our little bit of paradise. Some, however, have wondered, and as a result, several books have been published on the history of the North Shore. This project grew out of an interest by one fairly recent Point Venture resident, who so loved the area that he became curious as to why and how it came to attract residents from across the nation, and even from foreign countries. Roy Ables and his wife, Pat, moved to Point Venture from Arlington, Texas, in 2005. A genealogist and local history buff, Roy had already written the history of the small Texas town where he grew up. Shortly after settling in Point Venture, he began researching the early development of this area. I joined him in his research, and with the invaluable assistance of and interviews with local historians and many of the area’s first residents, we soon collected enough information to compile this modest collection on the history of Point Venture. Because my interest was piqued early by the discovery of an arrowhead on our property and by the numerous sea fossils surrounding our house, I wanted to learn more about the geological features of this area and about the Indians and early pioneers on the north side of the Colorado River. We had much available to read on those subjects because previous north shore historians had researched and written extensively on those topics. Consequently, we decided to guide you to those references and instead concentrate our efforts on the early development of our community, touching only lightly on life before Lake Travis came to be. A fascinating work on the geological phenomena of our area is in Lago Vista, Its Story and Its People, co-edited by Bruce Vernier and JoAnn Siefken, with a terrific forward by Phil Mundt. The fairly recent publication, The North Shore of Lake Travis, is expertly written and assembled by the North Shore Heritage and Cultural Society. Another book filled with anecdotes is Nameless, Its History and Its People by Genny Kercheville. All of these publications can be found in the Lago Vista Public Library. But, here are some hints of what you’ll find in these books: Dinosaur tracks in and around Cow Creek; Discovery of an ancient Indian burial site in Pace Bend; Evidence that Tonkawa, Lipan, Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa hunted and fought along the Colorado River; Stories of the first North Shore settlers who came in 1831 when Stephen F. Austin issued grants to 800 families to form the “Upper Colony”; First settlers included Noah Smithwick, John Henry Lohmann, Samuel, and Ed Pearson, Caleb and Thomas Sylvester and James Carlton — names we see on those street signs; Photos of meteorites discovered on the 22,000-acre Sunset Ranch, and much, much, more.
Getting Around:
Walking, Biking, Ride Share, Car
Interaction with Guests:
We have a 24/7 team dedicated to our rentals in Lago Vista and our local property manager is available to be at the property.
