Houseboat Vacation Lakes

Houseboating can be a very different experience from lake to lake. But whether you're gliding through the sinuous sandstone canyons of Lake Powell, marvelling at the diversity of Lake Mohave, or basking in the warm desert sun on Lake Mead, you'll always find that the common theme of all houseboat vacations is fun. Read More...

Renting a houseboat is like staying in a deluxe hotel suite...floating on the water! Each houseboat comes equipped with a full kitchen, bathroom, living room and various sleeping areas. Bring your own food to prepare in the kitchen, and the meat of your choice to grill on the BBQ. Climb the stairs to the upper deck, where you can glide down the swim slide into the water. The upper deck also offers open space to soak up some rays or simply hang out in the presence of good friends and family.

Pull the houseboat up onto the beach and explore the scenery at the lake of your choice. Build a sand castle or fish right from the shore! Don't worry about filling up the houseboat with fuel at the beginning of your voyage, as it comes completely full. Like a rental car, you will simply top it off at the end of your trip. Don't have experience driving a boat? No need to fear, as the marina staff will instruct you on how to properly navigate the houseboat. Pack your bags, designate your 'Houseboat Captain,' and embark on the journey of a lifetime!

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Bull Shoals Lake

  • Arkansas, Missouri
  • 1 marina
The Bull Shoals Dam is one of the largest dams of its kind in the United States and Bull Shoals is one of the more impressively massive lakes in Arkansas. The Ozark Mountains are the backdrop to these clear waters and thick forests shade the lake. Click to learn more
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Dale Hollow Lake

  • Tennessee
  • 1 marina
Dale Hollow Lake is most famous as the world's best smallmouth bass lake. The largest smallmouth bass ever taken was taken here and it's quite the incredible lake for largemouth and spotted bass, too, as well as walleye, gar and trout among others. Click to learn more
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Erie Canal

  • New York
  • 1 marina
The Erie Canal system is 365 miles long, and spans from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie. Finished in 1825, the Erie Canal first connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, making transportation of both goods and people much more efficient and economical. These days, May through November is when the canals truly come alive, abounding with recreational watercraft and houseboat vacationers. Click to learn more
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Lake Billy Chinook

  • Oregon
  • 2 marinas
Lake Billy Chinook is a canyon lake in Oregon, its clear waters flowing between the deep carved banks of the Crooked, Deschutes, and Metolius Rivers. The dam has made this convergence a reservoir instead of a three-in-one river, but the lake is unusually narrow. Lake Billy Chinook, of course, is not so narrow that this hampers houseboating at all. In fact, it makes it more interesting. Boating between those intense cliffs in the bright summer or ... Click to learn more
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Lake Cumberland

  • Kentucky
  • 3 marinas
Whether you are interested in relaxing on the top deck of your houseboat, water skiing, or cruising the lake on a powerboat, Lake Cumberland is the perfect destination for you. Thousands of private coves, nestled amongst beautiful lush foliage, make Lake Cumberland one of the country's top houseboating destinations. If you need help planning a Lake Cumberland houseboat vacation, our houseboat experts will be more than happy to answer your ... Click to learn more
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Lake Don Pedro

  • California
  • 1 marina
Located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, on the way to Yosemite, is Lake Don Pedro, east of Modesto and approximately 2 hours southeast of Sacramento. Because of its large size and over 160 miles of shoreline, Lake Don Pedro is rated as one of California's best recreational lakes with hundreds of hidden coves and inlets to boat, fish, swim and camp. Click to learn more
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Lake Mead

  • Nevada, Arizona
  • 1 marina
Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States. It is located on the Colorado River about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, between the states of Nevada and Arizona. Formed by water impounded by Hoover Dam, it extends 110 miles behind the dam, holding approximately 28.5 million acre feet of water. Click to learn more
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Lake Mohave

  • Nevada, Arizona
  • 1 marina
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which includes Lake Mohave, offers a wealth of things to do and places to go year-round. Its expansive location caters to boaters, swimmers, sunbathers, and fishermen. Three of America's four desert ecosystems — the Mohave, the Great Basin, and the Sonoran deserts — meet in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. As a result, this seemingly barren area contains a surprising variety of plants and animals, some of ... Click to learn more
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Lake of the Woods

  • Canada
  • 1 marina
Lake of the Woods, in Ontario Canada, is a giant, dwarfing most lakes in both the United States and Canada. It is vast, purely natural, and very old, a remnant of prehistoric Lake Agissiz, a lake that once spanned the center of North America. Today, at a fraction of that original size, it still spreads over 1,679 square miles and its shoreline is 25,000 miles long - over twice as long if you count the shorelines of the 14,552 islands. Click to learn more
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Lake Powell

  • Utah, Arizona
  • 3 marinas
For hundreds of thousands of years the Colorado River roared through Glen Canyon carving a tremendous canyon through the sandstone. In 1963 the Glen Canyon dam was completed and impounded the Colorado, turning the wild beauty of Glen Canyon into popular Lake Powell -- a vast body of deep blue water contained within orange-red cliff walls. Click to learn more
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Lake Roosevelt

  • Washington
  • 2 marinas
In 1941, the creation of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River led to another creation: that of Lake Roosevelt and its miles of shoreline and more miles of open water. Lake Roosevelt, located in the state of Washington, is a long, narrow lake, stretching 150 miles toward Canada, but rarely wider than a mile. In a sense, navigating between its shores resembles navigating a vast, leisurely river. Click to learn more
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Rainy Lake

  • Minnesota
  • 1 marina
Rainy Lake is massive, straddling the borders of Ontario, Canada and Minnesota. Its southeastern end is rimmed by Voyageurs National Park, famous for its extensive water networks. Rainy Lake itself is less of a network and more of an expanse, an endless clear stretch of pure, remote water. The rough, gorgeous shoreline, green and wild, is added to by island after island, both large and small. Exploring every mile of this rich coast would take ... Click to learn more
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Shasta Lake

  • California
  • 3 marinas
Shasta Lake (aka Lake Shasta) is one of the most popular house boating and recreation centers in the western United States. Visitors from all over enjoy the best combination of scenery, weather and recreational opportunities that mother nature has to offer. Click to learn more
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Smith Mountain Lake

  • Virginia
  • 1 marina
Smith Mountain Lake spreads clear-watered and large in a valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With 32 square miles of water surface and over 500 miles of shoreline, this is a lake of many inlets, shaded with thick Virginia foliage. Part of this foliage shades a fine beach that stretches along Smith Mountain Lake State Park. Click to learn more
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St Johns River

  • Florida
  • 1 marina
St. John's River is unique among rivers, and not just Florida rivers. It's one of the very few major rivers to flow north in the world. And at three hundred miles long and often two miles across, St. John's River is certainly a major river. Click to learn more
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Voyageurs National Park

  • Minnesota
  • 2 marinas
Your extraordinary houseboat adventure is truly a fantastic way to explore the United States' largest waterways park: Voyageurs National Park. This park, created by Congress in 1971, encompasses land and water areas which have no roads and was initially designated for canoeists. Come enjoy its unspoiled beauty. Click to learn more