Want a peaceful break from life’s bustling routine? Looking for a quiet place to hold a business retreat?

Try spending a weekend enjoying some pastoral stillness, renting a beautiful log cabin or cottage at Camp Arrowhead in Angola.

Those seeking a getaway should especially enjoy the camp’s 1927 custom-built white cedar log cabin, with a big, gray stone fireplace, full kitchen, two bedrooms downstairs, one large bedroom in the loft and all the modern conveniences of oil heat and full bath included.

The camp also offers its spacious manor house and two heated, cedar-shingled cottages with full kitchens and baths, set amid tall pines and overlooking the Rehoboth Bay on Camp Arrowhead’s 167.5 acres of pristine land at the end of Camp Arrowhead Road.

“We’re just minutes from Route 1, and yet it seems like it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” said Rick Hollingsworth, who with his wife, Dina, and three sons are the camp caretakers.

“During summer, we have 1,000 kids here camping, but during the rest of the year, it’s a beautiful and quiet retreat.”

Because the camp is so special to the Hollingsworths and because they like the cabin and cottages so much, the family decided to make them available for off-season rentals.

“The cabin has a lot of character,” said Hollingsworth.

“We figured there was no sense in letting something this nice go unused. That’s why we decided to offer the rentals.”

Hollingsworth explained that the log cabin is built entirely of white cedar logs from Medford Lakes in Burlington County, N.J., and constructed by builders from Medford Lakes.

The Episcopal Diocese of Delaware is marking its 50th anniversary of ownership of the Christian camp, which has served generations of young campers. The cedar log cabin was home to Terry and Bettylou Carmine for 45 years.
The couple served as camp caretakers and raised their three sons there.

The Carmine family legacy lives on at the camp’s Carmine Environmental Center overlooking Rehoboth Bay.

Wildlife abounds at the Camp Arrowhead property, and several walking trails offer visitors a chance to commune with nature and see some deer, owls or waterfowl up close.

For information on a cabin or cottage rental, call Dina Hollingsworth at 945-9751.