ABOUT US

Cliff and Chris Wheeler

Property Owners

Hello! My name is Chris and my husband Cliff and I are the Baker Pond Vacation Cabins property owners. This beautiful log home came about when Cliff and I wanted to move back to Bend in our 40s. He dreamed of building his own log cabin, and eventually this dream developed into a 20-year business of building and selling log cabins around the Pacific Northwest. However, now that we are retired, we want to share our wonderful home and pond with others. 

Although Google refers to it as “Baker Lake”, at no more than 6 feet deep, this little body of water is really more of a pond than a lake. The pond started its life as the stock pond for the Baker family who had a ranch on the south end of Bend. My mom, who was born in 1920, used to come out to the pond as a teenager to ice skate during the winter months. Later, in the 1960s or 70s, a developer came into the area and created the Deschutes River Woods neighborhood, known as DRW to locals, and enlarged the Baker family’s stock pond to the size it is today. Up until sometime in the 90s (we think), local kids would still come use the pond to fish, swim, and ice skate. 

Baker Pond has been a centerpiece of the community for decades and was even one of the main highlights the DRW developer featured to sell the neighborhood from the 1960s - 1990s. A couple eventually purchased the pond and lived in the nearby A-Frame cabin - which still stands on the property - until 1994 when they sold it to us. We then built the log home, known as The Lodge, and have been enjoying pond-life ever since.

We hope you’ll come stay with us to enjoy the charm of Baker Pond and make some memories with your loved ones!