What do you do there ? Everything is closed or closes early, even this weekend Dog Days was a ghost town.

ICDEDPPL - Welcome to the neighborhood. I am just down HH on Eagle. Plenty of places open all year close by. Lil Rizzo's, HS Bend Bar and Grill, The Office, Tavern on the Bend, Toad every place on the strip.

Before selling my boat I still boated. I've boated every month of the year down there. You'll get sunny days in the 60's/70's with little to no wind that are awesome boating days. You'll get a bit of chill off the colder water but still doable.

I also transition away from most of the on-water spots and hit more locals spots and the strip.

LOTO on average is about 10 degrees warmer on any given day in the winter than it is in Central IL. They also miss a lot of those clippers that come down from Canada. They are just far enough West that most of them that get us miss them.

This was February 2nd a few years back on the strip at Lucy's. I think the high that day tickled 70. Perfectly comfortable outside in what I had on. Much crappier weather back home.

Edit, got link to work. Congrats! Know right where you are. Great view!

Redhead and Toad are great places to boat to all year round on those random 65+ degree days we get. I think hillbilly yacht club is open all year round also but could be wrong?

This was in December of '18. I was at the lake looking at used lifts (ended up buying new). Eating lunch at Readhead and this Cobalt rolls in with about 10 or more peeps on it for a bachelor party. About 34 degrees when they rolled up!

That's me in the blue hoodie , wasn't a bachelor party but if I remember correctly my buddy had just picked that boat up that day. Had the new Volvo motors that you winterized with a plunger in a couple minutes. Fun day!

I remember a lot of peeps getting off the boat. Or maybe I'm confusing it with another group that rolled in and couldn't remember if it was gals or guys but they were there at the lake to party. Too funny that is you!

This weekend was cold , not many people out and some places weren`t open ... I still had fun thou . Don`t mind boating in the cold.
Dog Days , we were the only people there and it`s only beginning of October, temps back home were about the same.. so if it`s generally 10* warmer that`s good news.
Just to get out of town during those long dark days of winter would be nice to clear my head.

If the slip at the condo is 16 wide you want to lease the other side...............a little help for those HOA's