Directions come by email
Side O’ Lake is 45 homes on Bass Lake in West Michigan, about 17 minutes from Greenville and about 45 to 50 minutes north of Grand Rapids. There’s no street address online. Send a note, and the reply tells you how to find it.
Send a note back.
Leave a first name, an email and a phone number. The manager writes back with the homes for sale and how to find the place.
Rather use your own email?
A note gets you directions and the current list of homes for sale. No application, no fee, no pressure.
What to put in your note
A line or two is plenty. These help the reply answer you in one go.
- When you’d like to come and look
- Whether you’re after one of the homes for sale, or bringing a home
- On the water, or fine a row back
- Questions you want answered first: lot rent and what it covers, the season’s dates
Why there’s no address
It’s a small place where people come for a quiet summer, and it’s been that way since 1950. Keeping the address off the internet keeps it that way.
It also means you hear from a person first. You get directions, a time to visit and the current homes for sale in one reply, instead of driving up to find nobody around.
Rather write from your own inbox? Email hello@sideolakemhc.com.
Bass Lake country, north of Grand Rapids
Close enough for a Friday-night drive up. Groceries and errands are in Greenville, and the Fred Meijer White Pine Trail has trailheads in nearby Cedar Springs and Sand Lake.
Drive times are approximate, by road (OSRM public road router, drive times computed 2026-09-28).
- From Greenville
- 17 min
- From Grand Rapids
- 45 to 50 min
While you wait for the reply: the lake and its fish, how buying here works, and what a summer here costs.