cottage country

noun

1. any lakeside region where many country cottages are located

Example Sentences

“If this winter is anything like this summer was,” Dr. Sharma said, “a lot of people spent time in cottage country in Ontario because we just can’t go anywhere.”

From New York Times

Michigan’s “cottage country” exists wherever there are lakes, and much of it is here, in places with ready access to Lake Huron.

From Washington Post

“It’s really cottage country,” he said on Sunday, adding that the community was home to about 50 to 60 residents and as many as 200 during the summer.

From New York Times

He described Portapique as “cottage country,” with about 100 year-round residents and 250 in the summer.

From Washington Times

That is why Duguid is playing to his strength, emphasizing his background in ecology — he has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in environmental science — and hoping that voters remember that party strategists in Ottawa made special efforts to elevate his profile on those issues, assuring that he was photographed at government announcements to clean up Lake Manitoba and Lake Winnipeg — two large lakes where Winnipeggers of even modest incomes repair to cottage country on the weekends and during summer holidays.

From Los Angeles Times