Dock & Boathouse Builders in Cleverdale, NY
A narrow peninsula with water on both sides — which means two very different shorelines on properties a few hundred feet apart.
Does Lake George Docks work in Cleverdale?
Yes. Lake George Docks builds and repairs docks, boathouses, boat lifts, timber cribs and shoreline structures throughout Cleverdale (Town of Queensbury, Warren County) and across the full 32 miles of Lake George. We handle design, Lake George Park Commission permitting, APA and DEC coordination, town building permits and construction — including shorelines that can only be reached by water. We also run a home services division covering painting, doors and windows, kitchens, baths and additions for properties in the area. Call (518) 260-9878.
What we focus on here
- Designs that work within tight setbacks
- Protected-side and exposed-side structures
- Narrow-frontage dock configuration
- Boat lifts in shallow bay slips
Town of Queensbury, Warren County
Building on the Cleverdale shoreline
Cleverdale sits on a peninsula on the eastern side of the lake, and its defining feature for waterfront work is that it has shoreline facing in opposite directions.
The bay-facing side is protected, shallower and calmer — good conditions for conventional crib docks and for lifts. The lake-facing side takes the open water, with the fetch and wave exposure that comes with it. Two properties on the same street can need fundamentally different structures.
Frontages here also tend to be narrower than on the big west-shore parcels, which makes the 20-foot setback from each property line the binding constraint on most designs rather than the 700 square foot cap. On a 70-foot lot that leaves thirty feet of usable width, and every design decision follows from that number.
Services
What we do in Cleverdale
The full waterfront range, plus home services for properties above the bank.
Local questions
Working in Cleverdale
What changes from one part of this lake to another — and what does not.
Do the dock rules change from town to town on Lake George?
The Lake George Park Commission's rules apply lake-wide — 700 square feet including the walkway, 8-foot pier width, 40-foot overall width, extension limits, 16-foot height and 20-foot setbacks, with dock counts scaling by frontage. What changes locally is the town building permit and zoning, and several lakeside towns apply shoreline provisions stricter than the state baseline. Adirondack Park Agency jurisdiction applies across the whole basin.
Do you work on shorelines with no road access?
Yes. A meaningful share of Lake George shoreline is reachable only by water, and we run barge access specifically for it. Materials, equipment and crew go in by boat. It is a normal part of how we work rather than a special arrangement.
Does my location on the lake change what I should build?
Considerably. Exposure and fetch determine the wave loading a structure sees; bottom composition determines whether cribs or piles are appropriate; depth close to shore determines how much structure you need to reach usable water; and distance from the south basin affects the sensible trade-off between up-front cost and maintenance cycle. A design that is right in Harris Bay can be wrong in Hague.
How quickly can you get to my property?
We work the full lake and schedule geographically where we can. For emergencies we respond year-round — call (518) 260-9878. For planned work, north-end and water-access properties benefit from being scheduled into a broader trip, which is another reason to start the conversation early.
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Other communities we serve
Lake George, New York
Waterfront work in Cleverdale?
Tell us the property and what you are looking at. We will tell you what your shoreline will support, what the rules allow, and when we could realistically do it.