Planning a family vacation in Southern California usually means theme parks, crowded beaches, or a resort that drains the budget before you've unpacked. There's a different kind of family trip available — one that involves mountains, a real lake, a game room, and a cabin where the kids run out the front door in the morning and don't want to come back inside.
Maple & Pine is a three-bedroom, 2.5-bath cabin in Crestline, CA, about 75 minutes from Los Angeles, designed to be the family cabin rental in Southern California that families actually revisit.
- Bedrooms
- 3 bedrooms · king master suite · queen room · bunk room sleeping 4
- Sleeps
- Up to 8 guests
- Bathrooms
- 2.5 bathrooms
- Lake Gregory
- 5-minute walk · inflatable water park · swimming · kayaking
- Game room
- Pac-Man arcade · pool table · ping pong · air hockey (top floor)
- Pets
- 2 dogs welcome · no breed or weight limits
- Skiing
- Snow Valley 20 min · beginner-friendly terrain
- Rating
- 4.78★ Airbnb Guest Favorite · 72 reviews · 10/10 on VRBO
Built for how families actually travel
The best family rentals solve real problems. Here's how Maple & Pine handles the usual ones:
Sleeping arrangements that actually work
Three proper bedrooms sleeping up to 8 guests. The king master suite for adults. A queen room for grandparents, older kids, or whoever draws the long straw. And a dedicated bunk room sleeping 4 — built for kids, and actually comfortable. Nobody is on an air mattress, nobody is sharing a fold-out couch.
Keeping kids busy
The top-floor game room has a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, pool table, ping pong, and air hockey. On rainy or slow days, this becomes the most popular room in the house. On sunny ones, Lake Gregory is five minutes away — and the lake has Southern California's largest inflatable water park, with waterslides and floating obstacle courses that exhaust kids in the best way.
Cooking actual meals
The full chef's kitchen means you can cook breakfasts and dinners without fighting over a two-burner camp stove. The gas BBQ on the deck handles weekend grilling. Not every meal needs to be a restaurant trip — which saves money and often makes for the best family moments anyway.
The dog comes too
Maple & Pine is pet-friendly. Two dogs are welcome with no breed or weight restrictions. Lake Gregory has a fenced off-leash dog park a five-minute walk away, and the flat two-mile lakeside path welcomes leashed dogs the whole way around.
Self check-in: No coordinating with a host or rushing to arrive by a specific time. Check in on your schedule — whenever the car is packed and you're ready to go.
Five minutes from Lake Gregory
Lake Gregory is where Crestline families spend their days, and it's legitimately one of Southern California's best family-friendly lakes. The regional park has swimming with lifeguards in summer, kayak and paddleboard rentals, the inflatable water park, fishing, lakeside picnic areas, and ice skating in winter when temperatures drop. A full day at the lake typically runs $15–25 per person — far less than a theme park, with more actual outdoor time.
Seasonal activities for families
What 72+ families have said
Maple & Pine is an Airbnb Guest Favorite — a badge given to cabins that consistently earn top ratings, reviews, and reliability scores. It holds a 4.78-star rating across 72 Airbnb reviews and a 10/10 "Exceptional" score on VRBO. Families come back season after season, which says more than any description can.
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