Trillium, one of Russell Lands’ more mature Lake Martin developments, is located just west of Kowaliga Marina.  Along with Willow Point and The Ridge, Trillium has some of the more high end homes on Lake Martin.

If you would like to see waterfront homes and lots for sale right now in Trillium, CLICK HERE to go to my Trillium Neighborhood page. I have a report that shows every waterfront home and lot for sale – by all agents, all brokerages, on Lake Martin. It pulls from the Lake Martin MLS so it will be current no matter when you visit the page.

Trillium was one of Russell Lands’ first neighborhoods that were completed in different phases.  The first homes were built there around 1989.  One element that was new to Lake Martin at the time was Russell Lands’ use of causeway construction.

Years of erosion on Lake Martin had made islands out of former peninsula.  Russell Lands poured a lot of money in the construction of causeways to bring paved roads and utilities, thereby rescuing millions of dollars of real estate.  I can remember one such “island” on the first phase.  It was divided into four huge lots and priced at $250,000 each.  It was laughingly dubbed “million dollar island” by hordes of us skeptical locals.  We pondered “what fool would pay that much for one lot?” Eighteen years later, that amount will barely buy you any sort of waterfront lot, much less a showcase one like those on the points at Trillium.  Turns out that we were the fools for not realizing the demand that would spur a long bull run for Lake Martin property.  Lots like those would now cost you 10 times that amount if you could buy them at all.

By my unofficial count, there are 213 waterfront lots in all of Trillium.  As of this writing, there are 8 homes and 4 lots for sale in Trillium in the Lake Martin MLS.  If you would like any information on them, give me a call or email me.

Amenities:

Trillium does not have a clubhouse.  It does have a guardhouse protecting the lone entry, but I have never seen a guard there.  I suppose they could put someone there in the future if they wanted.

Because Trillium doesn’t have a clubhouse, it does not have any related things like a pool or workout center or anything.  They do have some walking trails that are cut through the non-waterfront woods.

Lot types:

Waterfront lots in Trillium are flat.  Just as many of the lots in The Ridge (link) are sloped, Trillium’s overall topography almost guarantees that each one of its lots are flat.

Generally, the lots are also big (for Lake Martin) and deep, sitting far back from the roadways.  Trillium’s lots are also well covered with tall, mature pines.

There are no interior lots or homes.  All homes in Trillium are waterfront.  Who knows, maybe one day Russell Lands will sell off the interior land.  Right now, they have retained fairly large sections of woods in between the phases to give Trillium a beautiful, woodsy, private feel.

Factoids:

Back in the heyday of “Russell cabins” Mrs. Edith Russell used to have a couple of cabins at the end of Pine Point.  Apparently she was a fan of the trillium, a pretty, symbolic wildflower native to this part of Alabama.  Hence the name of the subdivision and its types the names of many of its streets: Wake Robin, Nodding, Grandiflorium, Underwood, Catesby, and Narrowleaf.