Candlewood Lake waterfront homes range from $450,000 to over 2 million.

Candlewood Lake was once the country's largest manmade body of water, when it was completed in 1928, and it was names after the candlewood trees that grow around it.

The 5,420 acres of water surface, 60 miles of shoreline, which serves as a recreational facility for thousands of residents in the five municipalities that border Canmdlewood Lake:Danbury, New Fairfield, Sherman, New Milford and Brookfield, Connecticut.