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scott: resorts of thenorthwoods is made possible bythe minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund,from money by the vote of the people. minnesota resorts are unique.each offers its own specialqualities, atmosphere,
core power yoga eden prairie, and even culture. there'salways been a tie for them to be here, if they come to theresort. either uncle charlie owned a cabin on the lake oraunt mabel lived in pequot. but there always seems to besome kind of family tie
to the area that draws the people to begin with.â« scott:each resort is as distinct from the next asthe friendly, fun-loving people who own and operatethemâ» we look at this whole land, not onlyour beautiful piece of property here, assacred. â« scott: resorting, as aminnesota industry has evolved from earlyfire pit fishing camps to rustic cabinsof the mid-twentieth
century, to a vast range ofamenities and activities available today.some luxurious, the others, most basicâ» i tellmy staff, "your only job is to see if people are enjoyingthemselves and to ask them 'how are thingsgoing?' during their visit."â« scott: forgenerations of americans, a summer vacationspent on the shores of a cool northern minnesota lakehas been an eagerly
awaited respite from the rigorsof their livelihoodâ» we have i think...believe fivegenerations that have beencoming here for years and years andthey come from all over the country. they meet oneanother here at the same time. â« scott: the resort industry began before the invention ofair conditioning. as a way for people of theplains to leave their growingcrops during the hottest weeks andrecoup in a cool
lake breeze through pinesâ» ourcabins were considered ultra-modern;today they would be un-rentablebecause most of them did not haverunning water and ah, very primitive, very primitive.â« scott: theindustry has experienced both ups and downs, growth anddecline, as economic factors and people'srecreational whims have changed over the decadesâ» forties andfifties is really
the big heyday of resorts in ah, the upper midwest up here. so,that's a typical thing for resorts in minnesota. wedon't really know exactly how many resorts were aroundduring that day and age. i've been doing a little bit ofresearch on that. we do know that there were about2,500 resorts in the state of minnesota around 1970 and we know in this day, 2015, thereare just a little over 800 now, in thestate of minnesota.
â« scott: one thing remains thesame, resorts continue to provide visitorsthe best minnesota has to offer. come along with lakeland public television, as we tour a smallsampling but vast variety of resorts ofthe northwoods. we begin our tour at pimusheresort located deep in the wildernesseast of bemidji, minnesota. pimushe, a classic, secludedresort with
cabins beautifully maintainedalong an isolated lake is owned and operated by ed andjoann fussy. i'm ed fussy, and we're atpimushe resort near bemidji, minnesota and got into the resort business in1994. i was a billing contractorprior to that and ah, decided to do somethingdifferent and get ah...not have as many employeesâ« chucklesâ» and still
enjoy dealing with people andenjoy the outdoors. well the resort was started in 1946 right after the war andthe original people that started it was aland lori arndt. they ran it for, i want to say,about 30 years. and then they sold it to ah,nick and sally neckolaishen and they had itthree years. the next owners were tom and bonnie schwartzlander who hadit for
15 years and we bought thisresort in 1994. so we're the fourthowners. we'll start with our beach areawhich is a big draw for families and even ifsome of them don't have a family, they still likeit. every year we try to add a new water toy. this year, our new addition isthe big free-fall aqua-glide slide. it's been a big hit. itdefinitely has
looks bigger once you get outthere so our guests say. i don't know because i don't swim and ihaven't been on it yet so â« water splashesâ» well we accumulated them overyears and every year add something and assome of them wear out some go away but we've added toit and made it fun for the kids. in today'selectronic world you gotta have something otherthat they can come and enjoy other than sit on theirelectronics so.
â« laughing, water splashingâ» andthis year we also added some bicycles for ourguests to use. which has been a big hit withsome of them and built a carpet ball thisspring that's been a real big hit aswell as we also have ladder golf and the bean bagtoss. we also have the volleyball,basketball court for those that want to be realambitious on vacation. and here we have our
cabin 4, which is one of ourbigger units. it will sleep up to 21 people.it's a four bedroom cabin and thatcabin we built around, i think it was2000. ed did up the plans, he sawedall the lumber for the cabins, made allthe furniture and then i have made all thequilts for the beds. our cabins are a bigattraction to the people. we basically builtthem all from scratch,
sawed the logs, milled thelumber, made the furniture, joann made all thequilts and stuff for the bedding, so people reallyappreciate that, the unique portion of all the cabins, howunique they are. our dock system, ed kind ofdesigned those. that took a little trialand error to get them just what he wanted. they're afloating system that we pull into the bay each fall andthen pull out again in the spring. two cabins share onedock so there's like
four spaces on each side so wealways have ample dock space for boats andstuff for the guests if they bring their own or ifthey want to rent one of our deluxe boats or one of ourthree pontoons that we have. our resort is a littlemore set off the beaten path. one of thethings we hear from people how peaceful it is here.it's a very undeveloped lake. we have about 3,000 feet oflakeshore.
the bulk of that lakeshorewe've kept kind of in the natural state. a fewyears ago we purchased some wild flowerseeds from the dnr that we put along this part.now we've kinda thinned them out a little bitand i threw in some perennials this year because it had gottenso tall that our guests couldn't see over them.but we still basically kept it allnatural with a little splash of someperennial flowers
in there which attractbutterflies is what we'retrying to do. we planted some milk weed seedsthis spring with the hopes of kind ofincreasing the milk weed along the lakeshore. but yet you know, even thoughwe have an area for our beach we stillfeel it's important to keep the natural look of thelakeshore. people like the lawn groomedbut they like to be able to see
the beauty of the naturalflowers that the environment provides.the only part that we have basicallymessed with is our beach area otherwise therest of it is all natural with the exception of myperennials but...â« laughsâ» at each one of our cabins we have ahummingbird feeder that i try to keep filleddepending upon the season or the time. sometimes thebirds are eating us out
of house and home almost butthe guests really like that cause for some they don'tget that opportunity to see um, hummingbird feeders. each cabin comes with its own fire pit which gets used quite a bit throughout thesummer this cabin we purchased after webought the resort. the owner of thisone
we had always told him when hegot ready to sell that we'd be interested in buying itsince our yards connected. um, and this one used to be a lake homeduring the summer months and then theywent to missouri during the winter. this one's athree bedroom. it's nice and private for those thatstill want to be on the resort but want to havesome privacy. if they don't mind the littlebit of a hill, most of
them like, like i said theprivacy of it all. well we're kinda off the beatenpath. we're 20 minutes frombemidji which makes everyone feel likethey're away from all the busy rat raceand life and yet they're only 20minutes from all the amenities that we'respoiled with in bemidji. being a college townhas everything so the antiquing and gift shops and all of that stuff so they'renot far away from it for those
that don't want to leave it andthe ones that want to stay isolated and outta touch,they can do that. â« scott: from the naturalwilderness of pimushe we continue our resort toursouth to the brainerd lakes area at cragun's resort.owned and operated by dutch and irmacragun, this is one ofminnesota's largest resorts. in the summerof 2015, shortly before filming of thisdocumentary many homes and businesses inthe brainerd area were struckby a
derecho, a violent thunderstormwith powerful straight line windsâ» â« reporter: the brainerd lakesarea is still reeling from last night'spowerful storm. besides trees falling down,power lines took a hit tooâ»â« scott: the storm damagewas being repaired as we filmed at cragun's. dutch and irma'sresilience was evidentâ» well i'm dutch cragun and we're at cragun's resort in gorgeouseast gull lake. and i'm irma cragun and
i'm joining my husband, merrillcragun on the shores of east gull lake. well going back a little bit ofhistory, my father, in college, he had a good friend at the universityof minnesota in the minnesota daily, and they wereboth advertising pals. so jack madden, his pal, had an interest in the pine beach golf course uphere
and his uncle tom was the owner. jack madden, as he now owned the golf course, if he'd pay for it, enticed myfather to buy some property which wenow have as cragun's but only seven acres and build some cabins to playgolf on his course. and ah, that was done by various means,where
eight different families goteight different blue prints. there were no big constructioncompanies around here in those days and so the eightfamilies made their own cabins and they were completed in 1940 and we opened in 1941. so, next year is our 75th anniversary. my name is nancykrasean, i'm the director of marketing for cragun'sresorts. this was the originalbuilding
that was the first buildingthat cragun's built when they moved up here in1940. dutch's father, merrill cragun, hismother, louise, they built this first building toaccommodate their first guests. 1941 my dad signed the mortgage at the citizens statebank in brainerd on december 6th. and guess what happened ondecember 7th? the japanese bombed pearlharbor.
so, that was my early career. i was eight years old and mydad said my job now is to run the worms, minnows, and frogs bait department and that i did, through the war. the wartimewas a real challenge because ah, there was a fear that people wouldn't takea vacation at all. and gas was rationing, so was
ah, tires and with a b-card "b" as in boy, you could make up to brainerd and backwith ah, the ration for that week. so, we looked out further northfrom nisswa on up to bemidji was beyond that b-card. well um, everything was rationed,including gasoline. and so if you had
a b-card, that was a little bitmore than the a-card and the b-cardmeant about 10 gallons of gas a week. so, if you were able to save up a little bit, you could leavethe "sin twities"â« cymbalscrashâ» accept the pun, take the car up and coast down hillâ« chucklesâ» and,by the way, the only two routes were aroundlake mille lacs
or up through little falls. and so if you got here, i'dbe...you spend about five gallons of gas, keep low speed,by the way they had the speed limit downto 40 so you wouldn't be using a lot of gas and you hadenough to get to brainerd, maybe to nisswa, the north end of gull lake butthen beyond that even up to breezy point andfurther north bemidji, they were...it was outof range.
it was hard for them to make itthere and back on that b-card and so they really hurt. people in the northern part ofthe state resorts really hurt and my dad having organized thepaul bunyan playground association,then organized the minnesota resortassociation. ah, with the resorts thatalready had joined and there were 23 of them andthey took out an ad in the minneapolis paperwhich said "we're still
running!" wasn't very big butit was the best they could do. well here inpine beach area there was a hotel that wasbuilt, there was the golf course,ruttger's was...had a large property of 32 cabins, little old cragun's had eight cabins. ah, down the way was island view lodge whichhad 18 cabins and a paved road!
and all of us were able to house about 250 people and we had one party line phone. 'crank, crank!' ours was twolong and two shorts. and so everybody whocame during the war wanted thatparty line phone to find out what's going on and you knowthey were taking turns "get off the phoneso i can make a call!" â« scott: with years of dutch andirma's work developing cragun's
the resort has grown as largeas a small town. nancy uses a golf cart toconduct our tourâ» so these cabins were some of the firststructures they built out of the side of the mainresort building. so these little cabins and you can seethe wood burning fireplaces were a very important part of alot of the early structures because they always wanted togo year round, open all four seasons and weare open all four seasons, have been from the beginning.well we had eight cabins
through the war and they wereall housekeeping and right after the war then jack madden, my dad's pal, hadthe golf course and decided to gointo the resort business. and so heopened what's called an "american plan resort" whereyou have all your meals served, all three. and so he quickly built a larger resort well then us as a matter offact. and so my dad
also took courage from that, sohe started serving meals, addedfour more cabins. i joined the army after college, went to europe, stayed overthere a year and my dad offered the resortto me to buy or he's gonna sell. and it was some tough decisions to make because i was in berlinafter the war and i was going to school there
and i had the g.i. bill and he called me up and said"how would you like to run a 12 cabin resort?" i said "are you making any money fromthat 12 cabin resort? are you earning a living?" he said "nothat's why i'm selling it. do you want to run it?"â« chucklesâ» i said "well i'mthinking dad, i'm thinking, just a minute."so finally i came back and for two or three years i tried to build it up a littlebit, had
another cabin, a couple, threecabins more. but then one winter i had to be working somewhere in winters tosurvive, i was in san francisco and iwent to a dance hall, the avalon ballroom, and there was a cute little cookie from canada, a nurse, and i asked her for adance. â« that part's trueâ» and that'sthe story of cragun's.
â« chucklesâ» now we're thelargest resort in minnesota, 305 rooms. and otherwise except for her there'd still be 15 cabins. in a nutshell, that's thestory. he makes it sound like i was the carpenter.â« laughingâ» i did help them, but i wasn't incharge. this is where dutch and irmalived. they've lived on property for 50 years
and have last couple of yearsnow they live off property, this house kinda tooka hit from the most recent storms so we're just in theprocess of getting it backtogether again. and it'll be a rental unit nowbut they lived on property so they were veryhandy for any time there was a problem atthe resort or they somebody needed something.probably too handyâ« chucklesâ» it certainly became their life,24 hours a day, seven days a week but they enjoyedit. that was the life
they made for themselves. ididn't think about "well someday we're gonna be bigger."you just did it! and so in the winters it wouldbe the time to add on, paint, then we built the lodge andchanged it around and well i was painting and sewingcurtains and doing all the things thatthe wives had to do. we are heading down the beachroad. we're going to the marina area of theresort.
â« scott: what a beautifullakeâ» it is a lovely lake. we'recoming up on the north beach area. this is where we do weddings.everybody wants to have an outdoor wedding by the lakeso surprisingly this year otherthan our storm weekend um, the weather cooperated forour weddings and i don't think they had tobring any of them inside. so, we always have a badweather backup just in case.
but um, this is where theweddings are held under the willow trees. so, it's a, it's a lovelyfacility on the lake. â« excited whooingâ» i give a litany every week. we welcome guests and when i do i tell them"we're having music, we're gonna have a fishingclinic, we're gonna
be having bingo at 8 o'clock, we're gonna have a bonfireright after that we're gonna roast marshmallowsand that's just sunday. now look at the planfor...we got for ya to do monday." our success ithink is that there's so much to do that they can't get it all donein a couple days, they gottastay longer and come back. so we'recoming up on the marina area and this is where our guestscome to rent pontoon
boats, work with fishingguides, speed boats, paddle boats, the hydro bikes. the canoes and row boats arefree for our guests to use. on a busy summer weekend you'll see mostof these pontoons out and about on gull lake fishing or justhaving fun in the sun in the winter time this wholearea is a skating rink. so, we havea huge lighted skating rink that gets very well used. ourrecreation program
has snow bowling and differentevents that take place on the ice andthen we have hockey and broom ball and that's outthere if they want to play that. cross country skiing,snowshoeing. um, all of that is...surprisingthe number of people that want to be out andplaying and having fun in thesnow. as much as people that want tobe out here in the summer time. but those first years we didn'thave the money
to finish the deck or the areabelow it, so we said we got the world'slargest snowmobile garage. it was just a big emptyspace. but that was a big turningpoint in our decision to ah make aprofessional year round resort. and to havepeople who were committed to serving year round. instead of justsummer students who would be here and go. these arefolks
that had really made our place,i think, a fun spot for families. â« water splashingâ» â« scott: from the highlydeveloped cragun's we head back up north to the big winnierv park and campground. a resort in the heart of theleech lake nation. we meet with arnolddahl-wooley, a 5th generation owner/operator with knowledgeof an amazing history of his resort and theareaâ»
well, my name is arnolddahl-wooley, i am the 5thgeneration to own the big winnie store rv parkand campground located in bena,minnesota. the history of this resort andcampground kind of stems backfrom 1932. my great-greatgrandfather, ernest flemming, had this placebuilt, developed and this became a trading post andalso a tourist attraction for many people from all thedifferent areas. in the historyterms of the big winnie store rv parkand campground this is located in the centerof leech lake indian reservation
and this was the beacon storeand resort in the area. there were 30-some cabins thatused to surround the area and a lot of people came herefor living purposes working purposes and alsoemployment. ernest flemming actually, his first wife was a full native woman by the nameof julia. and that would be mygreat-great grand...or great-great grandmother. andthey're the ones who had thisbuilt, developed, and they wanted tomake sure it was near therailroad.
cause back in the 30's therailroad meant business. that's where all the shipmentsit would come in on people were transported on andwent to their daily lives and homes and workand etcetera. and lakeshore actually wasn'tvery popular land back in the day. so, in 1932 wedid own the lakeshore, but that was lateron sold because it was considered not profitable backin 1932. which vice versa, you wouldwant it to be on
lakeshore today. but we areclose to the lake of lakewinnibigoshish which is one of the largerfishing lakes in the state ofminnesota. throughout history after ernestflemming it passed down to his daughter then his adopted daughter whichwas katherine kagly. and i knew her as mum. andright now i currently live in her house. cause their housewas built on the grounds on theproperty which is just a little waysaway from the resort itself. and ah, she was a wonderfulwoman. she lived to be 94.
and ah, but then the resort waspassed down to her daughter, which was marguerite. and margurite met mygrandfather, arnold dahl whom i'm named after. and hewas from north dakota. and so, it was sold outside thefamily actually for a short period of time andthat's when it took a nose dive a little bit. and that was, itwas pretty well documented thata resort was in disrepair for a periodof time. and that's when my father gotit. and so he started restoringthe
building and restoring, ah,certain areas of the land itself. and then, it came down to me. my great-greatgrandfather, ernest flemming, the one whohad this place built and there's an interview that he had doneyears ago and i got to read it. and it talked abouthim living in the area here and also about how heworked with the native american people foremployment cause he used to get pelts, ah, furs and do anexchange.
also give them employment topeople of different cultures and races and so forth. and i kind of see things emanatingtoday even of what it used to be backthen, that's what's kind ofhappening today even. and so things kindof made full circle on that issue. and then, mum that would be katherine kaglywhich was my great grandmother, who's home i livein right now. there's a
great picture of her in the20's wearing her native regaliastanding next to a tree. and that's oneof my favorite pictures of her cause she's smiling and she wasvery happy. and i only knew heras an elderly woman. but to seeher in her youth and knowing that she used to runaround in this place and play and it kind of connects me withthe history of the place herestill because i knew her personallyand to see her in her youth, it was kind of afull circle thing for me and my memory and livingher in her home. we
do have other pictures insideof the store and it shows theresort what it used to be back in the30's, 40's and 50's. and there used to be a lot ofcabins here, a lot but atornado had come through and it wipedout most of the cabins. and so that was devastatingduring that time period. just for the loss of thestructural buildings. and so today you know, we had restoredthe original two which i was very happy to saveand salvage those and bring themback to their original glory.
to go forward today on adifferent route which was we put an rv park in andexpanded some of the rustic camping and that was for needsof today. and as you can see, a lot ofour customers personalize theirown spot. they always make, ah, bring intheir own stuff and decks and so forth and flowersto make another home away from home. the land thatwas sold by my great- great grandfather, ernestflemming, was sold for ah to the ccc camp. and that was agerman prisoner
of war camp. and a lot of thelocal people in the town worked over there.so we have pictures inside that show the barbers gettingtheir hair cut. the prisoners here were treated very well.they were fed very well, theywere taken care of very well and a lot ofthem came over to work on thegrounds of this resort itself. and theruins are still there. and we've actuallyhad a few people that were very elderly come back to this areato visit. and right now we're just rightback down to the ruins of it.cause
it's a part of the history andit's part of...part of bena. this camp was here and theemployment that offered and this resort offered andthen the local townspeople that are still alive, they'redescendants of..of the peoplethat used to be a part of that history.one of the biggest draws for the big winnie store rvpark and campground is the historical landmarkitself, is this...the appearance of thestore, the red white and blue. it...when you drive by youcan't miss it, it's a veryunique
building. and another draw thatwould be out here is we're surrounded by fivedifferent lakes. so if you'rehunter and fisherman, you can go outand fish all day if... you can try out differentlakes. the area is beautiful. we're on the center of thereservation so there's all different kinds of experiencesyou can have. you can go topowwows, meet the...have the nativeamerican experience and culture and find out what it is to benative american today. and find out that there reallyisn't a lot of differences in
between all of us. some otherof the unique aspects of thisarea is we're on green routes. andso we have people that arebiking from all over the united states. andso we're in the center of all of that. and so this is oneof their major stops. so we'll meet people that arecoming from seattle travelingto new york. and they'll come herespecifically because of thehistorical aspect of this place. the historicalbuilding and the area itself. and alsoit's..it's right smack dab in the middleof...of where they need to go.
and so they're reallyappreciative of that. theresorts in the area, when you're comingthrough a small rural town you don't realize that thepopulation in the summer grows quite drastically. cause allthe people that have their vacation homes or rvsites they come to this area so a small town of a fewhundred can grow to a fewthousand during the summer time. and allof us are connected by four-wheelertrails, atv trails hiking trails. and so we're allinterconnected
in some form or fashion. whenyou're in a rural area, all the resorts and supperclubs, we're all connected. and we all rely on each othertoo, for different purposes and needs. and this is thereason why a lot of our customers come from all around,is for lake winnibigoshish. lake winnibigoshish is one ofthe largest lakes in the stateof minnesota. the fishing's greathere, the swimming is great. just the outdoor living
aspect of winnie itself. it's a beautiful lake. this isthe place to come to. winnie is great for this isbecause there are sandbars soyou can be way out there and the water willstill be like waist high. parents used to say, "come onin! you're too far out!" but the water was only here.it's a beautiful lake, it's very peaceful, it'scalming. you can't ask for anything more.â« scott: faracross beautiful lake winnibigoshish,from mr. dahl-wooley's resort
is bowen lodge. owned andoperated by bill and gail heig, bowen lodgeis perched high above the waves of lake winnie and ashort walk to a smaller secluded water, cut-foot-siouxlakeâ» hi, i'm gail heig and i live at bowen lodge on lake winnibigoshish in northernminnesota. my husband bill and i have been inthe resort industry for 33 years. we first came
into the industry when myfather-in-law bought the resort in 1982. and we have been hereever since. it is an awesome place and we're fortunate that we have somany people that come back year after year. and it becomesa tradition in their families and...and...it these kids, look at them,they're riding their bikes forthe first time without having their parents being right withthem. parents say
over and i've heard it manytimes, that this is the firsttime they can really ever let theirkids run around in freedom to enjoy just, you know, that they don't worry aboutwhat's going to happen to them at bowen lodge. so herband jessie bowen came over herefrom cut-foot-sioux inn and then to eagle nest.when he died over at eagle nest, jessiebowen who they also called ma bowen cameover here
to bowen lodge. they ran bowenlodge with ah, her and her daughterand son-in-law. and then they sold it in 1946 to george and rose goodwin. and the goodwin family ran the resort for, probably 20 years before selling it to one other couple and then they sold it one more time.these were just
short term ah, stays for thesepeople. and then in 1982 my father-in-law bought the resort and we have been running it eversince. so from 1982 until now 2015, we've run bowenlodge. well, i can't decide if i love my front yard better or myback yard better? it's spectacular. and i love thesedays
with these billowing cloudscome in like this. and these idyllic days of summerwhere you can just kick back. i have two boys thatgrew up here, and they lived in a dream world. i mean,look at this is what they grewup in every day. sand castles on the beachand hangin' out and making friends. andswimming. and tubing, jumping on thetrampoline. and it's pretty...pretty goodstuff. there are a few things that
make bowen lodge unique. ithink a big drawing factor actually is that it isan owner operated business. when theycome here they are going to see bill andgail. they are going to ask about our kids. being owneroperated we spend a lot of attention ondetails and we listen to our customers and we makechanges when we have to make changes. the lake itself is unique to this area. it's a70,000
acre lake that is 96%undeveloped. and never will be. so when theygo out fishing they're guaranteed to see baldeagles and loons. there won't be jet ski's, there won'tbe docks. there won't be private homesalong the shore line, it's allvery undeveloped. i love trees and and i have a real reverence fortrees and this is my favorite tree onsugarbush point. it's a old, old grand daddy
sugar maple that the indiansused to tap. you can see all the butt swells from where theyused to it. and i love to do a core a sample and seehow old it is, but it's hollowin the middle. so it's ah, hard to actuallyage it. but i mean it's just you know imean i just love just to walkover and put my hand on it and think of all thethings and what happened with thistree. it's pretty amazing. ithink when people come here, theyknow that there will be changes every year because we upgradeand we do changes every yearbut we
still keep the core values of afamily resort. and their tradition ofbowen lodge. they have to know that they arecabins they're not lake homes, they'recabins and they have to enjoy the fact that they are cabins.and we really like that. one of the things that i'mreally proud of that gail doeshere is that ah, she plants tomatoes at each cabin and then she has herbs.how many places have ah tomatoes at eachcabin?
well, this area that we're inis also bordered on a research naturalarea, it's called the battle point researchnatural area. is designated for old growthhard wood old growth oak, bass wood andmaple. and it was designated in i believe 1991 bythe forest service and the natureconservancy as a protected forest. so there isno motorized traffic around us. it is the largeststand
of northern hardwoods west of the mississippi. so there is noother stand like this of these oldgrowth hard woods west of the mississippi. youcan go over towards cass lake and you won't see any hardwoods like you have right here on this stand. it's never beenlogged and it's never beendamaged by fire. so it's extremelyunique there are protected plantspecies here that you don'tfind anywhere else in the unitedstates.
seems kind of funny i'm goingto take some time to show you aseptic system. but one of the thingsthat happened in the shore linezone is that you know, overdevelopment is really hard on the lake and so youwant to make sure that theseptic isn't flowing. so we took greatmeasures to build a system well way way from thelake. so that we could still developand make bowen lodge what it is withoutharming things. and so alleverything collects and comes here. andthen these black
pods that you see are full ofirish peat. so all the affluent that comesfrom all the cabins get pumped back here andtreated. the irish peat actually treats it and thensends it into the ground. and then flows awayfrom the lake so nothing ah, goes towards thelake at all. and it's really interestingcause a lot of people come hereand they spend their money and i love totake them here to say this is where your money goes,this is what we do to
our do our job to protect theenvironment. so we like to keep that reallypristine and beautiful. we're surrounded bythe chippewa national forest. we actually are bordered in allareas by the chippewa nationalforest, it's over a millionacres of national forest land. we're also within the leech lakeindian reservation, so we are private land on thereservation in the national forest. and on the um
the upper mississippiwatershed. so this is all very veryunique, the mississippi river runs through lake winnie.and ah, 3 other water systems feedinto lake winnie. so it's really a uniquearea, we love it. it's absolutely beautiful. scott: our tour takes us backsouth to nisswa, minnesota where wevisit the historic grand view lodge on gull lake.my name is
mark ronnei. i am the generalmanager here at grand viewlodge. i've been here for 38 years. i was in hotel school inmarshall, minnesota. and ah, after i graduated therei came here to do 3 months and i never left. istarted here as a summer intern. i think myinternship was almost over. grand viewlodge was founded in 1916 by a gentleman with thename of m.v. baker. mr. baker, his ah
goal in life was to be a realestate developer. and he put grand view together as away to get people to come up here, stay at the resort andbuy some real estate. he owned 2 1/2 miles of shore line on the north shore of gulllake when he first moved up here. today, the valueof that is incalculable. but he was aheadof his time. ah, he sold 50 foot lots on thelake and his wife ran the hotel. i'msteve hanson, i started at
grand view lodge in 1981. imanage the garden pro shop that's just a few feetaway from this spot. i'vealways been interested in history.especially grand view'shistory. about 3 years ago i started puttingthe archives together a bit on my own. and then acouple years after that grand view embraced the idea ofour centennial that was comingup very soon. now we're looking atnext year, 1916 was the key year for grand viewto begin with. and of course 100 years later we're in2016. behind me is
our cottage, i call the bakercottage. the founder of grand view wasmarvin v. baker. he and hiswife harriet started this business.initially it was supposed to be a real estate businessaccording to marvin. but harriet was a greathostess. they could see thecompatibility of the two businesses workingtogether. and it was a hit. it's ah, lastedall this time every season's been covered for99 years right now. when they arrived here in 1916as owners
on the property was a lodgethat had built by ah sheriff spauldingand he owned grand view for a year. hedidn't call it grand view itwas just going to be a hunting lodge. but thebakers saw that as a place where they could entertainpeople. that was the start ofit. there were a few rooms. in whatwe would now term like a small hotel. inside those walls wasthe homesteaders cabin of the berg family. theytried to make a go been here for about 10 years,right around 1890 to
1900. didn't work out. therewas some turmoil about the property, just no bodyseemed to know what to do withit. but when marvin baker saw theproperty he could see what itwould look like in a few years. gulllake was still in a point where it was ah low yet. ah the primitive dam was just beenbuilt, so it was filling upinto the reservoir we now know as gulllake. so when marvin baker and harrietbaker started grand view it was simply the large hotel thatwas just over my right shoulder.
june 1st 1921 the lodge openedfor business. it created a centerpiece for this lodge that we've developed through allthese years. initially it was used for dining, smallkitchen, large dining room, lobby and a ballroom upstairs. it was actually maybe thehottest place around for a decade in the 20's.regular dances a beautiful setting on a greatlake. we're at a time of prohibition so it's a littlecomplicated as far as theculture.
um, there were ah people fromchicago that were in the boot legbusiness. i think minnesota was mostly used as aplace to get away from thetrouble. and ah, the violence for themost part. ah, they all had gambling and alcohol. and ah, it was a time that ah, deserves further study. but it is a part of the area.it went on throughout the 20's into the 30's. in
1937 ah judy and brownie cote, ah a couplefrom edina, minnesota bought grand view lodgeprimarily as a place to house the parents of the kids who attended the campsthat they owned on the next lake over. theyowned camp lake huberts and camp lincoln which werefounded in 1908. these are world renownedchildren's camps and they needed a place for the parents to staywhen they were dropping off
the kids and sometimes for thewhole time. so they purchasedgrand view at that time as just another oneof their businesses. mr. andmrs. cote had grand view lodge and thechildren's camps and those were summerbusinesses. and then they gotinto the ranch business. right nowthey own tanque verde guest ranch, which is one ofthe nations largest dude ranches. and that's in tucson,arizona. now they have opposite seasons and theystarted to get into the ah, resort business alittle more earnestly.
ah, once they got in the...theah ranch business. they realized that,you know, they could expand grand view to be something morethan just a spot for somecampers parents. and grand view grewfrom being open 100 days a year, which iswhat it was when the camps were it's primarymission, to now being open all year round. the lodgewas built where it is right now because down by the lake it'squite low. and they needed to get it up ona spot
where they could view the lakeand it would be safer from the changes in elevations ofthe lake. the flooding that waspotentially there. the permanent dam was built ongull in 1912. and steadily throughout the teens, the lakeimproved as far as appearance fishing, it's a higherelevation than it used to be often. but it gavethe beautiful lake that we now know. the uniqueness ofgrand view is in it's atmosphere. people havetold me hundreds
times, a thousand times,they're not on vacation until they turn intoour front door. when they turn into theentrance of grand view,everything melts away. they're on vacation.things change. grand view has grown from 200 guests to a1000. but our atmosphere, the feeling of a family resortwhich we were first of all the feeling of being truly upnorth in minnesota it's a minnesota resort, thetrees are here, the atmosphereis here,
the obviously with the mainlodge being configuration it isout of logs people come here from all overthe world and they just havethis unique experience of this isnorthern minnesota. we've kept the trees, we havemultiple multiple 150 year old treesaround here. they love seeing that. we haven'tover developed the property. but it's that feeling, theyfeel safe here. they feel like time stands still just alittle bit. when they're walking down tothe lake, they're walking onthe same path that someones
walked for 100 years. andthey're looking at the same lake that someones looked atfor a 100 years. they're comingout of the same front doors of the lodge thatsomeones come out for a 100years. that's a pretty uniqueexperience. for me the excitement about thiscentennial for grand view isgoing to be the fact that's going to mirror americanhistory. well as a historian i appreciate that these 100years were the 100 years of thegreatest development in theworld and especially in our country.the whole age of technology
started about the time grandview started. the radio, television,everything we know the computer age, everythingdeveloped during these 99 years and we'll be celebratingnext year. hi, i'm frank soukup, director of marketing.and welcome to grand viewlodge. behind us is the historic mainlodge of grand view built in 1921. so let's take a tour ofgrand view lodge. this is where everybody's vacationbegins. this is the front desk in the mainlodge. and of course
everybody's favorite place toget their photo taken right in front of the fire placebelow the moose. we actually had so many peopleasking us to take photos oftheir family in front of the main fire placethat we had to actually put aphoto booth here. this way they can share it viasocial media. and just send it to themselvesand take a photo at any time of the day without any body'shelp. and before grand view actually became the golf clubthat it is now, we were also known for tennis. andtennis we were known nationally.
and that was our main seal.this is every body's favorite sweet spot atgrand view, the chocolate ox. the chocolate ox is an icecream shop and of course everybody's favorite candystore. toffee, chocolate, fudges truffles. every type of candyyou could think of. and of course a fantastic staffright behind the counter. â« hiâ» this is our lodge diningroom and originally the historic lodge was built asa meeting place and also as aplace for our guests to dine whenthey stayed at the inn. so this
is where they would come in fordinner, breakfast and lunch. now it's just a restaurant fordinner. 1979 we were labeled as a historiclodge, so it's importantwhenever we re-do or try to re-fixthings up that we're usingthings from the era, ah, to actuallymake the mends. but when we turned this intoit's own restaurant we tried to keep with some of thosetraditions and utilizing thingsand art work from the area and thestate. many of our guests prefer notto sit inside especially on anice summer
day, so of course we have thisbeautiful outdoor patio foreverybody to enjoy dinner. to my lefthere is actually the grand staircase and themain artery for everybodystaying on the main property to get tothe main lodge while they're dining. and asyou noticed, there's lots andlots of flowers. over 10,000 flowersare planted every single year at grand view. ah, it's justunique to our whole property. as you can see, theflowers really enhance theview. and it makes you just happy,they're coming to dinner orgoing
back to your cabin. so this is the grand staircase. so the grand staircase here,we'll do over 100 weddings a year just off ofthese staircases. lot of weekends we'll doanywhere from 5-7 ceremonies that are literally off thisstaircase. and the bride willcome down the stairs, people will sit tothe left and the right and the vows are actually spokewhere we're standing. so the most important and mostpopular area of our whole resort
especially in the summers, isthe beach. and the beach contains 1,500feet of sandy beach on north side of gull lake. aswell as our small restaurant loonies, and thenour waterpark which is open year round. â« sounds of kids playing inbackâ» so we're looking at roy lakecabins which are some of our mostpopular cabins, especially for romantic couples. they're onebedroom fully modernized
cabins that sit just feet offof roy lake. because grand viewsits on 640 acres, you can have easily a1,000 people on main property over here at theroy lake area, without really realizing that there'sthat many people. the roy lake area has it's own privatelittle marina and beach. a lot of our families reallyprefer these areas because they're not on the mainbeach or main property there'sa little seclusion and a little morequaintness to them.
so at grand view we have twoprofessional golf courses,champion style. one is the preserve. butwe're gonna go check out the pines. so my name is jeffmunneke, i'm our vice president of fanexperience and basketballacademy with minnesota timberwolves and lynx. ah, thisis an annual outing that we have every year called the timberslugs open. which is a portion of obviously ourtimberwolves staff our lynxstaff and then several other assortedmembers that come along fromthe university of minnesota, nike golf, as well as a coupleof other friends. and so
this is an annual event that wedo, get away from the officefor a couple of days before the season. we call itthe timber slugs open and we play for a pair of green rubberwork boots. and we inscripted the names ofthe winners into these and sothese are fairly recent. the old workboots got a little bitweathered and tattered. ah, but ah theseare the new work boots. our champion just donned theseand put these on and this isour traveling trophy on a year to year basis. golfis huge. spa is huge. laying on thebeach, reading the newspaper
is huge. walking around with acup of coffee is a huge activity here. all thefitness activities. bicycling, i mean there aremore bicycles than people here sometimes. you see people justrelaxing. we have six restaurants andthey want to be taken care of so that includes the fact thatno body has to cook. but they can come out fordinner in a differentexperience without leaving the resort. scott: crow wing crest lodge inakeley, minnesota is our next
visit. kim and big john bowenown and operate this resort at the headwatersof the crow wing chain of lakes. my name is kim bowen and my husband big john and ibought this resort called crow wing crest lodgehere in akeley back in 2001. this is our 15thseason in resorting. wonderful years, challenging years. andwe are still happy at what we do. that hasto say
something. ah, we feel prettystrongly that we are just stewards of thisplace, there's a lot of history here. a lot of folks that havebeen coming back year afteryear. and ah, we're really just here to take care of the place andgive it on to other folks in thefuture, so. ah, one of the interestingthings about this place is ourlodge was built in 1898 as part ofthe red river logging company. thatwas
an akeley project with a biglumber mill. it was started in a partnershipbetween h.c. akeley and t.b.walker. and ah, the lumber mill in akeley was about a 17 year runand they came up to this area for the whitepine. ah, one of the interesting thingsthat we found when we wereputting dryers and washers in the backpart of it, is we were drilling through the wallto put a vent in and all of this saw dust started comingout and that is what they
used for insulation. becausethat's what they had! an abundance of saw dust. sothat was kind of an interestingstart. once the mill burnt down in 1916 this was sold off to a numberof different owners until world war 2. ah, another interesting aspectbefore world war 2 was a ladynamed annabelle carins bought it andran this place as aunt polly's girls camp from1931 to 1939. and we have thiswonderful photo
the oldest one that we have oftwo young ladies in the driveway with littlepinafores and handkerchiefs ontheir heads, so. i don't know kind ofa strange little thing, girls wereshipped in here by rail tolearn etiquette? in the middle of north woodsminnesota, so that was kind of an interesting part ofthe history. and it was nothing for a couple of years duringworld war 2 due to a gas shortage. and then a couplenamed marv and edna richmond bought it in 1946. andthey are the ones that
really turned this into afamily vacation resort. the very first time we drove inthis resort when we were looking, it wasthe middle of february there was 4 foot of snow on theground. kim and i saw the owners home, looked atthe bridge and we looked at each other andwe said, this is it. and this is after looking at 70or 80 other resorts. you just kind of had thefeeling that it was sacredground. and it was just so beautiful.the trees
the road, the entrance to theresort. and right now, we are crossingthe actual headwaters of the whole crow wing chain.11 lakes, 60 miles of river. and just like lake itasca, it'sin my yard. and the sound of a babblingbrook all spring is quite a gift. we just love it. it's not justa place to vacation with your kids,that's important in and ofitself.
when you get away from yourhome environment and you're patterns ofbehavior, there's a a big gift in that. you're doing yourself a gift. in your mentalhealth and well being. this place in particular, ithink really entrenches the idea ofrelaxation and getting off the grid if youchoose. i love some of these photos to illustrate that. so ilook at this photo from maybe 1953 of a bunch of adults
sitting on hand made swings,watching their children frolic in the lake. onpaddle boats and canoes and row boats. andif you walk down there today 2015 you will see parents sitting on the swings andwatching their kids playing in the lake, frolicking,laughing. flipping around on stand uppaddle boards now and still kayaks and paddle boats andthings. â« people talking in backgroundâ»
one of the nicest things that was in my wish list whenwe looked at resorts was being on the northeast sideof the lake to catch the prevailing wind tokeep the bugs off. another great thing about thispiece of property is the common area everybodygets to use is next to the lake shore,which so many resorts the cabins are lined up righton the shore and you wake people up going fishing, starting aboat. to where we
have the swings, the basketballcourt, the volley ball court, the beach. and we havetwo tiers of cabins. all with lake view. butwhere everybody gets to play there are nocabins and ah, that's pretty rare as far as resorts inminnesota. ah, it's a beautiful gatheringarea and that's what we people do.we do a pot luck luau every thursday night wherewe dress hawaiian, play hawaiian music.sometimes that's the only good
meal a resort owner gets in aweek is the potluck luau, so. that's one of our favoritenights, and a good way foreverybody to get together and know eachother. we are traditional resort we offer traditional thingshere, cabin by the lake. activities that wedo, traditional things like bingoand kids crafts and pool table tournament and sandcastle contest. my husband big john and i, wehad a vision of what we wanted to createhere. and that was to
incorporate our more holistichealing kinds of things into this environment. we feltit was a really good fit for us. and we immediately startedas soon as we bought, boom went right into him, in factright now what he's doing is working on two people back toback doing reflexology in ourbasement. so he'd been doing that forabout 40 years before we moved here. and so iteach aroma therapy classes. i started drummingcircles 15 years ago. we do retreats in the springand the fall. lots
more friends of ours come upand provide massage services. we do yoga on thelawn every week and ah, we have a lake sidesauna. we have a little bit deeper opportunity ithink for people to really heal if they want to. and we're not pushy about it,just like if you don't want tocome to bingo well don't sign up for it. wehave a sign up sheet foreverything. if you don't wantto do origami frogs with the kidson tuesday, well don't sign up for it. go read a book inyour cabin, do what you want,pet the chipmunk
whatever. if you want, you cancome to aroma therapy class if you want, you get your feetworked on. ah if you want you can have an ionic detoxfoot bath or get your earscandled. there's opportunities here thatah make us a little bit unique, ithink. looking up is our 250 year oldwhite pine that we call luna, which singsin any small breeze. and this is also a verypopular cabin with the spirit of the big whitepine.
that's the ancient mother, yes.it's ah the only one they left when they cleared allthe forest and maybe it's causeshe was so gnarly and so many lowerlimbs compared to the ones that they liked to cutdown were 150 feet up to the first limb. so maybe being the old gnarly mother iswhat saved her life. there's two or three others onthe property and one of them died of old age just a fewyears ago. but it's ah quite the canopy here at theresort.
we love it, so. scott: it's a short distance as the crow flies to huddlesresort on beautiful leech lake. roy and kay huddle ownand operate this multi generational resort. well, my name is roy huddle andwe're here at huddles resort inwhipholt, minnesota. that's right on leech lake. i'm kay huddle, i'm roy's wifeand
ah, i've only been up here 34years compared to the 70 some yearsthat roy's been here. roy and i met here up at theresort. i came up here on avacation to stay in my brothers placehere, and we just finally fell in lovewith each other and got married a few monthslater. so we took our time and married afterwe had met each other two and half to three months.â« laughingâ» and ah, it's been great since and nowwe've been married 34 years!kay: 34 years later!
well, i came to be in this lineof business because back in 1928 my grandfather and father cameup and started this resort. therewas nothing here at the time. just the woods. theybuilt the lodge, a small part of thelodge. and added cabins over the years. so it'sbeen a growth period of over many years. when they first came up herethe main highway
went right through the resortand now it's south of it. but the roads coming frombrainerd and that were all gravel even through brainerd,when they first came up. so, a long time ago in historyand it's just grown over the years. andhere we go! now we're on the west end of a little area calledwhipholt. that it's used to be a coupleresorts down that way, but now it's all justsummer homes
and cabins. and privately owned. so this is our end cabin right down here. and then we have a triplex unithere. and cabins like i said, spacedalong the lake shore. and that we're going now, heading west. from the resort. and there arepoints out that we do have a restaurant wedo serve meals.
breakfast, lunch and theevening meals, so. that's our lake shore downthere, with the swimming down there. and thisis primarily swimming in the lake or pulling waterskiers and tubers. this area down in front. again, we're going by thelodge. the old part is with the peakthis way, that's where the old part of the lodge was. we alsohave that's the pool area. we have rv
hookups for rvs. we have ten of those. spaced out around the resort. not in with thecabins but in their area. and this is a duplex unit that has 2-4bedrooms in it. but there's some of theolder cabins that have been placedalong the shore. and that over the years, so. it's a lot of history, a lot offun. i mean it's
one of the oldest continuingoperating resorts in one family in the area and in the state even, youknow. there's other resorts that could beolder but they've changed hands and so it's the draw of people coming to see us andgetting to know us so well and that is a big draw to here.leech lake is an exceptionally beautifullake. it's got a lot of shore line, lot of points andislands. and a lot
of variety in fishing. and atfirst fishing was the main attraction. itwould have been a lot more not the families, it would beguys coming up fishing and doing that type ofthing. but it's grown into a whole family type of resort,operation. not just ours but other resortsin the area. â« wavesâ» and we're on the road thattakes you to the harbor which isabout a block
from the lodge, or a littlemore. and here's part of the crew of kidscoming up. there's kids all over the resort. and thefamily. hi kids!â« hiâ» having a good time, that's whatcounts. hi! so down here is ah, there's an area that we parkboats and that on while they're launching themand putting them in the waterto go
fishing. that little bridgegoes across to a cabin we have in the woods. andthat is part of the resort. and this is a little crick thatconnects us to a little lake that we have acouple cabins on. called linda lake. that's an excellent crappie,bass, northern sunfish type lake. and this is a shot of our harbor. there's alot of the boats are out on the
lake. but it's a good protectedharbor, room for about 25 boats, and that. and this is our the layout ofthe harbor. we have gas, bait, minnows leeches, night crawlersanything you need for fishing. there's a shot of just another part of theharbor. scott: that's beautiful! roy:it's beautiful you're lookingdown leech lake now towards the bigpublic beach area
that's a lot of fun to have.and this is bear island out there andpelican. so, just a scan of what thereis in the area. â« waves splashingâ» the lake was here first. and then we followed the lake. and because we like the area like the lake, so that's theconnection of this resort
being pulled here, my folksdid. and it's a big draw for our guests becauseyou can go out and look at the lake andyou can go one day to this area, one day to another area.the lake is a connection to walker. we can goby boat or by car. how are you doing kids? â« ..can we have a rideâ» roy:can you have a ride? â« yeah! we're just that lazyâ» roy: jump on the back. i get a lot of good riders
when i go around announcingactivities and that. so and the kids are alwayswelcome. but they had a long ways to go,they had about 50 feet. so we don't want them worn out. i think theyexpect that roy's going to be pullingtubers and skiers every day. i think they expect there'sgoing to be a family dance a talent show night, we havebon fires. turtle races. once they'veexperienced that they
come back and expect thosethings, you know. look...oh boy!â« laughsâ» scott: madden's on gull lake was struck by thesame storm that damaged other homes and businesses in thebrainerd lakes area. clean up and restoration wasunder way as we visited with the owner operator family. hii'm brian thuringer. i'm the general manager ownerand general manager of madden resorts. we arecelebrating our 86th year
at madden's. this is my 42ndyear. this is my wife deb on theleft. so my wife deb, has also beenhere 42 years. and she is in charge ofthe design of the resort. bothinteriors and exteriors. her father was the founder of madden's with his brother. andthey came to the gull lake area in the mid to late 30's. the first building at maddens,the roberts hotel, which was
built in 1929. and we look at that as our startingstake which gives us the 86 years. maddens sits on about a1,000 acres of land. we've got a couplemiles of shore line. and we are a summer seasonal recreational resort. we have 63 holes of golf. and out of the63 holes of golf we have one golf digest top 100golf course. we were conde nast top 100
last year in the world, whichis terrific for a minnesota resort. we're veryproud of that. my dad is..was jim. um, both gentlemen are deceased now, but. the originalpeople that ah owned most all of the propertyon this end of the lake were fromkansas city. mr. harrison and mr. start. they built theold hotel that brian referenced.opened in 1929 as well as the first 18holes
that opened in 1929 as well. jack was about 26 and my father was 19 when they considered getting into theresort business of which they knew nothingabout. well, they were both at theuniversity of minnesota. and they had an uncle, uncletom madden, who had a bar on 371. and he told them, mr. robertswas looking
for someone to run his golfcourse so jack grabbed at thatopportunity and came up to run the golf course. he invited jimthen to help him. of course, we're talking aboutthe depression so as all developments or as manydevelopments during that period of time they were first hired on a day byday basis. and then were offered tolease it the following year becausethe developers could not afford
to pay them. so the first year, or the second year they werehere they had the opportunityto lease the golf course for $500 for thatseason. they could not afford to paythem the $500. but yet, mr. roberts...harrison and start saw something inthose two young men and decided to deed the golf course to them ifthey would operate it. so that's what happened. andthen
from there, everything wasbuilt as they could build it. ah, mr. roberts...ah, his son or his daughter actually,followed in his steps. ruth gedding andruth and lett gedding, they ranroberts hotel until 1965 and then in 1965 the maddens bought the robertshotel. then in 1970 there was anotherresort on wilson bay, that was owned by maxruttger.
so in 1970 the maddens bought ruttger's resort and maxruttger's resort. so all of the building here has been done since 1929through the years and about every 10 yearsthere's an expansion. so the resort is a littledifferent than most in that it was notbuilt at one time. so there really isn't onetheme. there are many themes. the golfcourses that we have each
were built in a differentperiod and during a differentgolf philosophy. which makes it veryinteresting. so, we feel we have about 300units and because as we have as we'resitting right now at madden lodge, which iscolonial. and then we have wilson bay which istypical minnesota log lodge. and then we have madden inn, which is more of a50's feel. so, guests coming herehave an opportunity
to choose from whatever design they would feel mostcomfortable. and we have all the recreational amenitiesfrom croquet lawn bowling, golf, fishing. ah, we have a full blownmarina. we have a full blown recreationcenter. we have 3 dining rooms and 2 additionalrestaurants. we have a restaurant ofpizza...restaurant. and then we have the classic whichis in our classic
clubhouse. we have a restaurantthat is about 1 mile away from the resort. sowe have many dining options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.hi, i'm abbey pieper we're at maddens, we're down atthe lodge. i'm the vice president here. i'm benthuringer, we're at the ahmadden lodge at maddens. i'm the vicepresident and madden lodgemanager. you know our grandfatherexpanded this area and really put the foot printof maddens here.
our parents put the classic inplace, put our golf villas in place. andah, each generation has contributed significantlyto why maddens is still here. sothat really brings up the question forabbey and i, in which, what arewe going to do to continue that legacy. andwhat do we have to offer to maddens? i thinkit's an amazing amount of pressure. 75% of businesses, family businesses,fail in the 3rd generation.
that is a stat that ben and iare very acutely aware of. and have set ourselves up asbest we can and i think my parentswould say that they have done everything they can to put usin a position where we aren't part of that part of that statistic. youknow, you grow up in the business it's notlike someday you show up andyou you know, are in a newbusiness. we grew up here, but then we've takenadditional steps
to ah, provide us with the toolset that we need to create the next you know, 40 plus years of amazing hospitality.â« readyâ» â« we're readyâ» alright, i'm inviting you tocome with me to tour maddens. i am kathy reichenbach, i amthe marketing director at maddens. i've beenhere for 34 years! my
job description is about 25pages long. i do everything from marketingthe resort to people outside as well as marketingall of our services on property. we are heading upto the historic roberts hotel that brian anddeb talked about in their interview. it wasbuilt in 1929. i meet with a lot of travelwriters, media people do a lot of tours and showingoff this beautiful property. is probably the best part of myjob. we are going
into the roberts hotel that wasbuilt in 1929. you have a view of steamboatbay on this side on the other side ofthe hotel you'll see the pine beach east golf course that wasopened in 1926. this was the original lobby and dining rooms and also guestrooms on this floor. there are 3 floors in thishotel. there are 40 guest
rooms in this building rightnow. some were small hotel rooms that we have madeinto like where we took two smallhotel rooms and made them into one big room. so some ofthe rooms are very unique they have may have two bathrooms inthem. or we have suites. some face the golfcourse, some face the lake. this was owned by arthurroberts who was a hotelier and owned manyproperties around the country. rochester, florida, ah
different areas. and he sold it to the madden brothers in the70's. one of the comments that wehear from our guests is, thisreminds them of dirty dancing. we are going into the golf club areaof the madden inn. we are starting touse a lot of our historicphotos in our guest rooms and our dining rooms,more of our public areasbecause we have an awesome library ofwonderful photography.
so we are over looking the pine beach east golf course.this was the course that was built in 1926. so from this view you get aback side of the hotel. as well as wilson bay. almost from every vantage pointyou can see water. and madden lodge, the diningroom is surrounded on threesides by water, which is veryunusual. and water has a very calmingeffect. if you took
two dynamics of maddens, whichi feel are super important, it'sgoing to be water and golf. so, water and turf we take bothof those and accentuate them so that the public can usethem to their to the maximum ability. andwe're very fortunate that we have a clean lake. and we havea lakes association that takeskeeping our lake clean. fairly good fishing. um,certainly the views are lovely no matterwhere you
can take a boat about 17 miles up and ah, have a lovely day on the lake. we have an experienced culinary staff. ourdirector of food and beverage has beenhere for almost 40 years, over 30 years. and so we keep a culinary staff on a yearround basis. ah they're in training in thewinter. but that certainly stabilizes our food offeringsfor a seasonal resort.
we really try to support ourlocal economy through buying as much localfood as we can. and we found that a lot oftimes these local local products, whether it'sthe chickens that we get out of pequot, the ducks that we getout of pequot, some of the beets that we get out of southof town are ah far better product that wecan get. we really really really make an effort to not only tobe green but find the best ways to supply
the ultimate guest experienceand be green as well. as you go around the propertyyou'll see our chef's gardenswhere we're growing our herbs and yeah, you can havebetter herbs if you grow them yourself. so wereally put a focus in our restaurants on thegreen initiatives as well. having creative dishes, thathave proteins that have been well respectedthrough their lives and all the way to the plate. this is an inlet off gull
lake, so a lot of our guestsbring their own water craft. park them right here, or theymay come in um, just general public out on gull lake may come in, parktheir boat and go to our pizzashop for lunch or dinner. so we take what we do veryseriously. we work on a year round basisto make sure that those people staying hereon a seasonal basis have a great time.
scott: we visited black pinebeach resort near pequot lakes, minnesota onan unseasonably cool august day. while thebeach was empty guests and families tookadvantage of the otheramenities lynn and bob scharenbroich's resortoffers. hi, i'm bob scharenbroich. i own blackpine beach resorts since 1977. we're on thewhitefish chain of lakes in the brainerdlakes area. and it's just a great area tobe in. we're the 3rd owners
of the resort. lynn and ibought the resort in 1977. moved here in early partof 1978. the ah, resort had ah, 6 cabins. so it was a start for us. lynn's mom and i came up driving aroundlooking for resorts and we just happened to stumbleacross this one going down the road and there was alittle sign out there that saidfor sale by owner and we drove in and the restthey say, is history.
so welcome to black pine beachresort, i'm going to take all of youalong on a tour and we'll see what the resort hasto offer and what it's like and give alittle glimpse into the history of this property. so we like to point out that we'vegot this garden area here as kind of a welcome. somepeople that had been customers of oursyears ago had said to me, oh you should make a big
smile when people come in. so we did that. we took a partof our property there and made it intoa nice smile garden. and that's what thatis, a smile to welcome everybody when they firstarrive. it was 1977 lynn and i had been looking atresorts primarily in the newspaper. we had lookedat a few resorts over the years. but we hadn't found anythingthat we liked. we'd been talking about gettinginto the resort business for afew years
and lynn actually grew up at aresort. and moved when she was 12 yearsold, so it was already in herblood. and ah, it sounded like a goodendeavor to me as well. so right now, we're getting to a part of theresort that was not originally part of theproperty. when we purchased this was owned by anotherfamily. ah, they decided to sell andwhen we bought it, this part and
then um a little ways overfurther that you can't see right now beyond that tree, was theproperty that we bought. we found out later after wepurchased it that this cabin, number 9, was in fact once upon a time, partof our resort and they added two wings onto that property which now makesit look a little different thanthe other cabins. but it was fun to find thatout. the history of the resort goes way back to 1938.
people by the name of marionand anne arnold from salem, nebraska built the resort fromscratch. they had people build theresort for them which was kindof unusual in the time. the banker ah,made them use ah, western lumber insteadof local lumber which was unusual. and alsothat the resort owner didn't build the resorthimself, he had a constructioncrew build it. the arnold's ownedthe resort until ah, 1967 or 68'
and then a couple by the nameof stewarts bill and amy stewart bought theresort. they ran it more as a hobbyresort, it was only open from ah, july 1st until august 15th. so it was kind of a hobby one.and they had it for about 9 years anddecided to put it up for sale and that's when we happened tocome across it. now we're getting to where the secretgarden area is. this is the secret gardenmeadow and we've had twoweddings
in this secret garden meadowarea. both of them were with no planb which made me nervous, but theydid fine there was no bad weather and everythingworked out really well. this is the first entry it'shard to see this but it sayssecret garden ahead. and we're coming intothe secret garden area itself. now this isa bridge that goes over a littlewater feature and that little water feature is
in an interesting and historiclocation. it used to be county road 16, which is our road. this is where county road 16 used torun. and it's all over grown now becauseit hasn't been the road bed for a long long time. but it cameup behind what is now our home andright through here and all the way down to wherethe first island is in our lake. that
split our resort that is nolonger a resort either on that end, inhalf and the owners of course didn'tcare for that. so back in the 20's when it waseasier to move a road, they talked to thepeople who were out working on the county road andthey moved the road. so it no longer was the roadbed, so that's kind of a little snippet of history. so we nowhave a water feature right here inthis spot that
was years ago county road 16. and this is the entrance intoour secret garden. one of the special things aboutthis secret garden is the secret garden mail box.we'll go look at that and thenwe'll go on and look at the rest ofthe cabins. children who are here at theresort and sometimes adults too, like to write to thesecret garden elf. so they do that they put their little note to
the elf here in this little secret garden mail box you cansee there's a little reply in there right now. andthat is a reply that the secret garden elfwrote over the night to a child who had a questionabout something within the secret garden areahere. another real fun thing aboutthis garden even though it's in the woods, it's just one loop that goesall the way around you
can't get lost. so littlechildren who want to come into the woods can justwalk in the woods alone with no fear. and they do that a lot. sowe're gonna go back out now and take a look at thecabins. we're coming up now to cabin 11 this one and the one on the other side ofcabin 11 are identical cabins.
those were built when theamericans with disabilities act came out and we needed tocomply with that. we made them so that you could move between thetwo of them easily. so if someone washere and were in a wheel chair theycould visit friends who might be in theother one as well. in fact we had a visit from anadvocate for handicapped folks right after we did thisand that was
one of the features that he wasreally impressed by. often that isn't the case whenpeople are vacationing. if they arehandicapped they can be in one cabin but they can't visit anyothers, so. that was impressive for him andhe said that was a realattractive feature for those folks. sowe're glad we did that. our guests are all unique. theycome from ah, a long ways away sometimes other countries. ahsome
come from as close as brainerdor even pequot lakes. they all have different lifestyles. we have people who work atgrocery stores, we have doctors we have lawyers we have people who build houses. it'sjust endless as to what they do as far as making aliving. i think they, the main thing they allhave in common is they love to be at the lake. theylove to go to the beach. a beach is always important ata resort.
ok, now we're going to switchfrom the cabins to the beach and we'll take a walkdown the walk way and i'll tella story about that. ok, so this walk way does two things of course, it's a walk way. italso channels the run off from the rain so thatwe don't have a lot of washouts and difficultwalking. and it's worked really well forthat. ah, we just repaved the whole resort last year andhad all of
the run off water andeverything um from both walk ways and drivewaysreoriented so it goes into either a rain garden or off onto the yard itself. so right now we're at the beach and you'llsee there's a retaining wall here now that wasn't always a retaining wall. before webought the property people who are still guests ofours tell us a story about a huge tree thatwas
down here and it got cut down i'm not sure what year, but itgot cut down before we had the resort so it was priorto 77'. for many years after we boughtthe resort, roots would come up in the swimmingarea and we would be pulling hugeroots from that tree out. every time we would pull a rootout and those people who recalled thattree were here, they would tell again the story about thathuge tree.
and how much they loved itcause it was a shade tree at the beach. we'll have peopleplaying volley ball, we'll have peopledown on the beach of courseswimming. we'll have people that havedone pig roasts down at the fire pit. we've hadpeople doing fish fries on the fire pit or upoutside of the cabin. just the visiting with people is kind of interesting. peopledon't know each other sometimes when they come herebut they become friends.
and with the social media they can stay in contact with eachother so much more. there's a real ah, involvement i think in most resorters mind set to making their beach area not just a wonderful and beautifulexperience for sand castles and the customer fun but also the environmental sideof it. and you have to
try to balance that a littlebit. um, no one wants to play ingooey junk in the water. so you have tomake sure that you don't havethat everywhere. but also, you want to make surethat you're filtering as much of the rain water and any ofthose kinds of things as youcan and doing what naturalenvironmental growth will do. we have let an area on this end of our beach grow into anatural area. and that is our boat launchingsection.
that area now this year, just sported some swamp milk weed and we had amonarch population there which was just fabulousto see. so even just a little area likethat can do a lot for the natural side of things. scott: our final stop inresorts of the north woods isruttger's bay lake lodge near deerwood,minnesota. father and son jack and chris ruttger offerinsight into their families
historic legacy. hi, my name is jack ruttger and i'm from baylake, born and raised here andi love it. i've worked here allmy life. went away to college, went in themilitary for a couple of years came back in 1955 married andi've been here ever since. working at the resort,i'm the 3rd generation ruttger to run this resort. you carry a lot of pride. mygrand father was the first obviously, hedied when i was about 10. myfather
came on and he's a tremendousoperator. operated through thedepression, the depression of1930. and made this business go. hetold one time of on august 2nd the heartof the season he had two people in the house.august 2nd in 1931 in the depression. he existed and held on and hewas a fantastic operator. so he's a..he's amentor. father was a real mentor to me.and
my grandfather came into thisarea back in, well he came to america in 1882. gravitated up to bay lake in 1888 where hehomesteaded the main island on the front.father was born there in 1892. moved to the main landtraded the 45 acre island for thisproperty and about 1895 had a berry farm here and grandpaworked in the saw mill. people started to come to theresort because
of good fishing. grandma was agreat cook, good german cook. and the peoplethen started to come from the plains states it wasso hot down there. and so we say that our firstregistered guest was in 1898. so that we are 117 years old. and we are theoldest resort in the state ofminnesota still owned by one family. it's always been inthe ruttger family the wholetime. â« scott: jack's son, chrisruttger, took us on a golf cart
tour later that autumn as theair cooled and the leaves warmedâ» i'm rightnow in the middle of what used to be highway 6. and back in ah the 50's it was moved.but back in the day this was highway 6 and we're inthe middle of what was bay lake. a little town. oldhistoric buildings. there was a gasstation, service station general store and then as things evolved it become partof our business. so
now it's a little retaildistrict. the garage, we call it now, is ah clothing and giftshop. and we're just in the middle ofsome renovations so we've been repainting...these arebuildings that are hundred years old so alwayslots of work to be done so carpenters are working onthat in preparation forrepainting of that building. now we'recoming around to the back of the country store,that's gonna get some work doneto it also. but that was built by my great-
uncles, again, over a hundred years ago as the bay lake store. it's now mostly clothing andgifts and other things in there. and then the next buildingcoming up is the fine line salon and spa. it's an aveda concept salon that we have hereat the resort for guests and ah, the localcommunity. it's one piece of the resort the one piece that's open allyear around. so, even in thewinter their
regular clients come in. as wecontinue down the former highway 6, on either side here, to this side, the spa used to be the home of my greatuncle max and his family and thenacross the highway from them was thehome of another great uncle bill and his family. so,these families ah, eventually had their own resorts, therewere five
ruttger resorts. so, thesedifferent family membersbranched out. but i find it interesting toremember that in the winters when these summerresorts are closed a lot of the families, we kinda regroupback at bay lake at the original home base and have their homeshere in the winter time. so, astimes gone on one house is now the spa, theother house is kind of a hospitality guestsuite that we have here as part of the resort. so a lotof ah,
history so woven in along withthe new. a lot of pride and a lot ofpressure. a lot of pride and a lot of pressure. myfather's three brothers allwent in the resort business. the nephew went inthe resort business at ruttger's birchmont lodge in bemidjialso. so there were five resorts at onetime, it felt a lot ofpressure, always a lot of pressure to try andlive up to their legacy and dowell. we're gonna go down to the shore of bay lake and get alook at that area.
bay lake's the reason for ourexistence. now this is fall cooler, you can tell just bythe light of the water the sun shifted south. and thebeach which even a month ago was full of people bathing and sunning isnow pretty abandoned because it'sgotten cool. here's a great view of bay lake. and we're on the
north shore of bay lake. youcan see out here where the fall colors are juststarting to come out isle of pines, now called malcerson island, the islandwhere my great grandfatheroriginally homesteaded when he came herefrom germany so through the long story ofour history he ended up fortunately for us here on themain land and now we have it as a gorgeousview. the family that lives there has developed
parts of it but they've been sonice. our end of the island ispristine so we love our view here so much natural green shoreline allaround. bay lake actually goes aboutfive miles in that direction but it'ssplit up in to bays, hence the name. and acouple of big islands and so you don't really seethat much of it at one time. fun lake to navigate. good laketo fish. well it's bay lake so it haslots of bays.
so the scenic value of bay lakeis what one thing that is very, veryvaluable to our people. they love it. fishing hasalways been a major draw from day one when this resortstarted fishing was a main thing that brought peoplehere. but now golf has come on. we had one of thefirst resort golf courses in the state ofminnesota in 1922. we had a little golf coursedesigned by zig from junction city, kansason a piece of
cardboard. today when youdesign a golf course you'll pay hundreds of thousands ofdollars. he took a piece ofcardboard and a straight edge and lined out a golf course andthat's the golf course we have today, called it alexnine after my father. had five greens, nine tees andin 1930 he re-did that and put it onfour more greens. so now it had nine sandgreens and nine tees and you could see thegreens are fenced in to keep the cowsout.
you could see the cows and thehorses in the background in thepasture and the fairways. so there's noneed to mow the grass because the cows and the horsesdid it and they fertilized the grass besides. so, we hadfertilization and grass mowing with the cowsand the horses on the fairways of the golf course in thosedays. but we then had a golf course to go along withthe fishing. so those were our major drawsfor the activities for peoples activities. i think what sets us
apart in some ways is just it'sa quieter area then some resort areas. we'reon a lake that's gorgeous, good size but not asdeveloped as some lakes. you look out andsee so much natural shoreline here. a lot of peoplecan't believe they're only acouple hours away from the twin cities. certainlythere's boat traffic but not crazy like some lakes where itbecomes almost a skating rink of boats goingaround in precession you know.so it's a fun lake. there's stuffgoing on but it's not as
busy and crazy as some lakes. we are now gonna head over to the golf course. two courses, alexnine and the lakes course and take a look at things out there, somefall colors and pretty scenes. the lakes courseis ah one of my favorite spotsbecause it's a lot of natural terrain andnatural
lakes out there, so. â« motors rumblingâ» get some footage of aarondriving on the green. â« chucklesâ» evidence. â« wheels rumblingâ» " come up over the rise here andwe'll see hole number 18 that comes across bass lake. kind of a tricky shot and idon't see anybody
teeing off so we're ok. this is bass lake. now theclubhouse here is...overlooksthe 18th green and bass lake,beautiful view, people love to sit thereand ah, have a cocktail and watch their friends try to hit ballacross the lake. â« scott: kinda looking forswans, if you see swansâ» yeah i haven't seen them latelybut they said they're outthere.â« scott: are those swans right over thereâ» maybe
they are. good eye, i thinkthey might be up on landâ« scott: yeahâ» i'm used to seeing themfloating on the water. we'll probably scare them upwhen we go over there, we'recoming around that way. tees right along the lakeshorehere and then the pro tees are even onanother spot and a little tougher to hit. itcomes right next to alex nine. so, the twocourses are easily accessible from the oneclubhouse. â« club strikingâ»
our little friends, the swans,are right up ahead here by this little pond. â« wheels creekingâ» across this little bridge.â« wheels rumblingâ» â« wheels rumbling over woodplanksâ» and just up over the rise isgoose lake. a little bigger lake than theother one. well hope we can preserve the natural feeling ofthis course.
we have not built any housing on the course. so, like here,this is one of my favorite views of the wholecourse is across this number 15 green and looking outat goose lake fall colors coming out now. sowe don't have any housing units along the courseand i'm hoping that we can keep itthat way. it just gives it a natural wooded feel that youdon't see as much anymore.
â« scott: with our tourconcluded, we have visited ten resorts inlakeland public television's viewing area. each has shared abrief glimpse to what makes them special.with so many activities offered. so many visitors from near andfar. how has the resorting industryaffected the culture of the northwoodsâ» the resortbusiness, and i know grand view sincei've been here this long, has had a profound effect onevery element of our
community. people, they come up and they have no other reasonto come to brainerd then tocome up here and experience the lakes. what theyend up doing then is buying a cabin on another lake.um, they become long time summer residents.that moves into being up here maybe afterthey retire so they're here all summer or they're here half theyear or they're here all thetime. we've had numerous instanceswhere people have come to the area, stayed at oneof the resorts and
moved their business to thebrainerd lakes area. it's added to the quality oflife because as we've added more amenities the local um,residents take advantage ofthose. it has had a tremendous impacton the area over the years andthat is that resorts themselves have grown andchanged a lot. they're not just fishing camps,now they're more rounded and take care offamilies and a lot of different activities, andthat. and the impact
on the area has been bigeconomically because it draws a lot ofpeople from out of our area plus a lot ofpeople from out of the state come in. and these people not only come to resorts but intime learn to love the area because of the beauty and sothey in turn will build like summer cabins or even come up and live yearround up here. so, the resort industry has helpedadd tremendously
to the growth of our area. whati value about resorts in northernminnesota is um, is the sense of community and coming up here and no matter how much your life has changed ineveryday world, or in what you doeveryday, you come up here and you know everyone and ifyou don't know em you get to know em very quickly and soyeah it's that sense ofcommunity. i have been coming here for,lets see
23 years. i started coming herewhen i was 12 years old so my parents came here and ihave an older sister and two youngerbrothers and i was kind of at the perfect age to come hereas a kid and just kind of went all the way high schoolthrough college and now i'mmarried and my husband comes now withus so. we come for two weeks, which most peopleonly come for a week but wecome for two weeks every year and it's justknowing that you're going to be able to relax and be at thesame place, like
i love the fact that you get upeveryday and you're like, "whatdo you want to do today?" "well, we could go for a bikeride, we could go canoeing we could go kayaking. you wantto go swimming?" and when you're here for achunk of time, you have enough time to just relax and sit bythe lake and actually really enjoy what you're doingand not feel so rushed. it's just something you lookforward to all year long, i feel like my year is broken into twohalves. you've got the first part of the yearwhich is you're looking forwardto minnesota.
and then the second half ischristmas and new years, and that's what break up my yearsand when you look for your time off. i picked thisplace this year over going to sturgis. because i thought it was goingto be so packed with people being therebeing that it's...was the 75thanniversary out there this year. i wanted to stayaway from that. again, you know, it'sgetting out
and being able to do some ofthe things you like to do and not feeling pressure to...of large groups of people.the people who come to the area haveaffected it quite a bit. the retail industry hasgrown immensely for a small town area. we havea lot dining we have a lot of attractions inthe area a lot of golfing. there's somany people that come, that is seemsto be able to support
all of these businesses during the peak of the summer. thereis some winter businesses well it doesn't compare to whatsummer businesses is, but a lot of people dependon the tourists. we really appreciate people comingto the area. ah, i think sometimes peoplewould wish the summer would slow down alittle bit who aren't directlyinvolved with the tourism but they knowthat that is our life blood up here. there's alot of contractors
house builders, people likethat that are working on people's homes in the areas whohave come..live in the area um you know, after beingintroduced to it, by a resort. my name is dennisstoye, we're from mcmillan, michigan which is upin the upper peninsula of michigan. and so far we've been here a couple ofweeks and it's been very nice. it's quite, convenient, with the laundry and the store becausewe stay in it
once out of the year. basically it's for work. my...i'mretired, my wife still works and we travel where ever the work is for her. well, i have two little dogs tostart with which are in the camper now and youhave your own it's like your own home. whenyou're in a motel room you're confined. you can't gooutside and grill out supper or do you know
the dogs have a place to run. idon't like a motel room. i'm retired from staying in motel rooms. i liketo have my house with me. well it's had a huge impact forinstance here we've seen people comehere and on rainy days they go to town, buy souvenirs,we all know that bemidji increases itspopulation in the summer time. we seepeople that came and vacationed here, moved ourbusiness to the area
retire here, kids that come and enjoy the area here, go tocollege here, pick bemidji as a college. we've had people thatbuy big ticket items, boats, cars,pickups and one thing about the resort industry, it's arenewable resource. we sell somebody to view the the lake and thetrees and next week we renew it andsell it to them again.
so it's a real renewableresource. most of the lakes have beensurrounded by private residents. so the resorts have done agreat job of maintaining space for the public. withoutthe resorts there would be verylittle public access to the lakes, to enjoy our naturalresources. so, i think theresorts play a particularly importantrole in that. economically of course thebrainerd lakes area tourism is probably it'snumber one
industry. i don't know whatit's added to the culture, i don't know, it'sjust we've used our lakes and i think we've tried tomaintain quality lakes, it's to our advantage to maintainquality lakes in minnesota lakes. it's a land of lakes,10,000 lakes i think we all are wildlyinterested in making sure we have qualitywater in our lakes because that is what really draws people tominnesota to our resorts. right now we'rein very
good shape. our leech lake tribe and the community, we're allworking together and we're doing things topromote good fishing and good reaction on the ah, lake area and that. and ah, things are going well on leech.we're having good fishing and good communicationand that's very important. my grandfather said something,he was standing up on the first tee and he said,"look around
the water that you're seeing isfar more valuable than oil willever be." and it's the truth. we take alot of pride in preserving our lake. we havewhat's called "green way program" here for our golfcourses. and low and behold doing the old way ofmaintaining golf courses ah, the way they still do it inscotland with very little fertilizer andit's complex process that we won'tgo into but it's a far healthier process for theenvironment and low and behold
it provides a better productfor the golfer as well. ah, golf has become a bigthing. ah, once golf started to grow,we saw a lot of peoplewho...who...brainerd was not ontheir radar in the past because golfwasn't available up here. and i'm not talking about justresort guests but people whowere looking for a place to retire. so, itbecame a much more desirable destination for people toretire to or build their summer house.
you can draw very strongcorrelation between the expansion of golf in thearea and the expansion of theyyear round housing market and thepopulation in general. golf was a real catalyst for growth in thebrainerd lakes area. yeah, if you're having anouting with your family, ah,you know relatives family reunion, ah a workouting, pick this place. i mean, it haseverything. it's got anincredible lodge with incredible meals,unbelievable golf courses
the hospitality here isincredible, it's outstanding.you know, we're on a tuesday ladies league sowe're here every tuesday morning and there's usually many more than us today butit's like a great time to get together and walk thenine holes so it's good exercise it's good comradery, it's agreat place to go on tuesday mornings andhang out with the girls. i think it'sabout mental health ah, mental well-being andspiritual
well-being, and not onlyphysical well-being of gettingoff the grindstone of daily life butcoming to a place like this. nature is such a wonderfulteacher. you can look at the ducks and a learn alesson from them. you canlisten to the loons at 3 o'clock in the morning andlearn a lesson from them. i was speaking to one of myguests a few weeks ago, aneducator, and we had this longconversation about nature being a teacher and hehad related a story to me about howworried he was
for his eldest son who had justgone off to college for a year and as is typicalwith that age kid, he didn't reallytalk about how he was doing, they wouldcall him up, "how you doingson?" "eh, i'm ok, i'm good." so of course this gentleman wasreally worried about his son,how he was doing. and at the end of the year cometo find out this kid turned out to get on the dean'slist. he had done incredibly well and
he said he was here thatmorning watching the ducks, baby ducks hoppingup on our little duck dock where we feedthem everyday. and what he was noticing is that out of fivebaby ducks, two immediately jumped up on the dock and theother three were struggling. could not seem to get up on theduck dock, just couldn't do it.and what did mama duck do? nothing. she just allowed her children to do what they did. whether itwas to succeed or fail.
and he said, "that's just likewhere i'm at, right now. i think i need tostop worrying about my children at this point. and there's alittle lesson for me in nature, you know." i thoughtthat was a good illustration of an example of what naturecan teach us i value north central resorts mostly just how far they are north and just how youreally have the northwoods feel here.and i also
think the way kim and big johnhave really made this resort just veryhomey, you do feel like you're at home. it'salways hard for me to imagine that there's other people thatstay in these cabins duringother weeks. it's like, "that's our cabin!"you know, you get used to thatand they really create a feel that you're at home and it's comfortable. and you thinkof this as being your place even though you're onlyhere you know a week or two out of the year but you knowit'll be here when you get backand
you know you look forward toseeing everybody every year. it's just...it's a really goodfeel up here in general. and as far as, like,logistically just being this far north inminnesota, the woods to me are just beautiful. youcan always tell when you've crossed that half way point inminnesota where you go from what looks more likeplains and stuff to really deep, northwoods with tall pines and you canhear it in the air
when you can smell it, you canhear the wind. it's just a neat, really nicefeel. we have a lot of traditions,actually on the way up here we kind of stop at thesame rest stop on i-29 for lunch and we stop at thesame place before we get here for dinner.and then once we're here we have a family fishingplaque. it's just a fun deal, who caught the biggestfish in the amount of time that we're here? and that'sbeen some
controversy over the years,even between family members where one thinks they got thebigger fish than the other oneand ah, we don't weigh anything, wejust kinda look at it and pick a, a winner. but yeah, stufflike that i mean, it's just littlethings. it's something that everyone in the family looksforward to every year. i'm not sure if my dad touchedon this or not but this resort in particular, it'sso old that when you look around, i alwayslook around and think,
how many different familieshave been here? and how manyfamilies have continued to come to thisresort? i mean there are people that have beencoming here for over fiftyyears, you know! we're at year, i think, 23 now.we've been coming here for 23 years! and i sit thereand think, that's just a barely a drop in the bucketcompared to some of thesefamilies that have been coming for so long. and i just think it's incredible. this resort isreally neat, 19 cabins. that's a huge undertaking. and
it's just a beautiful resort.it's well laid out and you think of how many memorieshave been made here, of mygoodness! you know we enjoy fishing, weenjoy coming up here. we enjoy the family time. it'sthe type of lifestyle that i remember as a kid. maybeyou're trying to relive your childhood, idon't know. but when people areup here nothing is locked. everything'sopen. you don't have to worry aboutyour neighbor. i guess it's theway life should be or used to be at onetime.
and ah, we're going to continueto do it as long as we can. and our families, we're on ourthird generation now, actuallyfourth generation coming up here so. i think it'sreally valuable and really works. it works outreally well and i'm glad it's a tradition that my siblingshave wanted to carry on, too. you know that we can all stillcome up here as a family at least once a year,especially where we live indifferent states now. um, it's really something thati think is...will be good memories evenfor more years
to come. well this time ibrought more of the family andgrand children so it's kind of fun to shut offthe internet shut off the phones and that'sour tradition is just kinda getting away fromstuff a little bit. introduce some of the youngones to fishing and of coursethey like the water, they live in thewater about half the time, so. gosh, you know, that's one ofthe things that has been nice, is that not much haschanged for, in our experience. you know, we...the kids havechanged of course
and ah, and they're ability to be out on the lakeand has changed but the resort hasstayed very much the same. which is that consistency issomething it's been really good. well, abig sense of nostalgic, um, like i said i'vebeen coming up here my whole life for every summer.and so all of the experiences comeback because this is the one place that sort of hasn'tchanged that much
in 30 plus years. just beingable to experience what iexperienced as a child with mykids is ah, something that's reallyspecial to me. i think that because it's beenaround so long it's something that iseasy to take for granted that this is like a hidden gem.but it's funny how many people i runinto down in the cities or even all over the country,that i'll be wearing a huddles shirt and somebodywill come up to me and say that
they've been to huddle's ortheir.. a relative has been to huddle's or a friendhas been to huddle's and theyhad a great experience there. and so i justthink the impact that this resort and smallresorts all over have had throughout thecountry and throughout the world isunder-appreciated. most of my vacations, me and my wife's areused to get away from people not bunches of people butthat's just us of course. i just like the familyatmosphere. i don't like
the loads and loads of people.i don't like to go to thewaterparks and the amusement parks like someof the grandkids do. but i did have my grandson mentionearly just yesterday that this was the best vacationhe'd ever been on. we have a lot of customerloyalty. the people came year after year. ah, they'd have babies and the babies would grow up andthey'd be coming, too. so, yeah we had a good repeatbusiness.
and the more we upgraded ourcabins of course, the more theyenjoyed it. so, it does become like this large family.it's...it's not just peoplecoming and going and that they're juststrangers. they're people that are coming back. they'recoming here for a reason.they're coming here because this is where theirfamilies used to be. their family used to know myfamily and it's just kindaeverybody kinda comes full circle. hardfor people to understand how not just the cragun's but
every other resort operatorthat i've known in this state, i know alot of them um dedicate themselves especially resorts, to either living at the resort ornear by it. i have to say idon't know anything different, i grewup in it but i'm sure maybe our kids couldspeak to that better. providing for the public, whatthe public wants, when thepublic wants it is demanding. but
i don't think sacrifice wouldbe the right word there certainly, i don't...inour family we've had nosacrifices, it's been nothing but fun.obviously we've been here 42 years. so, certainly there are challenges. but thechallenges the rewards of operating aresort and being a smile factory certainlyout weigh any of the difficulties. ican't imagine doing anything else. i can'timagine anybody having
a job that is as fulfilling as what we do. they want to feel validated. they want to feel like, "i mean something to...my money means something to thesepeople." and i think it's up to us as resort owners and aspeople to make people feel like they'respecial. and that the reason that theycame here is a good reason.
and that we really welcome themback and we're you know, sincere about that. get outdoors. take your kidsand grandkids. give them a chance. scott: resorts of the northwoods was made possible by theminnesota arts and culturalheritage
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