Life on a Minnesota Resort: ely vacations rentals

Are you looking for more information about cool places to stay with nice cabins next to a lake in the woods? How about a laid back resort setting on a jewel of a lake next to a creek with a waterfall? I'm pretty sure you'd appreciate nice clean cabins where you can cook your own dinner and take a hot shower. Plus, with a quick walk down to the water you can get in your boat and head out on the lake for the evening. Listen to the loons while you fish. Watch the beaver swim by and see the eagles soaring overhead. Smell the air. It's ultra clean and you'll sleep like a log at night.

I grew up right here at Northwind Lodge and we still hear that all the time from our guests. Complaints such as," I overslept. I couldn't get out of bed. I don't usually do this at home", and on and on. Our guests are constantly oversleeping and don't want to get up because it was so comfortable under the covers with the fresh air and quietness. Then, when they finally get up, they kick themselves for not getting up sooner because the day is beautiful and the deep blue water was calling them. It has always been the conundrum - a Northwind Lodge "vacationer's guilt" - if you will. I guess that's part of the great wilderness vacation experience at our resort NE of Ely and surrounded by the Boundary Waters. Part of you wants to get up and go, the other part of you wants to enjoy the "sleeping-like-a-log" part. You, like the thousands of guests before you in the last 70+ years of Northwind Lodge operation, are going to have to figure out how to resolve this "problem" on your own. We, in the family-operated resort business, have no solution for you.

If you'd like to see some of our resort's rental cabins inside, the following links ought to get you started in the right direction. Just give em' a click and off you go!

Cabin 8