About: Kim Bowen

  One of the joys of living in the northwoods: critter tales.   I am starting to write down things that happen to us up here at CWC, both as a resort owner and simple lakeside-up north resident.  Am thinking of gathering these anecdotes into a booklet for publishing someday as I continually get the impression…

On September 4, 2016, we hosted the 4th Annual CWC (Kris Krupp) Pizza Cookoff in the lodge. It just so happened that Terry Heller (guy in the yellow cap in pic above), Crow Wing Crest Lodge owner from 1987 - 2001 (when Big John and I bought it) stopped by to say "hi" and join…

What a crew this year to help us pick up the litter along Highway 64 last week.   It went quicker than it ever has in fifteen years.   What a relief!     13 bags -- a typical year for this two mile stretch.   Mostly alcohol bottles/cans, cigarettes and fast food containers and yes, a few dirty diapers…

Longtime CWC guests may remember hometown favorite Em's Cafe in our tiny town of Akeley?   (2001 - 2011?)  Well, Emma is not only still around (and occasionally helping get YOUR CWC cabin cleaned for ya - esp. spring cleaned), but raising a couple of rather increasingly celebrated young gentlemen. Her eldest son, Robert, now age…

We are considering some of the following awesome photos entered by CWC guests this last year for the annual photo contest.   These are not the entire list, just a sampling.  We welcome more entries  --- no time limit.  :)   [caption id="attachment_6096" align="alignnone" width="400"] J.R. likes his sunsets. :)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_6095" align="alignnone" width="240"] thanks for…