About: Kim Bowen

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…

It's hard to get further away than China. Congratulations Larew family for winning the CWC Bumper Sticker Contest.  They slapped the sticker onto a vehicle and entered a pic with a destination furthest away from their last vacation up north at Crow Wing Crest Lodge.    Voila, Shanghai.   Hey, when you get job transferred, you get…