About: Kim Bowen

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…

Below is an e-mail conversation with a neighbor who graciously shared some historic data with us, including a map from 1832 of a Henry Schoolcraft expedition - one of many to determine the origins of the Mississippi River - eventually deciding upon what is now Lake Itasca Park, a 35-minute drive from our resort. Our…

Letter from Edna Richmond (owner of CWC from 1946 - 1969) on January 10, 1994, to Connie Converse (owner of CWC from 1987 -2001) " We bought CWC in 1946 from 2 couples who kept it 1 season. Prior to that, it was closed during the war for several years. Before that it had been…

[caption id="attachment_5989" align="alignnone" width="604"] Season of the Albino Chipmunk: From first sighting in May until a feral cat got the little guy last week of August, the summer of 2015 gifted guests the magic of a connection to this red eyed creature. (He seemed to have a burrow under Cabin #14 and was fed by…

(submitted by Kim Bowen to CMR Resorter Reporter, a state-wide resort magazine published spring 2016) I've been doing a little research this year on Minnesota's resorts. I wondered "When was the 'hey-day' of Mom & Pop family/fishing vacation resorts in our state of 10,000 lakes?" Was it 1946, just after World War II, when suburbs…

(Video attached)  Ryan having fun watching wild turkeys run round and round for no discernible reason.  The fun never ends at CWC . . .

OLE & LENA JOKE of the day: Ole wore both of his winter jackets when he painted his house last July. The directions on the can said "put on two coats." 2016 is off and running for us at the resort up north. We hope this note finds you healthy and happy wherever you are.…

Northwoods Joke: The Roof (Am certain Bubba Kris did not follow the below example when constructing those new deck roofs on #14 or #16 last year. Or if he did, I didn't notice.) Sven and Ole are up fixing the roof. Sven picks up a nail, looks at it, and throws it away. He picks…