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September News

The great weather and a full resort continued through the first few weeks of August. As with most years the early school starts and fall sports curtailed many family vacations. Some of the unusual weather this summer had also continued through the month. There were a few days of really strong south winds and some […]

August News

Did July fly by with the blink of an eye or what?!? There has been a tremendous amount of activity around town and at the resort this past month. Once again the Forth of July Celebration was spectacular, the Blueberry Arts Fest was a huge success and it was great to see the lights on […]

July News

We have had a great start to the summer. Pretty warm temps and a decent amount of sun and rain mixed in there too which have kept fire danger to low or moderate so far. It is hard to believe it will be the 4th of July in just three days. The summers seem to […]

June News

                                              Not a cloud in the sky on this beautiful Memorial Day!!   Everything is shaping up around the resort. Most of the cabin projects are pretty much done and ready to go. […]

May News

It is that time of year again when we catch ourselves coming and going. Remodeling cabins, cleaning cabins  and getting the grounds in shape. As usual we have multiple projects going around the resort. Cabin 13 is coming along nicely. Look out for new pictures on our Facebook page.  At least this year we are […]

April News

Well you never know what your going to get as far as the weather goes in Ely. This month we have experienced highs in upper 50’s and 10″ of new snow. The snow didn’t stay long but made a sloppy mess of things. It also delayed ice out by a couple of weeks. We have […]

March News

  Just one of many amazing snow sculptures at this years Snow Sculpture Symposium in Whiteside Park.   This past month has been pretty eventful with many different things going on. The unusually warm weather for this time of year made walking around the Snow Sculpture Symposium enjoyable. It did however cause the sculptures to […]

February News

Well it has been unseasonably warm for this time of year with daytime temps reaching above freezing. We are not complaining as it has been a great time to get outside and enjoy all that Ely has to offer this time of year. As you may have already noticed we have a new addition to […]

January News

It is January 1st and we hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday season. We were home for all of December enjoying the unseasonable warm weather. In our 21 winters this has been the warmest ever. There were only a couple of nights that approached  the below zero mark. I am just hoping we […]

December News from WIBR

Finally a smooth skim of ice over White Iron Lake.     We hope everyone enjoyed the first leg of this holiday season marathon. We traveled to Illinois, like we do most years, spreading our time there between our families. We also had a 90th birthday celebration for my (Kerry’s) mom who will turn 90 […]