North Star Camp

North Star Camp was located on the north tip of Portage Bay on Leech Lake.  It is closest to Bena and Federal Dam.

I have been to the site before, it is really beautiful and had a great beach.  I have had some other posts from people wondering about North Star Camp.  One post thought it was on Lake Winnibigoshish.  I'm not sure if there was a North Star Camp on Winnie or on Cass, but there was one on Leech!

Beautiful pictures.  Looks like it was a nice place.  I hope to hear from any of you that may have stayed there or near there.

Island Motel and Resort on Shingobee Island

Hello!  It has been a while since I posted.  I'll try to do better!

This is an interesting place.  The building is still standing and in use on Shingobee Island.  It looks really neat!  The back side sits right on the lake, almost overhanging over the lake. 

I don't know if there are many of you out there that stayed there, but if you still go to the lake, you can drive by it!

Bayside Resort

Bayside is an old resort that is still operating today.  It is on Agency Bay and here is it's website.

http://www.baysideleechlake.com/

I have often driven by on the lake and looked at this resort.  It is a really nice looking, very clean resort.  The yellow cabins look great!

I have a few older pictures from postcards that I have bought, including the back side of an old postcard when it was Heinie's Bayside Resort.  A postcard from another era(1955), it says write for reservations!

From the late 1950's early 60's Chamber of Commerce map:

Agency Bay.  8 houskeeping cabins.  Modern.  Supplies.  Surfaced road.  LeRoy and Martha Vang.  Tel. KI 7-1350. Walker, MN.

I would love to hear your stories from the Bayside Resort!

Sugar Point Resort and Herman's Resort

I have been to Sugar Point Resort a couple of different times just to cruise through and check it out.  It has been a few years ago and the resort has changed hands since the last time I was there.  I remember that it is a beautiful piece of property on the east side of Leech and they have a lot of great cabins.

I emailed the current owners, Christie and Jamie and Christie responded with a little bit of information about the resort:

"Sugar Point Resort was once comprised of 2 resorts,  one of them being Herman's Resort. The owners were Herman and Florence Storhaug. 

There is certainly a lot of history in our neck of the woods!

We took over in 2015. The previous owners were here 34 years. They are going to put together some resort history to share with us."

Thanks for that Christie.  I thought I would post the following information for Sugar Point.

The address and website for Sugar Point Resort is:

10125 Sugar Point Dr. NW
Federal Dam, MN 56641

http://sugarpoint.com/

I'm looking forward to hearing more from Christie and Jamie.  

From the late 1950's early 60's Chamber of Commerce map for Herman's Resort.  There were no listings for Sugar Point Resort:

Herman's Resort - On beautiful Sugar Point.  Sheltered harbors, launch, guide, fish filleting, freezer, groceries, snack bar, TV.  Cement ramp, motors, bait, gas, tackle, playground, swimming.  Herman and Florence Storhaug, Federal Dam, Minn.  Tel. 645-3155.

Doc's Lodge

It's postcards say JUST A GOOD SPOT!  It certainly was!

It was located on a beautiful piece of property on Stony Point.  I think it was closed in the last 10-15 years.  When my kids were little, we used to camp at the Stony Point campground.  We would stop at Doc's Lodge for things occasionally.  I really thought it was JUST A GOOD SPOT!

I have seen it on lake maps dating from the 40's.  It was a really beautiful place!  I'm sure it has a very interesting history!  I would love to know more about it.  Your stories are always welcome.

I posted this in the comment section, but thought I would update the actual post in case someone looked at this.  

I read a story by Otto Ringle in the Walker Pilot-Indepentent about Doc's Lodge. You HAVE to read this article. It is called Doc's Lodge because it was started and ran by Doc Christenson from Albert City, Iowa. It is an amazing story.

A quote from Otto's article: "Most dentists would wait until they retired to fulfill that dream, but not Doc Christenson. He was the only dentist in the small town of Albert City, so he was able to leave his practice for six months during the year and schedule his appointments accordingly. Dentists from neighboring towns took care of his emergencies when he was gone during the summer months, and his patients still returned to him when he came back to his office in the fall. Therefore, his dream came true when he was only 45 years old."

Please read this and if you love Leech Lake and Walker, you should subscribe to to the the Walker Pilot-Independent. It keeps you up on the interesting things going on up "at the lake"

http://www.walkermn.com/news/the-old-and-the-new/article_99c74e7e-93f9-11e8-ba4a-ebbf88387097.html

From the late 1950's early 60's Chamber of Commerce map:

Doc's Lodge - Strictly modern, including showers.  Eighteen and twenty-foot boats every size motor.  Beach, launching facilities.  Everything for the Discriminating Fisherman and Vacationist.  Dr. and Mrs O.A. Christenson,  Tel. KI 7-1772.  Walker, MN

Pine Point Resort

Pine Point resort has one of those old beautiful lodges that made us go ah!  It had over 25 cabins at one point.   It was a beautiful large old resort on one of the prime fishing areas on Leech Lake.

This old resort is now called the Shores at Pine Point.  The BEAUTIFUL old lodge is still up and is available to be rented according their website.  There are two other cabins that appear to be older cabins from the resort and are rented by the season.  There are two other newer ones that are available to rent as well.  The majority of the old resort area is now occupied with mobile homes.  It is still a beautiful area.

The resort has been operating since at least the 40's by my weak research looking at the old maps of the lake with the Resorts on it.  Most likely it could have dated back to the 30's.

Some old postcards of Pine Point.  My favorite of all of them is the last one with the people walking around the resort.  That looks like it was probably from the 40's? I'm guessing.  I always wondered about the dad/grandpa walking with the small child, the other people in the picture, what were their stories.  Great stuff.

It has been around for decades, I don't know a whole lot of the history of the resort.  Any stories would be appreciated!

From the late 1950's early 60's Chamber of Commerce map:

Pine Point Resort -- Modern housekeeping cabins.  Exceptional fishing, meals on reservation, walk-in cooler, freezer, boats, beach, waterskiing, complete playground.  Boat launching, launch service, convention catering.  "The Andersons"  Tel. KI 7-1024

Shady Knolls Resort

Shady Knolls was located just a little bit south of Walker on Walker Bay.  It operated as a resort through the 2000's I believe.  It has been sold off in parts.  The part south of the harbor is private and the area north of the harbor is still intact with some of the old cabins there.  I'm not sure of the ownership of that part.

There are a couple of beautiful old log cabins, and some bigger ones still there.  It is a beautiful piece of land, and a great harbor.

One of the things that I found interesting about Shady Knolls is that the railroad tracks ran right by the beach area and the side of the resort.  I'm sure it got noisy sometimes!

It certainly was a cool looking place.  I'm sure many memories were made by a lot of families through the years.

From the late 1950's early 60's Chamber of Commerce map:

Shady Knolls - Leech Lake.  Two miles south of Walker, Highway 371.  Family Resort, cozy cabins, central showers, clean grounds, safe beach, ramp, boat harbor.  Minerva Dahl.  Tel. KI 7-1334.

I'd love to hear your stories.