Hiawatha Forest Lakes Lodgings

TIMBER RIDGE LODGE
(906) 387-3790
Snowmobilers have discovered this wonderful, wooded getaway 10 minutes from Munising. A motel/lodge has nine newish two-room housekeeping suites (starting at $49/night for one person, $5/extra person year-round). Each suite has an ample individual deck that seems to hang in the treetops looking down at Hovey Lake. They are very good deals, made possible because Mike Nolan and Terry Nolan, co-owners with their wives, are builders. Jan and Mary Sue Nolan are well informed about area recreational opportunities, including birding. Kitchens include microwaves and coffeemakers. Each unit has a TV (2 channels), queen bed, and queen sofa sleeper in the living room. Suites sleep four; there are extra cots for more kids. A phone is in the office. No air-conditioning. Stairs ---56 of them --- go down to the lake and dock. Guests have free use of rowboat, paddle boat. There's a sauna, rec room with pool table, and heated garage for snowmobile repairs. A four-bedroom rental lodge is on the lake. Call well ahead for winter weekends (some guests reserve a year ahead) and summer. The lodge would be beautiful in fall color season.

CAMEL RIDER'S RESORT
(906) 573-2319
Four widely spaced hillside cottages among the trees overlook Deep Lake, an all-sports lake that's part of a chain of lakes. All have TV (two channels), microwaves, fire pits. Each cottage comes with a boat. Cottages sleep from four to eight and rent by the week in summer, by the weekend otherwise. The beach, playground, outdoor sitting area, and dock are reached by stairs. There's a fish-cleaning station. Rentals range from $400 to $600 a week or $80 to $160 a day in summer to $570/week.

HIAWATHA RESORT AND CAMPGROUND
(906) 573-2933
Six housekeeping cottages are on 12 acres with big trees and paths through woods. The nearby Indian River offers good canoeing. (Shallow Blue Lake is too marshy for fishing and swimming, but good for watching waterfowl.) The resort offers boat and canoe rentals, a fish-cleaning station, horseshoe pits, and a heated workspace for snowmobile repairs. Nature-loving owners Pat and Myra Skorupski are good sources of advice on the area's recreational possibilities. Cottages, rented by the night, sleep from four to eight. Rates go by the person. For two people they would be $55 to $65, with $8 per extra person. The roadside campground has little privacy between sites, but it does have a shower/laundry building and complete hookups ($14/night) at five sites. Eight tent sites are $12/night. Smoking permitted.

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