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derance of those ersatz condo ghettoes sprouting up to make the local area look like a silly
copy of Vail.
If you show up unannounced during summer, you can likely nail down some accom-
modation, but you may be making lots of calls. During festivals, especially the Birkebeiner
ski race (in late Feb.), plan way ahead.
$50-100
The reliable
Riverside Motel
(Lake Hayward, 715/634-2661, $69-95) has a variety of
rooms—standard to upgraded knotty pine and some waterfront studios (with masseur baths
that give your body a reason to live), not to mention a few German-style cabins.
Dun Rovin Lodge
(Hwy. B, 715/462-3834,
www.dunrovinlodge.com
,
from $665
weekly rentals) is on the Chippewa Flowage. There's a taxidermy display, including the
flowage's world-record 70-pound muskie, and the flowage's aquatic life is displayed in
6,000-gallon tanks. Around 20 remodeled cabins are available, and there is a restaurant.
Over $150
“Resorts” intheHayward-Cable arearuntherangeofdustyoldcottagesthatlookasifthey
were built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps to sybaritic digs that look sus-
piciously like modified condos. Surprisingly, some places around these parts do not have a
high-season ban on one-night rentals, though on weekends that may change suddenly.
The Chippewa Flowage southeast of Hayward has the most lodging options in the area,
simplybecauseit'ssobig.Organizedandwith-it
Treeland Resort
(9630TreelandRd.,715/
462-3874,
www.treelandresort.com
, $115-360 daily, $750-2,300 weekly) dates from 1928
and today offers luxurious digs. A couple of dozen posh cedar-lined vacation homes and
newer motel suites make up the lodging options.
In the Chequamegon National Forest is
Lost Land Lake Lodge
(9436 W. Brandt Rd.,
715/462-3218,
www.lostlandlakelodge.com
,
$750-1,300 weekly), another old-timer (from
1922) offering one- to three-bedroom well-kept cabins on spacious, isolated grounds. The
restaurant here is quite good also.
In the same conglomeration of lakes you'll find the excellent (though pricey)
M
Ross'
Teal Lake Lodge
(WIS 77, 715/462-3631,
www.tealwing.com
, $220-680 nightly, also
weekly rentals), an old-style lodge from the mid-1920s that started as little more than a
fishing camp. (The family's been in the business so long they once housed Abe Lincoln.)
Twodozenone-tofour-bedroomcottages areavailable, allwithacoolscreenedporch.The
lodgehasbecomefairlywellknownforitsnewgolfpackages(thecourseishighlyratedby
