Travel Reference
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Brewpubs
Find excellent beer (oatmeal stout) and bistro pub grub at
Angry Minnow
(10440 Florida
Ave.,715/934-3055),arestaurantandbrewerythatseriouslyhassomewonderfulfood.The
wait time can be glacial.
Wine Bars
A group of chi-chi shops and a wine cave are tucked inside the fun
Pavilion Wine Bar
(10551 Main St., 715/634-6035 or 715/634-3923), with a tapas menu, wine (naturally), and
live entertainment from a precarious ledge (no joke) high above the action. One of the co-
owners is a longtime Wisconsin musician. It's great fun.
The
Hayward Visitors Information Center
(U.S. 63/WIS 27 junction, 715/634-8662 or
800/724-2992,
www.haywardlakes.com
)
is well stocked.
Northern Wisconsin Travel
(715/634-5307,
www.nwtexpressshuttle.com
)
operates bus
shuttles to and from Minneapolis's airport, serving Spooner and Rice Lake en route.
Driving to Hayward from Ashland (via U.S. 63, 57 miles) takes one hour. From Min-
neapolis (via U.S. 8 and U.S. 63, 138 miles), it takes two hours and 40 minutes. From
Madison (via I-94 and U.S. 53, 238 miles), it takes 4.5 hours.
Driving in Hayward is easy; it's essentially one long street.
Southeast of Hayward and sandwiched between two lakes and the Chippewa Flowage,
the
Lac Courte Oreilles
(“Lake of the Short Ears”—and it's “lah-koo-duh-RAY”) Indian
Reservation (tribal office 715/634-8934,
www.lco-nsn.gov
)
is a 31,000-acre federal trust
reservation,hometotheLacCourteOreillesBandofLakeSuperiorChippewa,whoarrived
at these lakes sometime in the mid-18th century. But the area's human occupation dates
backmuchfurther—morethan7,000years.TheNorthWestCompanyestablishedatrading
post on a nearby lake in 1800; treaties with the federal government were finally signed in
1825, 1837, and 1842, which permanently placed the band here. With a tribal membership
of 5,000, the population on the reservation itself is around 3,000. The reservation's loca-
tion adjacent to the Chequamegon National Forest, the expansive Chippewa Flowage, and
