Spend Your
Vacation Floating
the Mississippi!
Photo by Linnerooth family
how we grew up, looking forward all year long
to a week’s vacation,” he said. “But now camping
spaces rent by the season. Tents are pretty much
a thing of the past, too. We probably have only a
dozen all summer.”
Some of the seasonal guests at Breeze
Campgrounds have been coming there since
before Echtenkamp became the owner, he said,
adding that one of his guests, a farmer, has been
a regular for 30 years.
Over 120 acres
of solitude
along the upper
Mississippi
• Cabins
• Houseboat
• Seasonal RVs
• Boating/Fishing
• Activities
12241 Stallman Road • Brainerd, MN
(218) 829-4587 • 800-416-4587
www.ruggedriverresort.com
email: [email protected]
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Photo by Kent Robbins
GRETCHEN HEATH, Plymouth
Gretchen Heath grew up as an only child who
spent considerable time with her parents on
Minnesota’s North Shore.
“The North Shore has been my spiritual home
forever,” Heath said. “It started with my parents
and evolved.’
Heath recalls her family starting out at Johnson’s
Cabins near Beaver Bay, then moving to Castle
Danger, 11 miles north of Two Harbors. “Edisen’s
Campers Home had a grocery with restaurant
and gas pumps nearby,” Heath said. “It was
the original cabin resort run by Norwegian
immigrants.”
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She remembers her family buying fish at the
Sves’ cabin resort. “They are a legendary family
on the Shore and still run the resort,” Heath said.
“It is like going back in time. Their clientele is
fourth generation. Every cabin has a guest book,
and you can read about people coming back
who started as young children, just as I did at the
other resort.”
A place to make
lasting memories
Since 1997, Heath has spent July and August
every year at a house south of the Knife River,
originally called the Bon Aire Tea Room.
“It is really like connecting with the past, and it
is all you need,” Heath said. “It is a lovely retreat
experience. It is something one gets used to. It
sticks in one’s psyche.
Since 1946
Hwy. 371 N. Nisswa, MN
800-322-3525
www.nisswadock.com
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