Up North - Northern Wisconsin Lakes, Cabins, Camping, and More

Heading "north" for the weekend is a part of the culture of living in the Chippewa Valley. Whether your relatives share a cabin, you're renting an RV for the summer, or you're simply setting up a tent, enjoying the great outdoors in the thick of the northwoods is one of the many unique opportunities we have available to us. This special section celebrates northwoods living, and spending some quality time in the woods and water of up north.

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Time Traveling: 5 turn-of-the century lodges and resorts in the northwoods

Want to visit a timeless getaway with your loved ones? The renowned Wisconsin lodges and resorts listed below have been flourishing for the past century and continue to expand alongside their growing ...

Get Off the Grid: Minnesota start-up rents out tiny vacation house in Fall Creek

In Fall Creek, there’s a 64-square-foot window facing out into five acres of private woods. From the queen-sized bed, one can watch nature go about its business as squirrels, rabbits, birds, and the occasional deer meander past Off-Grid Tiny House ...

Memories Made in the North

‘Up North’ is as much a state of being as it is a part of our state

If you created a word cloud based around the Northwoods, it would be full of tangible nouns – water, forest, sky, campfire, cabin. It would also be peppered with less concrete vocabulary as well ...

5 Cabins for Your Escape to the Lake

cool family cabins in Northern Wisconsin

For adults, vacations to the lake promise relaxation – a chance to leave work behind, let the kids run free, and get back to who you are without all the hustle and bustle. For kids, it means ...

Raised by the Northwoods

the path between childhood and adulthood passes through the family cabin

Last September, as the sunset washed over me on a weathered dock whose cracks and folds I know like those on the bottom of my heels, I considered the notion that the Northwoods helped raise me ...

Onward to Hayward: Musky Fest celebrates northern Wisconsin’s fishing culture

Something’s especially fishy in Hayward every June during the annual Musky Festival. This nearly 70-year-old tradition celebrates Wisconsin’s Northwoods and its love affair with fishing each year with music ...

Free Fishing and Free Admission to State Parks and Trails Among June 2-3 Offerings

Free Fun Weekend is June 2 and 3 in Wisconsin, so save the date and get ready to get outdoors.On those two days, Wisconsin residents and visitors will be able to fish for free, hike or bike state trails for free ...

Timeless Northwoods Memories

for those who’ve been there, ‘Up North’ is as much a place as a state of mind

“I grew up swimming in the lakes of northwestern Wisconsin, in the lakes up around my family’s little cabin near a town called Webster. We’d drive up north on a Friday evening, unpack the car, and after enough begging/pleading/crying, my dad would take us down to the beach at Devil’s Lake ..."