By bct | November 6, 2007
Recipes from Barbara’s Kitchen at the Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B are in Midwest Living Magazine’s December issue. Featured are breakfast favorites at the Guesthouse- Finnish Baked Pancakes and Maple-Baked Stuffed Pears. The author, Lisa Meyers McCuntick, stayed at the Guesthouse last winter while on a Gunflint Lodge to Lodge Ski adventure. >
By bct | November 3, 2007
Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B, which maintains and grooms northern Minnesota’s Banadad and Adjoining Ski Trail System announce that trail system will be manage as a carbon neutral trail beginning with the 2007-08 ski season. According to Ted Young, the b&b’s co-onwer, “we intend to purchase carbon credits to off-set the carbon contributed to the atmosphere [...]
The rainfall came and came and came during September. The total for September, recorded at Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B on Little Ollie Lake was 16 1/2 inches far exceeding the past ten year monthly average of three inches. The previous highest September rain was in 1998 when 5.2 inches was recorded. September 6-7 during a [...]
By bct | September 15, 2007
This Fall’s first frost arrived at Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B this morning. The temperature is hovering at 30 degrees. Yesterday the season’s first snow arrived. While it snowed quite heavy off and on during the day, none of the snow stayed on the ground. >
By bct | September 9, 2007
The Gunflint Trail long lasting drought was ended on Thursday, September 6 with 9.6 inches of rain recorded by Dave Clutter’s, Poplar Lake official weather recorder. In fact the month of September thus far has now recorded 12.7 inches of rain far exceeding the past ten year average for September of 2.92 inches. Thursday’s rain [...]
Noted University of Minnesota, forest fire researcher, Dr Lee Frelich to conduct a tour and to give a talk on the Gunflint’s Ham and Cavity Lake fires and the future of the burned over areas. The informative forest fire program is scheduled for; Sunday, August 26, 1:00 p.m., Gunflint Lodge Conference Center, where Dr Frelich [...]
Rooms still available at Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B during the Gunflint Trail’s exciting Canoe Races This year the Trail’s annual Canoe Races Event will be held Wednesday, July 18 on Gunflint Lake. The races are a major fund-raising event of the summer on the Gunflint Trail and help raise money to equip and train the [...]
Northeastern Minnesota’s Gunflint has little precipitation since late last summer. Then finally the rain began to fall near the end of last month, thankfully putting an end to the devastating Ham Lake Fire. Since the first of June 4.25 inches of rain has fallen in the mid Gunflint Trail area, with 2.70 inches falling on [...]
Precisely at 8:00 a.m. yesterday, with eighty or more Gunflint and Grand Marais residents looking on, Leanne Adams, president of the Seagull-Sag Lakes Home Owners Association cut the ribbon officially re-opening the last remain section of the Gunflint Trail following the containment of the Ham Lake Fire. Cheers went up as the first six cars [...]
The swans have been here for about a week. We have about 10 or 12 pair of white swans on the river and last week, I thought that I saw a pair of black swans. We had guests here that told me that they saw a pair on Saturday morning, so maybe I did see [...]
