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Lanesboro B&B Summer Getaway

By marvineggert | June 23, 2009

Hillcrest Hide-Away Bed and Breakfast in Lanesboro invites you to a summer getaway.  The weather is warm, the river is cool, the bike trail is shaded, and the ice cream shop is ready with refreshments.  The downtown district is on the National Register of Historic buildings and is filled with interesting shops and restaurants .  [...]

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Lanesboro B&B Mid-week getaway

By marvineggert | May 22, 2009

Hillcrest Hide-Away B&B in Lanesboro invites you to a mid-week summer getaway.  Stay with us for 2 nights with one of the nights being Tuesday – Thursday and receive $25 off the cost of your stay.  Immerse yourself in the tranquil setting of our spacious 3,500 sq. ft. Craftsman Home.  Surrounded by 80 year old Spruce [...]

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Spring Snow on Gunflint no April Fools Joke

By bct | April 2, 2009

April Fools Day brought 12 – 14 inches of heavy wet snow to the Gunflint Trail’s Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and along the Banadad Ski Trail. On the morning of the first with guests planning to leave for home the roads and driveways into the B&B’s two rental cabins had to be cleared. Plowing began [...]

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Lanesboro Candlelight Ski

By marvineggert | January 2, 2009

Lanesboro’s Hillcrest Hide-Away B&B invites you to enjoy our winter wonderland in Southeast Minnesota.  The Root River State trail has a fresh blanket of snow and is groomed and ready for cross country skiing.  Click here for current ski conditions.    Make plans now to join us for the Candlelight Ski and Bonfire on Saturday [...]

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Lanesboro B&B Winter Ski Getaway

By marvineggert | December 19, 2008

Imagine – the smell of home made bread baking when you awake. Imagine – curling up to a good book next to a fireplace. Enjoy a hearty breakfast (that you don’t have to make or clean up) and then head out on miles of groomed cross country ski trails surrounded by the bluffs of the [...]

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The Cross-Country Ski Seasons Opens on the Gunflint Trail

By bct | December 15, 2008

Grand Marais, MN- The cross-country skiing season has begun along Minnesota’s famed Gunflint Trail as the snow piles up- over nine new inches of snow fell yesterday. More is expected this week. With yesterday snowfall, area B&B and lodge owners along the Gunflint report eighteen to twenty inches of snow now on the ground. Beginning [...]

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Opening the Banadad Ski Trail

By bct | October 30, 2008

According to Ted Young co-owner of Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and Banadad Trail Coordinator, “opening the 39.8 kilometers of the Banadad Ski Trail System is no easy undertaking. Twenty-seven Kilometers of the trail system are located within the BWCA where only hand tools can be used to cut the summers accumulation of brush and down [...]

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