Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: The colors are getting brighter and brighter. This weekend may be close to peak. I have 3 cabins open with 2 night minimums. We are offering specials on Muskie and Holiday for smaller groups at 180/night Fri and Sat and 165/night mid week. Great cabins for a large or small group. They will be 245/night up to 6 or... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful day in the northwoods and time to head down a trail and quit working We headed down the Bearskin for a quick tour of the bridges Mack along for a jaunt away to work off the bacon someone made for him this morning Mack's comment "I am enjoying the view and I did not mention... Read more

Excerpt: It is a beautiful time of year to be at the resort The sugar maples are popping colors here and there and the pine needles have started falling as well. Many more colors to come in the next 2 weeks This nice small muskie was caught and released this weekend by Jon Balun. His 2nd muskie ever and he... Read more

Excerpt: It was a misty morning. Enjoy these pics by the lake ... Read more

Excerpt: The road to the resort is about to become very colorful. Everything seems ready to pop The maple trees are getting a little head start in some areas Here and there you see the maples I spent an afternoon at the office in the sun this weekend working on this old Legare 47 sock machine getting it running like... Read more

Excerpt: Fall has arrived and everyone slows down just a little more and takes a little more time to enjoy the Northwoods before it gets too cold We had a few school skippers up enjoying time to grandma and grandpa at the lake fishing and playing pinball. Catching muskies and having a pinball tournament are golden moments for Samuel and... Read more

Excerpt: All roads Labor Day Weekend end here We had lots of nice fish caught this week. Kim Taylor got this nice bass Her son landed this lunker that was released back into the lake The Voight family was all smiles with Adam and Samuel landing their first 32 inch muskie with their dad Roy and Grandpa Horst. This muskie... Read more

Excerpt: It has been a cooler and wetter week than normal. Our folks this week keep asking me, is it usually this cool late in August. 70's and 80's are normal. mid 60's with lows in 40's has stopped most of the swimming and had everyone enjoying campfires when ever the skies have cleared Little Sophie was happy to get... Read more

Excerpt: Summer has been sliding by and in our final week of summer brought some great fairy house building. Terri and her grand daughter Olive spent the week thinking hard one what to make and where. They finally settled on the old playground grill Here is a close up of their fairy house. Inside it is a fairy baby sleeping... Read more

Excerpt: It was a relaxing week at the resort. Great for paddle boating We even got out for a ride around the lake.... It was relaxing on the way out but we always seem to have a reason for our jaunts on to the lake.. This one was to rescue the pontoon boat. Everyone happily made it back to shore... Read more

Excerpt: We took an adventure with our neighbor Kim Flower. Kim wanted to go someplace new for a fish fry. I said some place with more than beer battered cod and interesting... Kim found it. The GPS did not though and took us down a dirt road at first until it straightened itself out Back on the correct road with... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful morning at the lake. The lake mists and sun coming out Always gotta take a raft pic Water tramp in the mist is fun too but the raft is just more photogenic It was a happy day at the lake as the boat lift for the red boat arrived. The red boat was sunk a... Read more