Coffee at Camp (in two acts)AKA:Research for something special weve been working on – launching this summer We did a little The 15 cup challengeAKA:15 days15 ways 15 spots around camp>> serving up a carousel this morning of 120 seconds of fueling up >> honestly we just ran out of time to get the other spots around camp where get & make their cup of Joe. But a solid try.I realized two key things :1. Im a hoarder of coffee pots.2. Im not sorry (Fighting the urge to expand the offerings) Ideas welcome.Love these research days
I think we have our weekend plans set nowChop your own wood and it will warm you twice. – Henry Ford …Tales from the woodshed, shared by : @saracovey @bekawriedt @bestmadeco bestmadeco …#wandawega #wandawegawoodshed #wisconsintourism #travelwisconsin #camping #campstyle
The seasons first group came for the early spring hikes, yoga, and soaked up some wisco wilderness – looking forward to having them back this fall for their the big takeover retreat. Deets at @homecomingretreats
Spring cleaning in the camp store.If these walls could talktheyd never shut up.A lot of things go down over the course of a century in old mom & pop remote Wisco resorts like this.Every once in a while we find clues- (most recently, a new stash of newspaper articles about the owners during prohibition) Weve been working on something to tell the whole story, we’ll be sharing soon. .Photos by @cshimala and @sdamiani ..#wisconsintourism #prohibition #rathskellar #wisconsintourism
Weekend vibes Reporting from #WandawegaHillhouse & the bunk house.Making our find out what winter broke and fix it spring rounds .Shared by @sdamiani #wisconsintravel #wisconsintourism #camplife #campvibes
The field house.Built for explorers. Modeled after the national park ranger stations and Scout camp nature stands. Its jam packed with everything to guide guests as they explore the outdoors. So, the snow has melted. And we now find ourselves taking stock of what was eaten by all the woodland creatures over the winter.Turns out, they like to eat textiles. AndMother Nature likes to warp anything thats thinner than a clipboard. Otherwise, it weathered its first the wisco winter like a champ.Now we restock for high season, when we welcome back guests of all walks of life- Inuding the furry sort who have been hoarding nuts in here like theyll never eat again. .Pics and clips @sdamiani @oolretaw .#travelwisconsin #campstyle #wisconsintourism #wandawega
Thinking this may be the last snow for us in 2022. It was a good season- but we are ready for spring around here.Out of semi-hibernation mode, were ready to start setting up camp again, starting next month.Tents, tipis, airstream, messhall, the camp fleet (and a couple new additions well be get to announce later in the season.)Cant wait. #wisconsinlife #wisconsin #wisconsintourism #wisconsinoutdoors #camplife
A PROMISE TO A HOUSE (and a lady we never got to meet)*Celebrating this woman like everyday is international womens dayThis is the story of the owner of the hillhouse. (Wrote this a few years ago when we finished the rehab & we started to move in)Dear House,Its been 90-plus years since someone moved into you for the very first time – a little fishing cabin on a tiny lake.3 years ago when we started your resurrection we tried to save as much of you as we could. But In the process, we found that too much was too far gone.We did manage to save some of your bones: your old creaky floors are still underneath the new ones. Your cellar staircase still lies beneath the shiny replacement. A piece of one of your old beams has become your new fireplace manteland the walls will be hung with the memory of one of your former owners (a Ziegfeld Girl-turned-LadyBoss-mom-of-four, Ruth Foster Froemming, who was the 1st woman to run for Mayor of Milwaukee). House, your wooden skeleton beneath your shiny new siding will keep us grounded – your foundation reminding us of nearly a century that you brought a warm spot to blue collar vacationers visiting a tiny Wisconsin lake.Today is the day you will be moved into again for the first time. The day you get your new lease on life. We are going to fill you with everything that we love, and share you with everyone that we love. We promise to extend your days long after ours are done – in hopes that another 90 years from now, you will still be serving your intended purpose. A little house by a little lake where people can do the exact same things generations before us have done here. Exhale. ( *we hope you like what weve done with the place Ruth * ). #wandawegahillhouse1&2 shots: @bobcoscarelli
A guest just shared this shot of our brass stamped key ring (its actually a machinists tag made for marking factory valves, that we just added to a ball chain) Its one of the tags on our DIY the campstore Keychain Bar. weve got a few more additions to the bar this coming year- (because there is nothing that we love more than making tiny things that harken back to another era)Thanks to @andyjkenney for the photo – hes a rad designer who also happens to own @hearthandhammer that we
