The Story of Northland Lodge and the Quiet Lakes
The story of Northland Lodge begins in the late 1800s when the Northwoods looked very different. Loggers harvested towering white pines around Lost Land Lake, cutting, branding and floating the logs through Teal Lake, down the Teal River and eventually all the way to the Mississippi.
One piece of that history still stands today. The Paymaster’s Cabin, located at Northland Lodge, has watched over the shoreline for more than a century.
In those early days the forests were nearly stripped bare. Green Point earned its name as the only patch of green left on Lost Land Lake after the logging era.
Family stories from those years still make their way around the lodge. Great Grandpa Young once sold motor gas to gangsters traveling to their clubhouse on Green Point. During one sudden storm on the lake, Grandma Dorothea found herself caught in rough weather and was reluctantly allowed to wait it out on the gangsters’ clubhouse porch.
The forests did not stay bare for long. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established Civilian Conservation Corps camps in the area to replant the ravaged woods. Those efforts helped restore the landscape and led to the creation of the Chequamegon National Forest that surrounds the lakes today.
Then in 1962, something happened that would shape the lakes forever. A 10 mph speed limit was adopted on Lost Land Lake and Teal Lake. The result was a quieter, more peaceful place where wildlife flourishes and families can enjoy the water at a slower pace.Today visitors know this special place simply as the Quiet Lakes.
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Family Vacation Resort & Lakeside Log Cabin Lodging on the Quiet Lakes in Northern Wisconsin
NORTHLAND LODGE is just the right size. We’re large enough to offer vacation rental lakeside log homes spaced for privacy or an escape on our private nature trail. We have facilities and activities for the entire family and a full, friendly staff to serve you. But we’re small enough to know and enjoy our guests, offer personalized service, and delight in continually enhancing our family resort for our guests who return year after year to their Northland vacation home.
Your Hosts: The Thearin Family
9181 West Brandt Road
Hayward, WI 54843
Phone: 715-462-3379
E-mail: northlandlodge@centurytel.net
ESCAPE to the beautiful northwoods of Hayward, Wisconsin.
FISH the peaceful waters of Lost Land and Teal Lake.
EXPERIENCE a family vacation in a country-decorated log cabin overlooking the Quiet Lakes in the Chequamegon National Forest.