This summer I purchased the gas station - mechanic shop on the corner of m28 and m94/h15.
My business partner Al also owns the Tanglewood next door. We are looking to convert the location in to lodging.
We will be cutting it close for this winter. We are just finishing up the environmental assessments. 20k in fees so far to tell us what we already know.
This location was a gas station since 1930. I have aerial pictures of the town going back that far and ever ten yours to current. Pretty cool seeing how this area has transformed over time.
We have the property cleaned up. No more piles of broken down cars and junk piled every where. Fences are coming down between this property and the Tanglewood. This will make travel to the Arctic Cat dealer much easier from trail 8. This was a horrible eye sore for the area.
Debating if we should go with many smaller rooms or convert the offices in to a big lodge where large groups could stay together and use the unheated workshop space to party and park sleds.
The location is ideal being next to a bar - restaurant - gas on one side and an Arctic Cat dealer on the other.
Another Shingleton change is Alger SORVA has moved to the old iverson snow shoe mill property. Just south of the railroad tracks on m94 there is a street (Mill St.). The building is East at the end of the road.
This summer we made this move. No more tent in wetmore. We sold that to the land owner we were renting from. Having an insulated, heated building with concrete floors, life should be easier.
I have been out grading the trails over the last Month when we got the tractor fixed up. Of course mother nature has not been cooperating. No rain for a Month before we got rolling. Now it seems rain every other day. So it has been slowing efforts down. Currently I am working on trail 7 south. (buckhorn area) Hope to get west to xmas and autrain - brownstone in next couple of weeks.
Flat Dirt = Flat Snow
Hope you all have enjoyed the summer. The weather is changing here already. Trees starting to change colors. Fall is in the air. Before you know it winter will be here in full force.
Think Snow.....
My business partner Al also owns the Tanglewood next door. We are looking to convert the location in to lodging.
We will be cutting it close for this winter. We are just finishing up the environmental assessments. 20k in fees so far to tell us what we already know.
This location was a gas station since 1930. I have aerial pictures of the town going back that far and ever ten yours to current. Pretty cool seeing how this area has transformed over time.
We have the property cleaned up. No more piles of broken down cars and junk piled every where. Fences are coming down between this property and the Tanglewood. This will make travel to the Arctic Cat dealer much easier from trail 8. This was a horrible eye sore for the area.
Debating if we should go with many smaller rooms or convert the offices in to a big lodge where large groups could stay together and use the unheated workshop space to party and park sleds.
The location is ideal being next to a bar - restaurant - gas on one side and an Arctic Cat dealer on the other.
Another Shingleton change is Alger SORVA has moved to the old iverson snow shoe mill property. Just south of the railroad tracks on m94 there is a street (Mill St.). The building is East at the end of the road.
This summer we made this move. No more tent in wetmore. We sold that to the land owner we were renting from. Having an insulated, heated building with concrete floors, life should be easier.
I have been out grading the trails over the last Month when we got the tractor fixed up. Of course mother nature has not been cooperating. No rain for a Month before we got rolling. Now it seems rain every other day. So it has been slowing efforts down. Currently I am working on trail 7 south. (buckhorn area) Hope to get west to xmas and autrain - brownstone in next couple of weeks.
Flat Dirt = Flat Snow
Hope you all have enjoyed the summer. The weather is changing here already. Trees starting to change colors. Fall is in the air. Before you know it winter will be here in full force.
Think Snow.....
