Bits about Brookside
Just can’t get enough Brookside? Follow along with our blog to learn everything from the best bike trail in our area to the secret recipe behind our famous Bait Sundae.
We Went on a Family Vacation: All You Got Was Kitchen Shears
The Wallenberg and Keller families are right in the middle of developing our family vacation traditions. Really, we’re our own target market….except for that whole NO free time in the summer. So, what do you do when summer vacations are out? You head to Florida [...]
It’s Winter….but we are (Always) Thinking Summer
It’s cold. And snowy. And the sun sets at 5:11 pm up north these days. So there is nothing we like to do more than look through some of [...]
Birthday Sunsets
My word for year #34: Create
The Night We All Became Peacemakers
Summer 2017 wrapped up a few weeks ago and it was all the usual fun you expect from a summer at Brookside….plus one tiny little out of the ordinary thing that we need to tell you all about. And that was the night we all [...]
The Summer Vacation You Have Been Looking For: A “Mom and Pop” Resort
Have you ever heard of a “Mom and Pop resort”? Well, that is one of our favorite terms to throw around in the resorting biz. It means that – literally - Mom and Pop are the ones who are running the joint. In this very [...]
A Summer in the Life of a Brookside Lodge Lady….
After 4 years of cones, malts, and sundaes, this Lodge Lady is taking a hiatus from her spot behind the snack bar. And as summer rolls around and I think about all of my summers at this special spot up north, I think you all [...]