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NOTE: This is a reprint of a Mlive.com article published on April 6, 2016. WALLOON LAKE, MI — Childhood summers spent fishing and swimming in a pristine Northern Michigan lake would later imbue Ernest Hemingway’s “The Last Good Country.” The newly opened Hotel Walloon is borrowing that reference for the name of an upcoming weekend […]

Spring Newsletter from the General Manager Living in Michigan we all understand winter and most of us love it (that’s why we live here).  But when winter is at its end and warmer weather is right around the corner we now have a new love and it’s called Spring. The Short Story of How Walloon […]

NOTE: This is a reprint of a New York Times Travel Section article published on March 4, 2016. IN MICHIGAN, A HEMINGWAY CELEBRATION The 32-room Hotel Walloon, on Walloon Lake in northern Michigan where Ernest Hemingway spent many boyhood summers, is offering a three-day special event in tribute to the writer. Called “The Last Good Country,” […]

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View Online Vintage Elegance, Northern Atmosphere, Unlimited Adventure SEASON’S GREETINGS! Ninetieth Century author John Ruskin once said “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” Although it is safe to say that as an Englishman, […]

NOTE: This is a reprint of an MLIVE article published on July 6, 2015.   WALLOON LAKE, MI — Just a few years ago, the outlook was bleak for the once-bustling northern Michigan resort community of Walloon Lake. The recession, years of neglect, a court battle over the village lakefront and a private stranglehold on […]