Patty, I am Stan Bormann, my aunt and uncle Alvera & Matt Bendel owned Whispering Pines resort during the period you talk about as you documented. My mother was Alvera’s sister and my parents built the red cabin just north of the resort. I had a green boat that I think I pulled some of the Wall family members on water skies. Perhaps taught some of them to ski. When the Walls were there was one of my favorite weeks to be at the cabin. It is great to hear from you. I hope you see this. At that time I would have known some of your cousins and siblings. I am a bit older than you. 85 now.
If you ever get up in this area, let us know. We would love to visit with you and share stories. We could do that while sitting on the shore of Lake Ada 🙂
Do you have any info or photos on PEG’S RESORT on Lake Belle Taine, Nevis MN. Our family went there in the early 1950’s. The cabins are still there, but the resort has a new name. There were abt a half dozen small, identical, white cabins, in a row with concrete sidewalk between and in front of them, with concrete steps leading down to the lake. I believe the cabins were knotty pine inside. Thanks.
In 2003 we purchased one of the 5 cabins that were a part of Spring Beach Resort. It had been moved south two lots west of the public access. We sold the cabin in 2011. Now 14 years later, it has been moved again down the shoreline south to the corner of the North Bay. The new owners added a basement, two bedrooms and a second bathroom. That said, it still retains the old cabin charm. In fact, now being snow birds we will be renting the cabin the balance of this year and then again in the summer of 2026 . We love reading and hearing the stories of Spring Beach resort. Prior to owning the cabin from Spring Beach resort we owned a cabin from the Old Point Comfort resort which is now a homeowners association. Lake Ada os a wonderful piece of Heaven.
Loved reading your story about your Spring Beach Resort cabin on Lake Ada. I have never been on the site that Spring Beach was on, although I have rowed up into the north bay many times. Old Point Comfort was the first resort we stayed at, on Lake Ada, and that was in 1951 when I was 6. I am now 80, and have not been up on Ada since the Invie family closed Ada Pine Beach, a few years ago. I don’t know of any other cabins to rent on the lake, except the Eagle’s Nest cabin on the east side of the lake, that was first owned by Bill Henslen (back in the day), and then Bandemer’s. I just wish there were some rental options so I could go back up there. Lake Ada is still my favorite place on earth — so many wonderful, happy memories during the 1950s and 1960’s, and then about 15 years of renting at Ada Pine Beach starting around the year 2000. It was a pleasure meeting you via your Lake Ada email. By the way, do you know if the Ada Pine Beach cabins and owners house have been razed or moved off the resort property? Enjoy your Lake Ada times and memories.
We own 2 of the original cabins where the boat launch was originally. We also still have the shuffle board but we have not yet restored it but would like to. The office/house was torn down a few years ago. It had a tree growing through it. The lot next to us had an original cabin but tore it down a few years back a built a new one similar to the old one. The people on the other side of us also still have 2 original cabins
Hello Patricia,
Sorry I just found your note from several years ago. Leroy Invie has passed away. Several of the cabins are gone. The ones left appear to hv been moved around.i believe the family still owns the land and cabins . The old lodge burned down several years ago and C was a replaced by a new home. We still spend our summers on Lake Ada. The loons, wildlife and surrounding forests make it va treasure. I do not know of any rentals currently available.
Be well,
Paul Scribner
last year was 1972 spring beach sold forrest and marie Bolton had three kids I was the baby. I am now 72 and live in Crosslake . JENNETT sisster 85 has lots of old pictures lives on hattie lake. brother steve lives in woodberry mn . them was the simple days no spam calls. dad lived to age 87 ma 84. we was known for joken round haveing partys. and fishing.
Hello Larry,
My wife and I formerly owned a cabin that was formerly a part of Spring Beach Resort. Slew sold it in 2011. Life went full circle for us. E are Florida Residents but rent / summer on lake Ada each summer. We are renting our old cabin. We are interested in learning more about the resort and the history of Spiring Beach Resort. Let me know if you would be available for a cup of coffee or to stop by and visit sometime. E would love to learn more.
Regards,
Paul Scribner
Hi. I don’t know if I can share some memories here — I will try. I spent the best summers of my life on the east shore of Lake Ada. Beginning when I was 6 in 1951, my family (mom, dad, and older sister) started going to Lake Ada one week every summer, starting at Old Point Comfort. where we were joined by one of my dad’s brothers and his family. We then moved on to 12 years at Whispering Pines, where several more uncles and aunts families joined us. Over the years the word spread in the family about the fun we were having at Lake Ada, and so many family members wanted to join us, and did join us. But Whispering Pines had only 5 cabins. Bill Henslen had a cabin right next to Whispering Pines so we grabbed that one every year also. We ended up in the later years with family groups at Dream of the North Woods, and Spring Beach — any place where a cabin was to be found and available during that certain week. It was the most amazing time of my life — having fun with my cousins, swimming, fishing, playing horse shoe and badminton, board games, and exploring beautiful Lake Ada. And owners Matt and Alvira Bendel would join in the fun with us. My last trips to Lake Ada were the many years I went to Ada Pine Beach where I got to know owners Pat, Leroy and Gene Invie. My last trip was 3 years ago. The last resort on Lake Ada is now closed. I am about to turn 80 soon, and these memories are as vivid as if I was there right now. The sun on the white caps, listening to the wind in the pines, grabbing the towels off the line when a storm was approaching, jumping into the lake and swimming out to the raft, long, slow walks on the road early in the morning where I would look for deer tracks, playing cards on the picnic table, and ending the day in the iron bed in my bed room in one of those little cabins. I would give anything in the world to go back to those days. Lake Ada will always be my HAPPY PLACE.
Do you have any early photos of Old Point Comfort, Whispering Pines, or Ada Pine Beach — all on Lake Ada. I am interested in all photos of Lake Ada and the area, but the three resorts that I named are the ones I have stayed at. Thanks. I am also interested in photos or info on George Lind Cottages, on the east side of Gull Lake in the 1950’s on Donaldson Road. I went to the Crow Wing County Museum, and they had never heard of this resort. I had a nice photo flyer of the resort, and they were surprised to see this, and they copied it for their files. Thanks. At some point I was told that George Lind was a doctor in Brainerd, built five cabins on Gull, one for each of his children, then years later made it into a resort. It is now gone, but the field stone wall along Donaldson Road where the resort once stood is still standing there.
Patty, I am Stan Bormann, my aunt and uncle Alvera & Matt Bendel owned Whispering Pines resort during the period you talk about as you documented. My mother was Alvera’s sister and my parents built the red cabin just north of the resort. I had a green boat that I think I pulled some of the Wall family members on water skies. Perhaps taught some of them to ski. When the Walls were there was one of my favorite weeks to be at the cabin. It is great to hear from you. I hope you see this. At that time I would have known some of your cousins and siblings. I am a bit older than you. 85 now.
Stan Bormann
If you ever get up in this area, let us know. We would love to visit with you and share stories. We could do that while sitting on the shore of Lake Ada 🙂
Do you have any info or photos on PEG’S RESORT on Lake Belle Taine, Nevis MN. Our family went there in the early 1950’s. The cabins are still there, but the resort has a new name. There were abt a half dozen small, identical, white cabins, in a row with concrete sidewalk between and in front of them, with concrete steps leading down to the lake. I believe the cabins were knotty pine inside. Thanks.
In 2003 we purchased one of the 5 cabins that were a part of Spring Beach Resort. It had been moved south two lots west of the public access. We sold the cabin in 2011. Now 14 years later, it has been moved again down the shoreline south to the corner of the North Bay. The new owners added a basement, two bedrooms and a second bathroom. That said, it still retains the old cabin charm. In fact, now being snow birds we will be renting the cabin the balance of this year and then again in the summer of 2026 . We love reading and hearing the stories of Spring Beach resort. Prior to owning the cabin from Spring Beach resort we owned a cabin from the Old Point Comfort resort which is now a homeowners association. Lake Ada os a wonderful piece of Heaven.
Loved reading your story about your Spring Beach Resort cabin on Lake Ada. I have never been on the site that Spring Beach was on, although I have rowed up into the north bay many times. Old Point Comfort was the first resort we stayed at, on Lake Ada, and that was in 1951 when I was 6. I am now 80, and have not been up on Ada since the Invie family closed Ada Pine Beach, a few years ago. I don’t know of any other cabins to rent on the lake, except the Eagle’s Nest cabin on the east side of the lake, that was first owned by Bill Henslen (back in the day), and then Bandemer’s. I just wish there were some rental options so I could go back up there. Lake Ada is still my favorite place on earth — so many wonderful, happy memories during the 1950s and 1960’s, and then about 15 years of renting at Ada Pine Beach starting around the year 2000. It was a pleasure meeting you via your Lake Ada email. By the way, do you know if the Ada Pine Beach cabins and owners house have been razed or moved off the resort property? Enjoy your Lake Ada times and memories.
Patty Wahl
We have an extra cabin on the lake across from the old Smith farm on 84. It isn’t the Taj Mahal, however the shoreline is superb.
We own 2 of the original cabins where the boat launch was originally. We also still have the shuffle board but we have not yet restored it but would like to. The office/house was torn down a few years ago. It had a tree growing through it. The lot next to us had an original cabin but tore it down a few years back a built a new one similar to the old one. The people on the other side of us also still have 2 original cabins
Hello Patricia,
Sorry I just found your note from several years ago. Leroy Invie has passed away. Several of the cabins are gone. The ones left appear to hv been moved around.i believe the family still owns the land and cabins . The old lodge burned down several years ago and C was a replaced by a new home. We still spend our summers on Lake Ada. The loons, wildlife and surrounding forests make it va treasure. I do not know of any rentals currently available.
Be well,
Paul Scribner
last year was 1972 spring beach sold forrest and marie Bolton had three kids I was the baby. I am now 72 and live in Crosslake . JENNETT sisster 85 has lots of old pictures lives on hattie lake. brother steve lives in woodberry mn . them was the simple days no spam calls. dad lived to age 87 ma 84. we was known for joken round haveing partys. and fishing.
Hello Larry,
My wife and I formerly owned a cabin that was formerly a part of Spring Beach Resort. Slew sold it in 2011. Life went full circle for us. E are Florida Residents but rent / summer on lake Ada each summer. We are renting our old cabin. We are interested in learning more about the resort and the history of Spiring Beach Resort. Let me know if you would be available for a cup of coffee or to stop by and visit sometime. E would love to learn more.
Regards,
Paul Scribner
Hi. I don’t know if I can share some memories here — I will try. I spent the best summers of my life on the east shore of Lake Ada. Beginning when I was 6 in 1951, my family (mom, dad, and older sister) started going to Lake Ada one week every summer, starting at Old Point Comfort. where we were joined by one of my dad’s brothers and his family. We then moved on to 12 years at Whispering Pines, where several more uncles and aunts families joined us. Over the years the word spread in the family about the fun we were having at Lake Ada, and so many family members wanted to join us, and did join us. But Whispering Pines had only 5 cabins. Bill Henslen had a cabin right next to Whispering Pines so we grabbed that one every year also. We ended up in the later years with family groups at Dream of the North Woods, and Spring Beach — any place where a cabin was to be found and available during that certain week. It was the most amazing time of my life — having fun with my cousins, swimming, fishing, playing horse shoe and badminton, board games, and exploring beautiful Lake Ada. And owners Matt and Alvira Bendel would join in the fun with us. My last trips to Lake Ada were the many years I went to Ada Pine Beach where I got to know owners Pat, Leroy and Gene Invie. My last trip was 3 years ago. The last resort on Lake Ada is now closed. I am about to turn 80 soon, and these memories are as vivid as if I was there right now. The sun on the white caps, listening to the wind in the pines, grabbing the towels off the line when a storm was approaching, jumping into the lake and swimming out to the raft, long, slow walks on the road early in the morning where I would look for deer tracks, playing cards on the picnic table, and ending the day in the iron bed in my bed room in one of those little cabins. I would give anything in the world to go back to those days. Lake Ada will always be my HAPPY PLACE.
Do you have any early photos of Old Point Comfort, Whispering Pines, or Ada Pine Beach — all on Lake Ada. I am interested in all photos of Lake Ada and the area, but the three resorts that I named are the ones I have stayed at. Thanks. I am also interested in photos or info on George Lind Cottages, on the east side of Gull Lake in the 1950’s on Donaldson Road. I went to the Crow Wing County Museum, and they had never heard of this resort. I had a nice photo flyer of the resort, and they were surprised to see this, and they copied it for their files. Thanks. At some point I was told that George Lind was a doctor in Brainerd, built five cabins on Gull, one for each of his children, then years later made it into a resort. It is now gone, but the field stone wall along Donaldson Road where the resort once stood is still standing there.