Cragun’s Resort on Gull Lake, Minnesota's third largest resort, is under contract to be sold to a local investment group after 85 years in the Cragun family. Leisure Hotels and Resorts, which is led ...

The sale of Minnesota's third largest resort, Cragun's Resort on Gull Lake, has been finalized, with a local investment group headed up by a Brainerd Lakes resident revealed as the buyers. Leisure ...

Gull Lake is the Lake Minnetonka of northern Minnesota. Hundreds of boaters cruise past long-time resorts such as Cragun's and Madden's, and dock at rockin' restaurants on the shoreline. Dan and Judy ...

1906: Entrepreneur T.H. Harrison envisions a streetcar from Brainerd to his acreage on Pine Point Peninsula on Gull Lake. 1934: In the depths of the Great Depression, Jack Madden and his uncle, Tom, ...

There may be a lot fewer trees in the vacationland around Gull Lake in the Brainerd lakes region, but resorts are repaired and ready to go after last summer’s storm devastation. Last July 12, a ...

It all started in the early 1930s. Today, it has blossomed into a bustling resort community. Cragun's Resort and Hotel on Gull Lake is its own community. Guests can stay on the land there without ...

BRAINERD, Minn.-Grand View Lodge is more than two hours away from the Twin Cities, but come Super Bowl weekend, the Gull Lake resort will be rolling out the red carpet for the money-spending guests.

Among the few rules for travel my wife and I always used to share: a) never retread the same vacation spot from one year to the next; b) never concern ourselves with what's offered for breakfast, and ...

NISSWA -- One of Minnesota’s oldest resorts is getting a once-in-a-generation makeover that includes a new boutique hotel, wedding chapel, recreation center and 41 own-to-rent cottage condos. Total ...