Family Resorts in Minnesota
" Popular family vacation resorts in Minnesota "

East Silent Resort
30424 410th Street
Dent, Minnesota 56528
Phone: (800) 242-6904 or (218) 758-2716
East Silent Resort is a family resort located in the heart of Minnesota’s “Otter Tail Country Lakes Area.” A long lane covered by a beautiful canopy of maples, oaks and birch leads to 11 comfortable lakeside cottages. With a level sandy beach and crystal clear water, East Silent Lake is the “main attraction” for many guests. Enjoy skiing, wakeboarding, tubing, fishing, snorkeling, canoeing, swimming and boating. Back on land, fun activities include sand volleyball, basketball, lawn games, campfires, bird watching, hiking, biking and playing on the playground. The surrounding area provides guests with golf courses, tennis courts, turtle races, restaurants, antique shops, horseback riding and two beautiful state parks. East Silent Resort offers scheduled activities for all ages, including a children’s program and youth activities. Favorite activities include a weekly bird house hunt, sundae night, torpedo rides, and farewell BBQ!

Distinctive Lodges (includes Gunflint Lodge, Lutsen Resort, Bearskin Lodge, Kavanaugh's Sylvan Lake Resort, Lost Lake Lodge, Ludlow's Island Resort)
Individual lodge and resort contact information can be found here.
Distinctive Lodges is a group of Minnesota resorts owned and operated by families for families. Six resorts are located across northern Minnesota - near the Gunflint Trail, Brainerd Lakes, Lake Superior, and Lake Vermilion. Choose from lodging options including cabins with fireplaces, sea villas, luxury condos, or even a waterfront cottage on a private island resort. Enjoy a variety of activities for the whole family with hiking, canoeing, and skiing. Resorts also provide fun just for the kids, with offerings like kids' day camps, fishing fun guided by on staff naturalists, on-site playgrounds with tree houses, and more.

Grand View Lodge
23521 Nokomis
Nisswa, Minnesota 56468
Phone: 800-432-3788
Availability & rates
Grand View Lodge on beautiful Gull Lake in the beauty and serenity of the Northwoods of Minnesota. With a wide variety of accommodations, they cater to couples and families looking for a Northwoods escape as well as those in search of pampered luxury. Their recreation activities and award winning children's program provide hours of fun during your family vacation. Horseback riding, tennis, 1500 foot beach on beautiful Gull Lake, fishing and much more offer hours of activities for the young at heart.

Ludlow's Island Resort
P.O. Box 1146
Cook, Minnesota 55723
Phone: 218-666-5407
Ludlows Minnesota family resort overlooks Lake Vermilion with it's 40,000 acres of friendly navigable waters and 365 islands and nearly 1200 miles of shoreline. With a unique blend of full-service resort amenities, personalized service, world-class recreation, natural beauty, and the Northern Minnesota ambiance, Ludlows Lake Vermilion Resort offers a unique vacation experience for all ages. The resort offers a wilderness setting with multi-bath-fireplace cabins situated under a canopy of pine and birch and within 50 feet of the water's edge. Activities include tennis, water sports, hiking, golfing and daily children's activities interpret a northern Minnesota experience. There are hikes, pontoon rides, tree planting, and native arts. Water sports include canoes, kayaks, paddle-boats, hydrobikes, water-skiing, tubing, and our 8' "iceberg" climbing rock.

Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge
Box 400
Deerwood, Minnesota 56444
Phone: 800-450-4545
Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge is situated on 400 acres of lakeshore just an hour and a half north of Minneapolis in the heart of Minnesota's vacationland, the Brainerd Lakes area. The resort features log cabins which have all the latest amenities, golf course condominiums, lakeside condominium, and rooms attached to the main lodge. Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge is renowned for its "country club like" atmosphere and amenities. The resort boasts of 27 holes of golf, tennis courts, two outdoor pools, an indoor pool, a beautiful sandy beach, fishing, boating and supervised play programs for the kids.

White Birch Resort
PO box 186
Blackduck, Minnesota 56630
Phone: 218-835-4552 / 877-835-4552
White Birch Resort is a family fishing resort on Blackduck Lake. They are 3 miles from the town of Blackduck and 26 miles north of Bemidji. All of their cabins (8) and the reunion house overlook Blackduck Lake which is noted for great walleye fishing. They have many amenities for children of all ages since the owners also have young children. There are many things for the younger ones to do like dock and river fishing, swimming pool, canoes, kayaks, paddleboats, 2 playgrounds, game room, with video games, ping pong, shuffle board, and of course smores. Cribs and highchairs for the little ones are available if needed.