Pine Beach Resort - Side Lake

10/06/2026

10/03/2026

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10/02/2026

OCT. and NOV. CABIN OPENINGS

Oct. 28th- Nov. 1st
4-night stay Cabin 1 $880.00

Oct. 29th- Nov. 1st
3-night stay Cabin 6 $600.00

THANKSGIVING
Nov. 25TH - Nov. 29th
4-night stay Cabin 1 $725.00
This reservation can be increased up to 7 nights

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10/02/2026

Campground update, 17 of our 32 families are still open and enjoying this marvelous fall weather. Seasonal sites at Pine Beach are controlled by Mother Nature sometimes giving our campers almost 80 days more in the spring and fall than many seasonal campgrounds offer. Here's is to at least 2 or 3 more fun weeks. Campground applications can be made at www.pinebeachresort.com

09/20/2026

Join us Saturday, October 3rd at the Side Lake Fall Festival from 1-4pm at the Side Lake Community Center Pavilion!

Enjoy an afternoon of live music, animals, pony rides, hobby horse obstacle course, pickleball, games, crafts, prizes, snacks, hot c***r, and more!

NEW THIS YEAR: pedal tractor pull contest for ages 3+ with prizes in all divisions!

Free pumpkins for the first 200 children (limit 1 per child, while supplies last).

Event is free to attend and all are welcome!

09/10/2026

Two stunning full moons are heading our way soon! 🌕✨

Mark your calendars for a spectacular celestial display as the vibrant Harvest Moon and the glowing Hunter's Moon light up our night skies.

🌾 September 26 — The Harvest Moon
As the famous first full moon of fall, it lights the way for traditional late-summer harvesting.

🏹 October 26 — The Hunter’s Moon
It signals the time to prepare for winter, historically aiding hunters tracking game through cleared fields.

Don't miss these breathtaking full moons! 🌌

09/05/2026

That pink wedge covering the northeast third of Minnesota is the oldest ground in the state, and everything up there follows from it.

The Canadian Shield is the exposed core of the North American continent. In Minnesota it runs from the Boundary Waters and Rainy River country southeast through the Iron Range and down to Duluth, then along the North Shore to Canada.

The rock is Precambrian and some of it is genuinely ancient. The Morton Gneiss in the Minnesota River valley, an outlier of the same basement rock, dates to around 3.5 billion years, among the oldest exposed rock on Earth. The Ely Greenstone in the Vermilion district runs about 2.7 billion. The Duluth Complex and the North Shore basalts came from the Midcontinent Rift about 1.1 billion years ago, when the continent started tearing apart and flooded the region with lava.

That basalt is why Split Rock, Palisade Head and Gooseberry look the way they do.

The iron is the other consequence. Banded iron formation laid down roughly two billion years ago in ancient seas became the Mesabi, Vermilion and Cuyuna ranges. That ore built American steel, and it is why Hibbing, Virginia, Eveleth and Two Harbors exist.

The Shield also explains the lakes. Glaciers scraped this hard rock repeatedly and left almost no soil, gouging out thousands of basins that filled with water. The Boundary Waters is what happens when ice meets granite.

Thin acidic soil means poor farming, which is why the northeast stayed forested while the southern two thirds became cropland. Pine, spruce, birch and aspen instead of corn and soybeans.

The line on that map is the real boundary in Minnesota.

South of it, farms. North of it, rock, water and trees.

09/03/2026

Rain falling on Minnesota can end up in three different oceans, and there is a single point in this state where all three watersheds meet.

That spot is called Hill of Three Waters, on the Laurentian Divide near Hibbing on the Iron Range. Stand there and a few feet in any direction determines whether water reaches the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic or Hudson Bay and the Arctic.

The southern and largest share drains to the Gulf. That is the Mississippi basin, starting at Lake Itasca and gathering the Minnesota River, the St. Croix and everything across the southern two thirds of the state. Water leaving Itasca takes roughly three months to reach the Gulf.

The northeastern wedge drains to the Atlantic. Everything on the Superior side of the Laurentian Divide runs down the North Shore into Lake Superior, then through the lakes, the St. Lawrence and out past Newfoundland.

The northwestern third drains to the Arctic. The Red River runs north along the North Dakota border into Lake Winnipeg, then the Nelson River carries it to Hudson Bay. The Rainy River and the Boundary Waters go the same direction.

That last one surprises people. Rivers in Minnesota flowing north is counterintuitive until you understand the land tilts that way in the northwest, a legacy of glacial Lake Agassiz.

The Laurentian Divide is the ridge separating Arctic drainage from everything else, and it runs across northern Minnesota through the Iron Range. Highway 53 crosses it and there is a marker.

The reason this happens here is glacial. Ice sheets scoured and deposited unevenly, leaving a landscape with barely any relief and three separate exits.

The whole state is basically flat.

And it still manages to feed three oceans.

08/21/2026

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