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Home of America's first Living History Museum of Camping. Wisconsin glamping and Northwoods cabin rentals on North Twin Lake near Eagle River.
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Great fishing, snowmobiling, and ice fishing. Where roughing it doesn't have to be that rough.

09/23/2026

Hello, Friends -- A very nice family generously offered to donate a vintage canoe to our new Museum of Camping! It's a 1938 Peterborough Prospector Canoe that has been in their family since it was new! Canvas & wood, 16' long, ~85 lbs. We need to transport it about 400 miles from a town just east of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Any ideas? Anyone traveling here from that area who might be able to haul it for us? (Sample pic for reference.)

Also, if you haven't yet heard about our museum, check out this link: https://povresort.com/living-history-museum-of-camping/

07/28/2026

🎉 BIG NEWS from the Northwoods! 🎉

The Living History Museum of Camping — right here at Point of View Lake Resort — has officially been featured on Atlas Obscura, the world's guide to hidden wonders and extraordinary places! 🗺️⛺

America's first living history museum of camping, resorts & cabins — and it lives on our little lake in the Northwoods. We're beyond proud — and honestly still grinning.

Come see what the fuss is about: the museum is free to visit, open daily through September — and if you want the full experience, you can sleep inside the story in one of our restored vintage campers, or make a lake weekend of it in a cabin. August and September nights are filling up 🍂

👉 See our Atlas Obscura feature: atlasobscura.com/places/the-living-history-museum-of-camping
🛖 Visit, stay & book: povresort.com

💬 Tag someone who'd road-trip for this — and if you've visited the museum, tell us your favorite piece below! 👇

07/20/2026

In the Northwoods, nobody ever said "we're going to the cabin." You went to the camp. Didn't matter if it was a tent, a camper, or a cabin your grandpa built — it was the camp. That one word is why our museum exists: tent camping, glamping, and cabin life were never separate stories up here. They're one story, told across every unit at POV. 🌲

What did YOUR family call it? 👇

Walk the story: the exhibit hall is free on weekends — or sleep inside it: povresort.com/pov-glamping-wisconsin

More on the museum: povresort.com/living-history-museum-of-camping

📸 Historical images courtesy of the Eagle River Historical Society ,

07/17/2026

NORTHWOODS NEIGHBORS: the nation's first Living History Museum of Camping at POV is now COMPLETE — 41 exhibits, two 20-foot timeline banners, every cabin and camper telling its decade's story. The central exhibit hall is open to visitors on weekends — free. Come walk through a century of how we've all gone "up to the camp." Bring your parents; they'll narrate it for you. 🌲

And locals — here's the staycation you've been meaning to take: spend a night INSIDE the museum. Sleep in a restored 1953 camper or a luxury tent on the lake, cocktail cards from the decade in hand, ten minutes from your own driveway. No packing, no traffic — and locals know the moves: check in Thursday and beat the weekend rush, or check in Sunday just as the tourists head home and have the lake almost entirely to yourselves. July & August openings. Book at povresort.com — or come tour first and pick your decade. ✨

Book Online: https://povresort.com/pov-glamping-wisconsin/

For More on the Museum: https://povresort.com/living-history-museum-of-camping/

📸 Historical images throughout courtesy of Eagle River Historical Society and licensed from the Wisconsin Historical Society — grateful to both for helping us tell this story

River, WI Chamber Of Commerce

07/16/2026

Big news from POV. 🌲

For the first time in our history, you can make POV home — not just for a week, but for a season or a school year.

Starting this September, a handful of our furnished lakefront cabins are available as monthly rentals: heat, wifi, plowed drive, full kitchen — everything included, one simple price, no 12-month lease. School-year leases for teachers and professionals.

Winter-season packages for snowmobile and ice-fishing families. Month-to-month for life's in-between chapters.

Two-bedroom cabins from $1,650/month all-inclusive. Winter season packages from $7,600.

We only have a handful of cabins to offer, and a few are already spoken for. If you — or someone you know — has ever said 'I wish I could just LIVE up here'... this is that.

Details + inquiry: https://povresort.com/northwoods-monthly-rentals 💚

06/02/2026

Ever wish you could trade a Facebook “photo dump” for the actual 80s lake weekend your parents never stopped talking about? 🎞️ Point of View Lake Resort on North Twin Lake turned that exact feeling into America’s first Living History Museum of . 12 vintage glamping units curated decade by decade, plus cabins that double as exhibits. ⁣
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📻 In each space you’ll find real family photos, era right gear, and the crockpot and campfire recipes people actually used, all rooted by a free, year‑round central hall with nearly 200 artifacts and an birchbark canoe honoring 9,000 years on these waters! ⁣
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Member Spotlight: Point of View Lake Resort

05/27/2026

Somewhere in a shoebox in your parents' basement, there's a photograph.

You're nine. You're standing on a dock in northern Wisconsin in a too-big life jacket, holding up a fish that's smaller than you remember. Behind you, your dad is laughing. Your mom is taking the picture. You can almost smell the lake — that specific Northwoods smell of pine and wet wood and cold water that doesn't exist anywhere else.

For a hundred years, that was the Northwoods. The drive north. The first glimpse of the lake through the trees. The crockpot on the counter when you got back from fishing. The card game that lasted until somebody's mom said it was time for bed.
We just opened America's first Living History Museum of Camping at POV Resort because that history is worth remembering — and the people who lived it are starting to leave us. Twelve vintage glamping units curated as decade-by-decade exhibits. Every cabin a parallel exhibit. A central exhibit hall with nearly two hundred photographs and artifacts, an Ojibwe birchbark canoe acknowledging 9,000 years on these waters, and the cocktails and crockpot recipes families actually made.

Come visit. The central hall is free, year-round, no booking required. Bring your kids. Bring your parents. Bring the friend who's always saying "they don't make things like they used to."

Help us spread the word. Tag someone whose family came north every summer. We built this for the people who'd love that it exists.

And if you want to sleep inside the history — book at povresort.com.

The lake is still here. The smell of pine. The loons. We're keeping the story going.

05/25/2026

Memorial Day weekend, North Twin Lake.

To everyone who served, and the families who carried it: thank you.

This weekend we quietly opened something we've spent two years building — America's first Living History Museum of Camping. It honors the way Americans have camped, traveled, and come north for over a century: the families who built lives around weekends like this one, the soldiers who came home to lakes like this one, and the people whose history was on this land long before any of us. WWII-era camp kits. The Fisherman's Special. The Ojibwe canoe that opens the central exhibit hall, acknowledging 9,000 years of history on these waters.

Twelve glamping units curated as decade-by-decade exhibits. Every cabin a parallel exhibit of the Wisconsin Northwoods family vacation. A permanent central exhibit hall, open year-round and free to walk through.

You don't read about it. You sleep in it.

Everyone is invited to come visit — neighbors, travelers, locals, anyone curious. The central hall is free and open year-round, no booking required. If you'd like to stay a while, you can also book a glamping unit or cabin at povresort.com.

And if this resonates with you, please help us spread the word. We built this for the people who'd love that it exists.

Today, the lake is for all of us.

05/22/2026

MEET THE UNIT: Al Capone's Luxury Tent, Site #10 — Memorial Weekend, and it's THIS weekend.

Quick story: that island 500 feet off our dock once belonged to an associate of Al Capone — Doberman pinschers, men with tommy guns in boats when the bosses were up. So when we built our luxury tents, we leaned in.

Capone's tent is a replica of the A-frame canvas tents the gangster crowd actually used up north in the '20s and '30s. Sleeps 6. Memory foam mattresses, luxury bedding, Edison string lights, picnic table, hammock, fire ring. Somewhere between prohibition hideout and luxury weekend.

Who it's for: friend groups, novelty seekers, family reunions where one person has been talking about gangster history since 1987.

It's a sleeps-6 with a story, and it's open for the holiday weekend three days out. That combination books fast. Reserve today and a free s'mores kit is waiting at your firepit: povresort.com

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3932 Point Of View Trail
Phelps, WI
54554

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+17152044111

Website

https://povresort.com/

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