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  <title><![CDATA[Northwind Cedar Point]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Northwind Cedar Point: twelve cedar cabins on Birchwood Lake near Ely, Minnesota. Fishing, kayaking, quiet nights. No resort fees. Open May-March.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fishing Birchwood Lake for Walleye: What Actually Works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dale Erickson has been fishing Birchwood Lake since 1987, which means he has been doing it longer than I have owned the property. When I first asked him to guide for us in 2010, he said he would think about it and called back three days later. He has guided every summer since. What follows is a mix of what Dale has told me over the years and what I have picked up watching guests come back from morning trips with fish and with stories.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What to Actually Pack for a Northern Minnesota Cabin Trip]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every summer, guests arrive at Northwind Cedar Point with a cooler full of food, a bag full of clothes, and approximately zero bug spray. Or they bring the polite kind, the kind that smells nice and does nothing. Northern Minnesota in July is beautiful and it is also, in the evenings especially, a place where the mosquitoes have opinions. This is a practical list, built from seventeen summers of watching people arrive and depart.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-20</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why We Build With Northern White Cedar]]></title>
    <link>https://northwindcedarpoint.com/notes/northern-white-cedar-cabin-construction.html</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[When I started re-siding the original eight cabins in 2010, I had a choice between several materials. Vinyl siding was cheaper and would have required no maintenance. Engineered wood was an option. I chose northern white cedar milled at a small operation outside Cook, Minnesota, and I have not regretted it. Here is what I have learned about the wood over fifteen years of watching it age.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Swimming in Birchwood Lake: What to Know Before You Jump In]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Birchwood Lake is a spring-fed lake, which means the water is cold, clear, and stays that way through the summer. The clarity is about fourteen feet on a calm day, which means you can watch the sandy bottom from the dock and see the occasional northern pike moving through the weed edge. Swimming here is not like swimming in a pool or a warm southern lake. It is better, in my opinion, but it takes a day to adjust.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fall Color at Birchwood Lake: When to Come and What to Expect]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[I have been watching the fall color on this property since 2009 and I have never gotten tired of it. The birch trees start turning in the last week of September, which is the color most people think of when they think of a Minnesota fall. But the tamaracks, which are the only deciduous conifer in the region, turn gold in mid-October, and that is the thing worth planning a trip around.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-08-15</pubDate>
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