Group Cabin Rentals in Wisconsin: Two Friends Weekends That Work
Cabins that sleep 8 to 14 across northwest Wisconsin, plus what to do once you’re there
The Short Answer
If you’re bringing the whole group, Isabelle Creek Haven in Pierce County sleeps 14 and sits a few minutes from the Mississippi, Red Wing and Vino in the Valley. If it’s five of you or fewer, the A-Frame DGP on Tainter Lake near Menomonie is the one, with Jake’s Supper Club and its weekend live music right on the lake. Either way the formula is the same: a full day on the water, one round of golf, one real night out, good meat from a local butcher on the grill, and your own yard games.
Two Kinds of Friends Weekend
Most ‘group cabin’ advice assumes every group is twelve people. Ours aren’t. We see two kinds: the big reunion, where the point is getting everyone under one roof, and the small crew of four or five who want a lake, a grill and somewhere good to go on Saturday night. They want different cabins and different weekends, so this guide is two trips.
The big-group cabin is Isabelle Creek Haven, near Bay City in Pierce County: 14 beds, big common space, and the Mississippi River valley out the door. The small-crew cabin is the A-Frame DGP on Tainter Lake, north of Menomonie: a lake off the dock, a town ten minutes away, and more friend groups of five or fewer than any cabin we manage.
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The Big-Group Weekend at Isabelle Creek
Friday: arrive with the groceries done
The cabin is in the country, so shop before you get there. For the grill, Meatheads in Bay City is the stop, a few minutes from the cabin; buy more than you think. The cabin’s own guide has the nearest groceries, liquor and gas, so send the link to whoever’s driving in last.
Saturday morning: the river
The Mississippi and Lake Pepin are minutes away. If anyone in the group has a boat, this is the weekend to bring it; if not, Red Wing has rentals and the Great River Road drive south along the bluffs to Maiden Rock and Pepin is the best hour in the car you’ll have all year.
Saturday afternoon: golf
Mississippi National Golf Links and Red Wing Golf Course are across the bridge; Ellsworth Country Club is twenty minutes the other way; Clifton Highlands near Prescott if you want a longer course. Book tee times a week ahead for a big group.
Saturday night: Vino in the Valley
Wood-fired pizza and wine at long outdoor tables in a valley near Maiden Rock, about twenty-five minutes from the cabin. It’s the one reservation to make before the trip, and the right size for a group of twelve. Back at the cabin: bonfire.
Sunday: slow
Big breakfast, a last swim or walk along the creek, and checkout. Downtown Red Wing is worth an hour on the way home if people aren’t in a hurry.
The Small-Crew Weekend at the A-Frame DGP
Friday: Cut Rite on the way in
Cut Rite Meat Shoppe at 872 N Broadway St in Menomonie (715-232-8435) is a real butcher counter ten minutes from the cabin. Brats, steaks, the smoked stuff. Stop there, then the cabin.
Saturday: Tainter Lake
The lake is off the dock. Fish, swim, float, or take a boat the length of it. Jake’s Supper Club is on the water, so lunch by boat is an option.
Golf
Tanglewood Greens in Menomonie is ten minutes away and takes walk-ups most weekends for a foursome.
Saturday night: Jake’s
Jake’s Supper Club on Tainter Lake has live music on weekend nights and the kind of atmosphere a supper club is supposed to have. Go early, stay late.
Sunday
Coffee on the deck, breakfast in Menomonie if you want it, and home.
Group Cabins Across Northwest Wisconsin
The two trips above are the ones we know best, but a group weekend works at any of our bigger cabins. Here’s everything we manage that sleeps eight or more, by area.
Hayward
Gratitude Up North — sleeps 8, Round Lake. area guide
Spooner and Shell Lake
Big McKenzie — sleeps 8, McKenzie Lake. area guide
Little Minnow — sleeps 8, Shell Lake. area guide
Dunn Lake — sleeps 8, Dunn Lake. area guide
Webster and Siren
Burlingame Cabin — sleeps 8, Burlingame Lake. area guide
Polk County
Oakwood Shores — sleeps 10, Wapogasset Lake. area guide
Pierce and Dunn
Isabelle Creek Haven — sleeps 14, Isabelle Creek. area guide
What to Bring
Yard games. The single most common piece of feedback we get from friend groups is that they wished they’d brought their own: cornhole, spikeball, ladder ball, a volleyball. Cabins have some gear, but not enough for a group that wants to play all afternoon.
A good cooler for the dock, bug spray for the bonfire, a speaker, and the meat. Everything else is in the cabin or ten minutes away; each cabin’s area guide lists the closest grocery, bait shop, liquor store and clinic.
The Rules That Matter for Groups
Sleeps means sleeps. The occupancy on the listing is the number of people who can be in the cabin, not the number of beds plus a few on the couch. It’s a septic and insurance limit, not a suggestion. If your group is bigger than the number, book the bigger cabin.
Quiet hours are real. Our cabins are on lakes with neighbors who live there year-round, and they call. Keep the bonfire talk on the fire side of the house after ten and nobody has a problem.
Tell us about boats and extra vehicles when you book so we can tell you where they go.
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