Dreamcatcher

Pet Friendly

You really won’t find anything else like Dreamcatcher at Ludlow’s Island. Or on Lake Vermilion, for that matter. Four stories tall, Dreamcatcher will give you a panoramic porch among the treetops. It’s a view unlike any other at the resort.

Ludlow’s teamed up with SALA Architects of Minneapolis to create Dreamcatcher, our newest cabin. The cabin’s name was chosen to represent the evening hours after sunset and to reflect the Ojibwe tradition in our Northwoods.

Nestled among towering Norway and white pines, each story has it’s own story. The first floor bedroom has its own bath and outdoor deck. The second floor bedroom comes with a whirlpool bath and king bed. The third floor living area offers comfort near the clouds with floor-to-ceiling glass panels.

Finally, the fourth floor master bedroom suite’s whirlpool tub and outdoor deck offer a vacation experience unlike any other in Northern Minnesota. Dreamcatcher is also unique on the island in that it has its own washer and dryer in the cabin.‍

We wanted to build a unique cabin and the concept of a “tree house” design kept coming to mind. We did not want to “crowd” the island with too many cabins and did not want guests to feel they were living too near one another.

A tree house design could be built with a small foot print — to minimize structural crowding — as well as minimize the “people crowding” by taking the living and sleeping level off the ground and placing it up in the air. Architect Dale Mulfinger of SALA Architects was called upon and soon a one-bedroom cabin evolved with an 18-foot stairway up to a living and sleeping level. Dale enlisted his senior architectural students from the University of Minnesota to come up with designs meeting the Ludlow criteria.

In the fall of 1998, forty students traveled to Ludlow’s to survey the site. Their unique task was to design a “tree house” cabin that could be built without the use of large equipment. That fall, the students presented their design ideas to Mark and Sally at the University.

As ideas evolved, we recognized that the majority of our customer base is families and a one-bedroom cabin would not be practical. We took the basic idea of the 18-foot climb to a living and sleeping space and incorporated two lower levels of bedrooms. The current cabin retains a third- and fourth-level living and sleeping space with the first two levels reserved for sleeping.

Starting at

358

/night

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