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RV campground approved for Elbow Lake on 3-2 Becker County vote
The RV park will be lnext to the Jolly Fisherman Resort, on the upper part of the long, narrow lake and will be open each year from fishing opener to Oct. 1.
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A number of Elbow Lake property owners were at the Becker County Board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, in opposition to a proposed RV campground on the lake. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune)
An RV resort on Elbow Lake was approved on a 3-2 Becker County Board vote Tuesday, but not until commissioners cut the number of RV sites from 49 to 40 and added a number of stipulations to the conditional use permit.
Elbow Lake uproar over proposed 49-unit RV campground
“If this gets approved, where does it stop?” asked one property owner. “What’s the limit on projects of this type?”
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Elbow Lake residents showed up at the Becker County Board meeting Tuesday, July 20, 2021 to voice concern about a proposed RV campground on the lake. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune)
A proposed RV resort on Elbow Lake has generated a wave of protest from lakeshore owners, and ran into some resistance from the Becker County Board on Tuesday, July 20.
Joey Stahl of Amenia, N.D., owns about 50 acres on and near Elbow Lake and requested a conditional use permit to put in a 49-unit RV park there. Elbow Lake is in Becker County on the White Earth Reservation, roughly centered between White Earth Village, Ponsford and Naytahwaush.
Local patience pays off as Heartland Trail shows promise
“When I first heard it would cost $20 million and take a number of years, I thought, ‘That can’t be right,’” former Frazee Mayor Hank Ludtke told the crowd at the Heartland Trail ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. “They said ‘you can’t just go out in the middle of the night with a Caterpillar and make your own trail.’ I thought, ‘obviously, you don’t know us very well.’”
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The Heartland Trail now ends at Acorn Lake, but is poised to cross a bridge now being built there over County Road 10. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune)
Heartland Trail opens from Detroit Lakes to Acorn Lake, part of eventual route from Moorhead to Park Rapids and beyond dl-online.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dl-online.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.