Hoist Bay is in Namakan Lake. This bay originally had a logging camp on its banks. It was turned into a resort in the late 30's. The park service has turned it into a place you can explore, look at the old buidings and have a picnic. I'm not sure when the resort went out of business but the cabins are still in pretty decent shape. You can go inside the cabins -- they have been stripped down to the walls. They have knotty pine covering the walls, ceilings and floors. They even have electricity that works. Not sure if the park service is working on doing more to restore them or not. The other building that looks like an old barn actually was used to store ice that was harvested from the lake in the winter. The ice was covered with sawdust and stayed frozen for use in the summer. This building even had a fish cleaning area in the bottom part.
The other interesting place we found exploring around here was a fallout shelter. It was built in the ground like a root cellar. It had a sign over it saying fallout shelter. You couldn't open the door. Not sure I really wanted to see what would come flying out of there anyway. I don't know if it was a joke but the sign looked pretty official --like it truly was a fallout shelter built back in the 50's.
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