Roads open, yes. To the flats, not yet. 5 days ago, our ice team found many "traps" around the northern flats of areas with 10-11" of ice. We opened access to the flats by ATV's but not to vehicles. The next few days of extreme cold will help build the ice we need to allow safe vehicle traffic but the extreme drop in temperature will crack any new exposed ice badly and create some serious dangers; when we say 10 MPH, we mean it for a reason. Wait for daylight to travel the roads and travel with caution. At this [...]

Our team scoped out the flats this morning (Weimer, Bombeck, Pantry, Resort, etc.) and to our disappointment, many snow covered areas still have 9.5 - 10.5" of ice!! Knowing if we open a road between the flats to traffic, many will off-road into these dangerous areas as there are far too many to mark. Thus, we have opened access to the mud for ATV's, Snowmobiles and UTV's only. Our first and second break (up to 31' fow) has been very productive and remains open to 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks pulling up to 21' tandem wheelhouses as the first break [...]

Progress report to ring in the New Year from the Red Door Resort. All of our rentals are on the ice and will be ready to rent this coming weekend; we still have a couple available. We are staging houses and plan to pull houses and plow roads starting Wednesday morning to the first and second breaks as well as pull all those members wanting to be on the first or second breaks. We will update our progress daily. We will be allowing 1/2 ton trucks and cars out this coming weekend and will be allowing single axle wheelhouses out [...]

Not much has changed since our last report as the weather has been above freezing daily. We have gained a little ice but due to the 10-15 degree nights and 40 plus degree days, there is a lot of expanding and contracting of the ice which leads to many small pressure cracks on the ice. There is one pressure crack that converges out past our access through the rough ice which we have marked with cones and at present, the pressure cracks are stable and sound, that doesn’t mean it can’t change. Be sure to access the ice “at your [...]