
HDT Team
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Landscaping for Wildlife – A Closer Look at the Upgaard Reserve
This month is Lakes Appreciation Month and (besides delving into how awesome our area’s beaches are) we wanted to showcase some methods...


HDT Team
- Jul 1, 2019
- 6 min
It’s Clean Beaches Week! BLA’s Best Beaches
July 1-7 is Clean Beach Week, and boy does the Brainerd Lakes Area have some doozys! Let’s be frank: They don’t call it the Brainerd...


HDT Team
- Jul 24, 2017
- 2 min
Brainerd Lakes Beaches Review: Part 4
In our last post reviewing the Brainerd Lakes Area beaches, I wanted to go to a beach that I had never been to before. I wanted to...


HDT Team
- Jul 21, 2017
- 4 min
Brainerd Lakes Beach Review: Part 3
So far, we’ve focused on the beaches in Crow Wing County. It seems a little unfair to focus on the ones closest to Brainerd when there...


HDT Team
- Jul 14, 2017
- 4 min
Brainerd Lakes Beach Review: Part 2
I found out that Crow Wing County only has four “public” beaches in the county limits: Gull Lake, Lum Park, Whipple Beach, and Serpent...


HDT Team
- Jul 7, 2017
- 4 min
Brainerd Lakes Beach Review: Part 1
They don’t call it the Brainerd Lakes Area for nothing. As we get into the dog days of summer, there’s no better time to make use of the...