Summerbarn
  • Unique. Private. Cozy. Relaxing. Our sustainably-built guest house is located next to Giants Ridge resort area, about an hour from Duluth, the BWCA, and Lake Superior's legendary North Shore. Enjoy quick and easy access to nordic ski trails, the Mesabi Bike Trail and miles of paddling waterways. Our historic 13-acre homestead is also the perfect getaway to relax and enjoy the simpler life.

Mother’s Day Special

Our guest house is currently available for Mother’s Day!  Give Mom a weekend stay at Green Gate Guest House this Mother’s Day holiday and we’ll provide up to 4 dinner vouchers for the fabulous Mother’s Day Buffet at The Lodge at Giants Ridge- Mom gets her best Mother’s Day experience EVER, you become (or remain) … Read more

Winter hangs on!

  The snow is great, and you have 14 days left to ski, board & enjoy winter! The Giants Ridge Ski Area is open daily 9am – 4:30pm, and will close for the season at 4:30 pm on Sunday, April 7. Call us now to receive 25% off any lodging reservations at Green Gate Guest … Read more

Spring Snow Days Special

With over a foot of new snow in the last week, ski conditions are the best in years!  We are currently offering a 25% discount on all reservations for the remainder of the Spring ski season.  Dont’ miss out on the best month of winter for outdoor fun!

Here we are!

It took awhile, but we now have a sign along the Giant’s Ridge Road so that you first-timers can find the property.  Shawn deliberated for some time before coming up with the design, which represents our area’s history of lumber, iron mining and farming.  He made the sign from some locally-milled cedar timbers and an … Read more

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The farmhouse gets a front porch!

We’ve been working hard during the past couple months to complete the addition of a front porch to the main farm house on the Green Gate property.   This 110 year-old farm house is the only remaining structure from the original turn-of-the-century mining town that once existed on our site, and we are working towards a … Read more

Potica, Porketta, Pasties…

Our communities across the Iron Range are a melting pot of ethnic groups that arrived for mining jobs over the past century.  Lucky for us, many of their traditional culinary dishes are still popular today, and visitors have a unique opportunity to try them while they are here.  One of our recent guests sent us  … Read more

First Tracks

It snowed most of the day yesterday, leaving a nice fluffy blanket on all the trees AND enough powder on the ground to make us get out the skis and think about using them soon!  Here are some photos from the property…we are hoping this is a start to a great ski season in northern … Read more

The Autumn Slideshow

We were fortunate to host a wonderful family in ‘the barn’ who spent a week hiking, biking, paddling and birdwatching in our area.  They shared an impressive slideshow of their adventures, as well as the following list of birds sighted while they were here: BIRDS SEEN FROM THE GREEN GATE PROPERTY: Canada Geese Wood Duck … Read more

Rejuvenate at Green Gate Spa packages

We’ve teamed up with The Pebble Spa Co. to offer in-house spa packages to our guests!   Retreat to our private, cozy barn-home, and choose from a variety of spa treatments to make your stay even more relaxing.  Visit our Specials page to see our package deals and available treatments, or contact us to customize … Read more

The Fall colors around Green Gate

We took some photos at our property yesterday, and some more during a bike ride around Canton pit- an abandoned iron mining site near our little town of Biwabik…a beautiful time to be out in nature!

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