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View of the Saint Croix River, 5 minutes from The Outing Lodge.

Amuse toi bien!

Century College at Outing Lodge: French & Cooking classes

Learn & improve your French while enjoying hors d'oeuvres the French table way.

magine a 19th century European farm house, surrounded by lawns and gardens, 300 acres of wooded walking paths, and miles of rolling land ~ a place where people would go to get away. This is the ideal toward which the Outing Lodge at Pine Point Park is evolving. And what an evolution it has been.
See: Virtual Tour Panoramas of the Outing Lodge

Calendar of Theme Dinners

These are European-style "slow food" events: Argentine Grill, Spring in Tuscany, Babette's feast, Paris in the 1920s, English Christmas, New Years Eve, Valentines.Ideal for birthdays, family, friends and company parties.

November Artists' Week-end: Painting Workshop on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th with local artist Mary Jo Van Dell. A different getaway, a time to absorb yourself in art. Two full of days of real art-work. One night out with fellow students downtown Historic Stillwater.
Tuition and fees (per person)
Private room: $330/ Shared room $290/ Class only $250
Sat. Lunch and Sunday Brunch included-tax on lodging to be added. Call for details.
Visit www.maryjovandell.com for more information

See Pine Point Park site for trails information

Interested in Horseback riding during your stay in Pine Point Park?--Email us for information about this external service.

Suite Rental Policies

The History of Pine Point Farm and Park
Pine Point was originally founded in 1858 as Minnesota's second "poor farm," a home for the chronically indigent or people just temporarily down on their luck. Stillwater was a very wealthy community in 1850, the Territorial Capital. In this abundant atmosphere, a desire to help the less fortunate culminated in the construction of a Poor Farm in 1858. The prize winning dairy farm became both a home and a workplace to thousands over its 100 years of operation. When the Farm was discontinued in 1957, Pine trees were planted and it became Pine Point Park. The house went on as a Rest Home until 1977, when it was closed and left vacant. With the intention to save it from a proposed demolition, present owner Lee Gohlike began renovating the Georgian-style structure in the early 1980s. He gutted the interior of the Lodge with a reverence for its historic past; thus it retains a certain simplicity in the architecture of its interiors. In the common area, wide-planked wooden floors and paneling cut from 100-year-old pine and fir beams, proudly show all their cracks and imperfections, providing an enchanting backdrop for the elegant Early American and European Antique Furnishings. Numerous candelabra and seven massive fireplaces give it the feeling of a more Grand, bygone era.
For more about the Outing Lodge as a hotel for the arts and sciences, read Outing hosts elite science retreat (Science) and Bed & Breakfast and beyond (Midwest Traveler) .

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