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Outdoor Fun & Activities - The Beach
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Swimming is king at Gull Four
Seasons Resort, and no vacation is
complete without a dip in the lake!
Enjoy a swim in the clean clear
water of Gull Lake. Build sand
castles in the sand or work on your
tan in a lounge chair at the beach.
Our Swimming area is marked and has
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Gull Lake is known for her clean water and lots of
it! With over 9,400 acres and a chain of lakes
adding another 3,600 acres, there is over 20 square
miles of swimming and boating opportunity. Gull
Lake's
water clarity is 10 1/2 feet as measured by the
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
You will fall in love with Gull Lake and her almost
40 miles of shoreline. Sand bars await you, as you
enjoy a cruise or experience uncrowded tubing and
water skiing fun. Gull Lake is a reservoir with the
water level controlled by a dam operated by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. This dam allows for a
mostly stable water level.
Gull Lake drains into the Gull River. From there the
flow continues into the Crow Wing River, then into
the Mississippi River. Two designated trout streams
flow into the Gull Lake Chain. Stony Brook winds
from the north and northwest and passes through
Fritz Loven Park before flowing into Upper Gull
Lake. Home Brook enters Lake Margaret from the
forests and ranch lands to the west.
Before Gull Lake resorts brought people to her
shores, steam powered boats were used to float rafts
of logs from railroad landing near Bar Harbor to the
Dam on the Gull River. Along the way many of these
logs sank, and can still be found on the bottom of
the lake today. Once the logs made it to the dam,
the dam was blown using explosives and the logs
headed down stream on the rush of water, to be sawn
into lumber at the sawmills in Crow Wing or Brainerd.
The light gauge railroads extended into the timber
country of the Foothills State Forest to the
northwest of here.
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