The Casual Rooms Carry Breezy Point Resort Through Winter. Its Next Build Is Another One.
Breezy Point Resort's two dressiest dining rooms have closed for the season. The sign for Antlers reads "closed for the winter, see you in April," and Palmer's Grille at Deacon's Lodge carries the same message. Marina II stops full dinner service from Oct. 10 to May 1. What's left from now until spring is the resort's casual side: a lounge, a roadhouse, a coffee counter, a candy shop and a breakfast buffet. The building now going up on the old Traditional course is designed around that same casual kind of room.
Breezy Point Resort has been here since 1921. The newest pieces are a two-story clubhouse that broke ground in October and a short course scheduled to open next summer. Both are planned around a drink, a meal and people watching the action. You can see that plan most clearly by looking at what stays open in November.
Here are the posted hours for the rooms still running this winter. They come straight from the resort's own pages, and Dockside notes that its operating days are subject to change.
| Spot | Posted hours | What's going on there |
|---|---|---|
| Dockside Lounge | Open Wed.–Sun. from 11 a.m.; kitchen 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Sun., Wed. and Thurs. | Live music on the winter calendar, skating right next door |
| The North Star | 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Sun.–Thurs., 11 a.m.–midnight Fri.–Sat.; kitchen closes at 9 p.m. | Tuesday meat raffle at 5 p.m., Thursday meat raffle and virtual races at 6 p.m. |
| Marina II | Breakfast buffet Fri. 7–10 a.m., Sat.–Sun. 7–11 a.m. | Hockey buffets on Friday and Saturday nights |
| The Coffee House | Daily, 7 a.m.–3 p.m. | Caribou Coffee in the front-desk lobby, open to the public |
| The Chocolate Ox | Thurs.–Mon., 11 a.m.–8 p.m. | Ice cream, handcrafted candy, gifts |
The newest names on that list came out of the lobby remodel. In March, the Pine and Lakes Echo Journal reported that the Caribou Coffee House & Bakery had moved into the new lobby, next to a new gift shop and across from the space the Chocolate Ox was getting ready to fill. Today the Chocolate Ox lists five days a week of hours and a phone number, 218-562-8010. This is its first winter on the lobby corridor, so a coffee counter and a candy counter now face each other in a part of the building that used to be a place you walked through.
The North Star has been around longer. The Echo Journal covered its opening in July 2024. It is the latest-closing room on the property, open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and it runs two weekly meat raffles. The resort also lists the North Star's golf simulators among its winter activities, which puts most of a golfer's winter at Breezy Point in a building that isn't on a course at all.
Since Nov. 6, Marina II has served a Friday Italian buffet and a Saturday Tex-Mex buffet for hockey teams. The room that serves steak and seafood with a lake view all summer feeds youth hockey weekends in the winter, along with the weekend breakfast crowd.
The resort's winter activities page lists ice fishing, snowmobiling, sledding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hockey and skating by Dockside. The dated events from here to February mostly happen around that same lakeside lounge:
All five take place in rooms that stay open all year. None depend on Antlers or Palmer's Grille. Ace Valley adds the same kind of room on the golf side of the property.
The resort held its groundbreaking for the Ace Valley clubhouse on Monday, Oct. 5. The Pine and Lakes Echo Journal describes a two-story building with a pro shop, extra gathering space and Happy Dave's, "a bar and social dining concept" named for longtime Breezy Point Resort General Manager Dave Gravdahl. The resort credited Hy-Tec Construction, Widseth Design, Pratt's Excavating, Borden Excavating and Central Lakes Landscape as partners on the clubhouse and course.
Resort president David Spizzo described the building this way to the Echo Journal:
"The clubhouse will be a major part of that experience, a place where people can come together, share a meal or a drink and make memories, whether they played 12 holes or came to enjoy the atmosphere and watch the fun."
The last part of that quote, "came to enjoy the atmosphere and watch the fun," holds the design idea. Golf architect Andy Staples designed Ace Valley as a 12-hole, par-3 course on part of the historic Traditional Golf Course. The Echo Journal reports that it will have lighted holes for evening play, an island-green bonus hole with a progressive jackpot, a signature rooftop tee shot and a large social putting course. A hole with a jackpot and a tee shot from a roof work best with an audience, and the clubhouse bar puts one right there.
The rest of the old course stays on as the Traditional 10. The resort's golf page lists it as a 10-hole, par-30 course, under construction in 2026 and opening in summer 2027. The Ace Valley page gives July 2027 as the target for the new course. Deacon's Lodge and Whitebirch remain the resort's two 18-hole championship courses.
The coffee counter, the candy shop and the clubhouse all come out of one investment. In October 2025 the Echo Journal reported a $17.8 million investment by the Spizzo family, who own the resort. The plan covered Ace Valley, new lodging, a new marina, lobby and restaurant enhancements, more renovation at Whitebirch and the addition of the Chocolate Ox. Ace Valley accounts for $8.5 million of that. The resort pledged another $9.3 million to renovate three holes of another golf course, build a new marina, marketplace and additional housing, and open a new Roadhouse with a Southern Pride smoker.
The lobby work, already finished, put coffee and candy in a shared space. The Ace Valley work, just starting, puts a social bar beside a lighted short course. Nearly half of the $17.8 million is going to a course built to be watched as much as played, and it shares a footprint with the old 18-hole Traditional.
Through spring, the clubhouse site will be an active construction zone on the old course, with the Dockside, North Star, Marina II and lobby counters open as usual.
Pequot Lakes holds its 15th annual Santa's Bobbin' Into Town on Saturday, Dec. 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. Activities at North Trailside Park, 31078 Government Drive, run from 4 to 6 p.m. The Mayor's Tree Lighting is at 5:45, the parade starts at 6:00 and fireworks follow at 6:20. The Pequot Lakes Chamber listing also includes a free dinner with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Legion. After the fireworks there's still time for a late dinner at the North Star, where the kitchen is open until 9 p.m.
Lake country changes with the seasons, and so do the places people live near. If you'd like to talk about what the changes at Breezy Point could mean for a lake home or cabin nearby, Mike Kennedy and the team keep close track of this part of the Whitefish-to-Pelican corridor. Start Your Lake Search with us this winter, and you'll be settled in before Ace Valley's lights come on.
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