We are Jon & Mollie. We met more than 30 years ago right here on Pike Bay, where our lake cabin is located. You could say that our future on Gull Lake was just meant to be. We built the current lake place in 2022.
Jon has spent time here on Gull Lake (Pike Bay), every summer, since he was young. Being that his parents had 8 kids, having a place to go within a few hours of home was ideal and more economical. Aside from that, it was really the perfect place to make many happy family memories.
The family initially had a time-share type cabin and that is where we met, 34 years ago. Soon after, they purchased the property where the cabin now resides. We have been bringing our 2 daughters and friends up with us for years. We were lucky enough to get the opportunity to purchase the cabin in 2016. We remodeled it on our own and it was quite cute and charming, but we realized that there was more than just the Summer Season to do things in the Brainerd Lakes Area. There is honestly something for everyone in every season. We decided that we wanted to be able to visit year-round, as the other cabin was not 4 season. Thus, we took down the cabin and built our beautiful, and already well-loved, home away from home. We try to spend as much time here as we can, but we also rent it out just a handful of times a year because we want to share our little slice of heaven with others and hope that they can make many lake memories of their own. In addition, we look forward to our now adult daughters bringing their own families up someday.