![]() If you forgot to bring anything, you can get it in town or at the party store next door (which also sells fishing licenses, if you need one). Meditate by the lake, do some yoga under the massive shade tree by the playground, slide down the slide in the lake, and still be able to check your email on the wifi (or don't.you're on vacation after all). ![]() If you're a working professional who needs to GTFO from the city for a little for a mental health retreat, this is your spot for some quiet time at a laid-back pace. From the pine paneling, loud floral print couch, and wild raspberry bushes flourishing behind my cabin, Lagoon Resort was the cutest and most authentically "Houghton Lake" place I have ever had the pleasure of staying at, and very budget-friendly. Remember when you used to come up north to the family cottage a child when everything still smelled and looked like the 1970s? The gang of barefoot kids running around in swimsuits who just met but are instant best friends the whole summer long? The adults hanging out around a bonfire at night after a long day on the pontoon or whacking golf balls around? Nobody needed to lock their doors and there's not an xbox or cable tv hookup in sight because you don't need them you're too busy trying to land a walleye off the dock? That perfect summer experience you thought evaporated with the last recession and/or since been commodified by large resort corporations to be a pathetic, plastic imitation of the summers so fantastic, Kid Rock wrote a song about them? Surprise, folks: It still exists, you just have to search a little harder to find it.
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