Generations
Made for families
The lodge that taught your parents to fish is ready to teach your kids. Safe, shallow shorelines and a whole island to roam.
A Century on the Water · 1926–2026
Your family's place on Lake of the Woods.
A wilderness island lodge run by the same family for a hundred years — eight log cottages, world-class fishing, and the kind of summers you come back for your whole life.
Sabaskong Bay, Ontario
Seven wooded acres, all your own — twelve miles from the nearest road.
King Island sits alone in the sheltered waters of Sabaskong Bay, on the Ontario side of Lake of the Woods. There's no highway here and no crowd — just a boat ride out from Nestor Falls to an island the Hanson family has welcomed anglers and their families to since 1926.
Days are measured in fish landed, shore lunches, and the sound of loons across still water. It's the same lake three and four generations have grown up on — and it still feels like a secret.
1926Family-run since
8Log cottages
14,000+Islands to explore
50"+Trophy muskie water
The Fishing
Some of the most productive water in North America.
Lake of the Woods is the second-largest inland lake in Ontario — 951,300 acres of reefs, weed lines and rocky points that grow big fish. Walleye by the boatload for the frying pan, smallmouth on every point, and muskie in the 40–50-inch class with real shots at a fifty.
Bring your own boat or rent one of ours. Either way, you'll fish water that's been treating this family's guests well for a hundred years.
The Cabins
Log cottages built between 1926 and 1930 — and cared for ever since.
Eight spacious cottages ring the perimeter of the island, each with its own stretch of shoreline, screened porch, full kitchen and view of the water. They've been quietly modernized over the decades, but the log walls, wood stoves and lake-cabin feel are exactly as they should be.
Wake to mist on the bay, coffee on the porch, and your boat waiting at the dock.
More Than Fishing
A whole island to call home for a week.
Kids chasing frogs, eagles overhead, a shore lunch that tastes better than anything back home. King Island is built for families.
Wildlife
Wild neighbours
Bald eagles, loons calling at dusk, deer on the shoreline and ducklings in the reeds. The bay is alive from ice-out to fall.
Community
Gather at the lodge
The log lodge — walls lined with photos going back to the twenties — is where the day's stories get told and the fish get measured.
Our Story · Since 1926
Four generations. One island. A hundred summers.
Kendall Hanson built the first cabins on King Island in 1926. In the century since, the family added the Hideaway on Crow Lake, ran fly-in outpost camps deep in the bush, and welcomed thousands of families back year after year — many now on their third and fourth generation of visits.
We're still here, still family-run, still committed to this water and the people who love it.
Coming From the U.S.
Closer than you think — we'll help you cross.
Most of our guests drive up from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and beyond. It's an easy trip: cross the border at International Falls / Fort Frances, follow Highway 71 to Nestor Falls, and we'll meet you at the landing for the boat ride out.
Our Getting Here guide walks you through passports, your Ontario fishing licence, and what you can (and can't) bring across the line — so the only thing you're thinking about is the first cast.
Book Your Week
The 2026 season is our 100th. Come be part of it.
Cottages book up fast for prime weeks in summer. Tell us your dates and party size and we'll take care of the rest.