LoonSong Bed & Breakfast offers something special for everyone. An exceptional peaceful wildness getaway experience, located on beautiful Heart Lake and next to Itasca State Park, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

LoonSong has a wonderful warm and inviting charm. A truly unique opportunity not found anywhere, a secluded, wooded split log home nestled in the wood along Heart Lake.

A grand staircase greets you in the open great-room, which has a fireplace and spectacular views of the pristine lake. An open floor plan gives the inn the feel of a gallery, with pine walls and floor milled from trees harvested on the property after 1995 storm of the century. The warmth from the stone fireplace in the great-room is a wonderful place to curl up and read a book or enjoy pleasant conversation by the fire with a glass of wine.

The inns second floor lofted area wraps around the great staircase and overlooks the dining room and kitchen. Huge windows offer an awesome tree top view, perfect for savoring morning solitude or autumn colors. It is a quiet place to sit on the wicker settee and chairs and past the day away in the sunlight. The second floor commons area is the center for cards and board games, with puzzles on the table and places to be cozy and snuggle on the couch, while watching a movie by the fireplace. A row of windows offers great view of the lake and evenings sunsets.

Good Eating:

Bring a hearty appetite and enjoy breakfast made by Barb. A basket of coffee and muffins is delivering to your room door in around 7 to tide you over until breakfast is served, which is served around 8:30 or 9 in the warm and cozy sunlit dinning area. Sit around the large oak table looking out at the colorful garden, where bird watching is good, and put away scrumptious things like fluffy peach panakokens, homemade sausages, raspberry French toast piled with whip cream and raspberries sprinkled on top, other times eggs, bacon, Barb's caramel sweet rolls, pancake with blueberries, fresh fruit and always lots of rich coffee.

Meet the Cowan's, Innkeepers & Proprietors of LoonSong Bed & Breakfast Inn:

Dennis and Barb share eight grown children and twelve grandchildren, which has made their home something of an informal bed and breakfast for years. Dennis has his own grading & excavating business in the Twin Cities area, Barb is a retired from the youth and education ministry. Dennis, with three yellow Labs named Cody, Max and Abbey, is an avid duck and pheasant hunter. Barb is an artist and decorator, who enjoys sewing, making greeting cards, and buying and refinishing antiques for their store at LoonSong. Both enjoy flower gardening, downhill skiing, fishing, going to auctions, and just being outdoors on bike or foot.

Attractions, Activities and Pleasures:

Guests at LoonSong will find adventures and activities right outside the front door. Join in year-round recreational activities and pleasures, such as sight seeing, hike trails thought mixed forest of virgin pine and hardwoods where white pines and red pines have stood for 100 to 300 years. Or bike on 17 mile park trails. (This may be the most enjoyable and peaceful way to experience Itasca Park) Guest may golf at two nearby golf course, or swim right at our sandy beach, complimentary use of our boats, canoes, kayak, or cast a line, dangle your feet from the dock in our quiet lake. Watch the sun go down and circle around the campfire, topping the day with smores. In winter, there is ice fishing, snow shoeing, cross country skiing and over 550 miles of snowmobile trails accessible from our parking lot.

Guest Rooms And Accommodations:

All four guest rooms have queen size beds piled with pillows and down, private baths with double vanity, showers and tubs, except the handicapped accessible room has a large shower, each room has a refrigerator, with a patios or decks to enjoy the lake view and wooded landscape or to watch the loons on the lake. Each of the four individually designed guest room are furnished with antique and collectibles for a cozy and comfortable feel. The rooms are designed with special accents, indulged with luxurious finishes, including canopy beds with the bedroom & bath share a color scheme.

Individually style gives each room its own personality with unexpected treasures with just the right romantic accents.

The 1906 Romance of the Garden:

Fully handicapped accessible. The Queen size bed is covered with a dainty floral in soft shades blue, gold and green on ivory and piled with pillows. Embellished with charming ruffles and ric rac. The canopy drapes around the picked fence headboard. All to summon up sweet memories of the past. You can seat back in the wicker chair in your room to read a good book or seat on the patio swing outside your door, with the flowering vines trailing around the porch posts you will be able to view the lake and flower gardens right next to you. Romance of the Garden Room is on main level and is fully handicapped accessible.

The 1928 The Classic:

Come be enchanted by the exceptional rich colors of the room, rich in detail and color of wine and gold all blend to create truly inspired evening. The Classic is located on main level with view of the lake. The patio is, right out your sliding door is the perfect place to just sit and let the time of day slip by.

The 1923 Paris Salon:

A magical touch with luxurious look of elegance is the beat way to describe the feeling of the soft green embossed with gold threads bedspreads and matching accent pillows that cover the bed with a princess like canopy over head that really draws the eye. Looking out the windows you have a wonderful view of the lake or step out your deck door to star watch and listen to the call of the loons.

The 1913:

The Masterpiece will open for reservations in the Winter of 2008.

The 1907 Minnesota's Past:

This room will reflect the life style of those who hunted, logged and farmed in the area with old hunting and fishing pictures, old skis, fishing gear, family portrait, farmstead sites and picture  memorabilia decoration around the queen size pine log bed adorned with black wrought iron loon relief and down comforter covered in rich quilted nine patch pattern quilt, topped off with deep plush pillow shams. It's like stepping into an old log cabin, with the log walls and chink between them.  From The Minnesota Past Room’s deck you can seat and enjoy the lake view, wooded landscape, or see the sunsets on the lake.