Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

— Victor Hugo

For Relaxing

Black Hawk Lodge is a haven of peace and tranquility, crafted on a wooded ridge-top with stunning views. It’s the perfect retreat if you love being surrounded by glorious nature. You can sit back under a canopy of oaks reading a good book or enjoying a favorite beverage, or you can explore our nearby mile-long vineyard hiking trail. Or you can head into close-by historic Fountain City, with its many quaint shops and restaurants.

Gather round in the great room with its central fireplace flooding the space with warmth and magical light. Find a cozy corner to snuggle with a book, or watch as the deck bird feeders become a social gathering place for the rainbow of songbirds making their homes in this wild terrain..

Features & Practicalities

The expansive fully-equipped custom kitchen has everything needed for cooking and entertaining, including electric range and oven, microwave, drip coffee pot, and much more. We keep basics such as dish soap, paper towels, spices, sugar and coffee filters on hand, and your morning’s eggs, oatmeal, juice, coffee and tea are on us. Our Lodge has a spacious great room which is equipped with flat screen TV, DVD player, and Wi-Fi. And we provide an ample selection of games and DVD’s.

  • Expansive kitchen and great room
  • Four bedrooms with five beds
  • Two decks with forty-mile views of the Mississippi River valley
  • Large fireplace and two freestanding fireplace stoves.
  • Spa bath and two large walk-in showers, with three full bathrooms
  • Close access to vineyard deep woods hiking trail
  • Roomy on-site parking area
  • Complimentary Seven Hawks Vineyards wines
  • Central air conditioning
  • Any-day arrival and departure
  • Surrounded by 17.000 grape vines and old growth woods wilderness

On the Main Level

You’ll enjoy a full bathroom, great room, kitchen, two bedrooms, and stairs leading up to master suite. The entry deck features a large picnic table, lounge chairs, and a gas grill for outdoor cooking. This two-tiered deck with wide pergola is perfect for sitting back with a beverage while watching the sun set behind the Minnesota bluffs. Travel with friends, or enjoy a couple’s weekend surrounded by our very large Seven Hawks vineyards.

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On The Upper Level

The master suite features a king bed and opens out to its own private deck. The master bath includes a large walk-in shower with native limestone bench seat, and waterfall shower head. It is stocked with towels, robes, hair dryer, and toiletries.

Thanks again for the wonderful time in your ‘magical tree house’! We had a blast.

— South St. Paul, MN

About the Osprey Raptor

The Black Hawk that lends its name to this special retreat is a large, bulky raptor with very broad wings, short tail, and long legs.

They often hunt along stream banks, wading into water and catching fish, frogs, and other small creatures. Too bad they are summer-only migratory visitors to the southwest United States. But you can see them in your dreams here on the Bluff, riding the wind out over the Mississippi’s channels.

Black Hawks build a platform nest of sticks fifteen feet to one hundred feet above the ground in trees. Nests are often reused and tend to grow bigger with each use. They lay one to three whitish eggs mottled with brown markings.

Black Hawks are often seen soaring, with occasional lazy wing flaps. It is also common to find these hawks perched on a tree limb rather than flying high in search of prey. With a breath- taking talon-touching aerial courtship display, these great raptors are an amazing sight at mating season, calling to each other across the skies with a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink.

Green Sustainable & Fantastic

Black hawk Lodge has been imagined and crafted to be extremely energy-efficient, with minimal impact on its ruggedly wild site. The Lodge’s interior features windows large and small to connect you to the surrounding landscape, while streaming natural light throughout its solid and comfortable interior spaces.

Seven Hawks Vineyard & Winery

Our vineyards are planted with almost 17,000 northern hybrid grape vines, making us one of the largest vineyards in the Upper Midwest. All of our grapes are hand-pruned, hand-tended, and hand-harvested, and all of our wines are estate-grown and estate- bottled, and waiting for you to taste when you visit Coopers Cottage, or when you visit our tasting room, where tastings of our wines are always FREE!