Experience the Thunder Lake Lodge
The Lodge is your special place to host a large family or a big group with a spacious great-room, a living room providing an excellent view of the lake, a large dining area, and four bedrooms with enough beds to accommodate 12 or more people. Outside there are a child-friendly swimming area and dock, plenty of space for games and activities, a big fire-ring, and more.
The Thunder Lake Cabin
Your family or small group will enjoy the Cabin with its open living, dining, kitchen area and two bedrooms with full-size double beds. Pull out the sofa bed and you can sleep six. Outdoor spaces include the swimming area and dock, and a separate fire pit where you can relax around an evening campfire.
Enjoy the Great Outdoors
There is so much to see and do when you come to Thunder Lake, or you can just relax and soak up the natural beauties and atmosphere of the Hiawatha National Forest.
Swimming
The community swimming area is great for children and adults: crystal-clear water, sandy bottom with plenty of safe shallows for kids, all with its 270 feet of lake frontage. Lay out on the dock to soak up the warm sunshine.
Boating
Enjoy boating on Thunder Lake. Kayaks and row boats are available for the Lodge and Cabin, and the public boat landing is adjacent to the property: launch your own boat and bring it right over to the dock. Take a cruise around this beautiful lake where over half of the shoreline is state and national forest, with nature at its best.
Fishing
Bring your pole and gear because the fishing is outstanding. Thunder Lake has been called the second-best bluegill lake in the state. Plus, there’s small mouth bass, perch, pike, and more. No guarantees, of course, but you might be surprised at your success!
Take a Look Around
Here are some pictures captured around our place.
What Our Guests Say
We are always working to serve our guests with the best experience. Read what they say.
As always, we enjoyed our time together as a family while at TLL. We feel blessed that we have been going to TLL for decades. We appreciated the recent improvements to the lodge and cabin and enjoyed the improved spaces and features.
Our group had another amazing week at the Lodge last week, we really enjoyed all the improvements you’ve made.
The new grill and kayaks were great. Want to make sure you put us in the books again for next year. Please send me a confirmation of this reservation. Hope all is well in Iowa.
Sincerely,
Our family very much enjoyed Thunder Lake Lodge again like I knew we all would. We even had a toast the very first night to our late father who was the one who started it all for us there and all the wonderful memories.
We would very much like to return again next year . . . Is there any week in July open for both the Lodge and little cabin?
All of the renovations are fantastic!!! 😊 The stove is wonderful….. we all enjoyed using it during our stay. 😊
The stay at TLL has been wonderful so far! We love all of the improvements, especially the new shower in the bathroom off the dining room! We all talked yesterday and decided to reserve both the lodge and the cabin again for next year.
Thank you,
Fishing was good for panfish, but were not as large as other years. We felt that we were a week or two early weather wise for the bigger ones. Over all we were satisfied with the fishing. We’ve been there enough over the years to know the quality fish that swim in the waters. Some years are better than others.
Lodge was clean and nice upon our arrival and well equipped. We lacked for nothing and everything worked well.
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