Challenging Winter? Says Who?

Challenging winter? Says who?

We were excited to hear that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this year, since we are all looking forward to at least six more weeks of winter. Typically, winter brings a lot of excitement to Seeley Lake with a wide array of outdoor activities to choose from, but this year, we’re off to a slow start. The hiking trails at Placid Lake are seeing more activity than the ski area. And that’s just wrong...

My Plea to Punxsutawney Phil

Punxsutawney Phil, you’ve failed us again.  This winter has been a brutal one. Arctic blasts, a polar vortex, freezing winds—I can’t take it anymore. Here I was, like so many others, hoping, praying, that you somehow wouldn’t see your shadow on February 2nd and would grant us early spring. Instead, you crawled back into your burrow for another six weeks, leaving the rest of us to suffer the consequences. How naive of me to think that you—a small…

Pesky Punxsutawney Phil says more winter

Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, dawned with a mix of tradition, folklore and cold-weather curiosity as Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous weather prognosticating groundhog, emerged at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and saw his shadow.