Welcome
The Inn at the Rustic Gate is a place of welcome and calm for every season. We invite our guests to take a step back from their every day lives, to return to nature, to peace and quiet, and to get in touch once again with what feeds their soul.
Just seven miles from Big Rapids, situated on 150 acres of woodlands, wetlands, rollowing meadows, and a private pond, the
Inn at the Rustic Gate is a sanctuary, a retreat, a meeting place, and a gateway to the truest aspects of ourselves.
This Month from the Innkeepers
SPRING 2010
THE INCREDIBLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
Spring has arrived but it seems like we leap-frogged ahead several months to summer as we have been reveling in seventy and even eighty degree days for well over a week now. It seems like nature has found the fast forward button on the calendar and is playing some sort of cosmic trick on us. It has felt wonderful though to shed the layers of winter clothing and to move around more freely in our bodies. In general people just seem happier, lighter in spirit, and somewhat incredulous about this new found warmth which comes to us on the heels of an already milder than usual winter season. It has prompted conversations about everything from global warming to concern for the fruit growers in our region who stand to lose their crops if these unusually hot days are followed by any sort of a freeze.
In the meantime we are being kept company by some early arrivals from robins and red-winged blackbirds, Canadian geese, sand hill cranes and the spring peeper frogs. It is a virtual symphony of wildlife on our land. In addition to these auditory delights there are feasts for our eyes with the emergence of green, and the blossoming of the forsythia bushes, the red bed tree and spring bulbs.
