About Us

In 1961 Roy & Mary Grayhek of Spokane decided to purchase property at Priest Lake, Idaho. The family camped at Indian Creek Camp Ground just once and fell in love with the quiet beauty of the lake and wanted to make it a permanent vacation spot.

After 5 years of sleeping in tents on their property, this blue collar family saved enough money and collected enough freebie building supplies to start building a small cabin for a family of nine (mom, dad and 7 kids).

In the decades to follow the family grew and grew. In 2005 Roy & Mary along with their 7 grown children decided that before the 40 year old cabin bust at the seams and ends up in the lake, they should rebuild. Some items were salvaged to use in the new cabin and the rest was sadly, but without regret, burnt to the ground.

The following spring, the new cabin was under construction and just over one year later completed. The family that started as a family of 9 is now more than quadrupled and still growing.

We have so many wonderful memories of our time in the original cabin and are looking forward to many more with the new cabin.

In ancient times the northernmost region of the habitable world-hence any distant, unknown or mysterious land.

In the summer of 1922 famous silent screen actress, Nell Shipman, opened a production studio in Minnehaha Park in North Spokane and started filming her movie "Grub Stake". She then moved her production team to Lionshead Lodge, Priest Lake, Idaho to complete the movie. After 2 1/2 years of filming in Idaho Miss Shipman said this about Priest Lake...

"Did you ever come to a place and instantly recognize it as your Ultima Thule, the one spot in all God's world where you belonged, where your roots could go deep into the soil which would forever nourish you; Where inspiration and spiritual blessing welled up from the earth to top the tallest tamarack, spread to the encasing bowl of sky, return on every waterway to feed you everlastingly? Such a spot, so it seemed to me, was Priest Lake, in Idaho."