A family restaurant offering a full menu, beer, wine, spirits, keno, pull tabs, groceries, gas, movies, ATM, DNR licenses, propane, bait, lottery and pizza. Open 364 days a year.
You won’t want to miss the magnificent Shrine of the Pines in Baldwin. The “Shrine” was the log home of Baldwin woodcarver Raymond W. Overholzer, and today it houses his incredible lifetime of work. The cabins and furnishings he hand-built on this site were his personal tribute to the state tree, the great white pine. His dinner table was carved from a 700 pound white pine stump, and has a complete matched set of chairs made from white pine roots.
The Blessing of the Bikes is organized by the Para-Dice Motorcycle Club of Grand Rapids. The "Blessing" started in 1972, when four bikes and eight riders gathered at St. Ann Catholic Church in Baldwin and received a blessing for a safe and happy riding season. Today, thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts gather here to have their bikes blessed, and every year it grows larger. Organizers said in 2003 that the crowd had tripled from 2002, and less than half an hour before the Blessing was to begin, Sheriff Bob Hilts received a report from his deputies that, "there are still bikes lined up all the way to the Lake County line," (five miles south of the Baldwin Municipal Airport where the event is held). After opening both the South and North gates to the airport, riders stream in two abreast for a blessing. The proceeds from the event go to Baldwin's St. Ann Senior Nutrition Program.