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Article: Saddle up for Michigan's wild west: Double JJ Ranch goes beyond the ordinary dude ranch with new water park
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 26, 2006
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ROTHBURY, Mich. -- The folks at the Double JJ Ranch & Golf Resort
in wild western Michigan rope you in with the tagline "Outside the
Ordinary."mmmmmmmmmmmm Where do I sign up? mmmmmmmmmm My passport is
stamped United States of Unusual. And the Double JJ does not
disappoint.
The 2,000-acre resort north of Muskegon celebrates its 70th
anniversary next year. It features heated log cabins, hotel rooms,
horses, three lakes and a natural cranberry bog.
The resort opened as the Jack & Jill Ranch and has been a getaway
for generations of Chicagoans, including George "Cheers" Wendt. Late
country singer Waylon Jennings stopped at the Double JJ to get off
the road. I'm a dude who had never heard of ...