The boat, the Queen II, now nearing its 40 th year of service on West Okoboji Lake, is one of the last physical reminders at Okoboji of how the large glacial lakes of Northwest Iowa came to be a ...

The property's roots date back to 1896, when J.A. Beck constructed a 24-room hotel on the picturesque blue waters of West Okoboji Lake. Although the hotel partially burned, was repaired and then razed ...

A hotel now under construction in Arnolds Park, Iowa, aims to recapture 'classic Okoboji" and pay homage to an iconic hotel of the recent past. The Inn Hotel Okoboji is scheduled to open in summer ...

A historic shorefront resort and convention center in the northwest Iowa resort town of Okoboji is going on the auction block next month, with a twist. The agency auctioning off the Inn at Okoboji ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2018 and updated in 2024. For some families, summers at Okoboji have been a tradition for generations. But if you’ve never made the trip, you’ll ...

OKOBOJI, Iowa (KUOO) - A woman has been jailed after allegedly trying to strangle another woman in Okoboji on Tuesday evening. KUOO Radio says police were called to Lake Okoboji Resort, formerly ...

One of the two suspects arrested in a carjacking earlier this month in Okoboji has been extradited back to Iowa and is now in ...

An Okoboji lakefront home that includes a movie theater and a replica Irish pub set a record for the most expensive home sold in Iowa. The home on West Okoboji Lake was previously owned by Spirit Lake ...

First, there had to be hotels. So the railroads built them. The Orleans Hotel, built by the BCR&N, opened in 1883 on the south shore of Spirit Lake, was described as the finest hotel in the region, ...