Lighthouse, Tree House, Tiny House: One-of-a-kind Lodgings Kids Love

All aboard! For more than half a century, this historic inn was a rooming house for railroad workers on the Milwaukee Road, as it was known. Today its seven rooms and four caboose suites (the best bet for families) comprise a kid-friendly bed-and-breakfast, loaded with artifacts and railroad memorabilia from a bygone era, and furnished in period antiques. Kids will love sleeping in the caboose loft and playing in the gazebo. The inn’s sitting room is a great place to read a book beside the woodstove before feasting on a delicious home-cooked breakfast of waffles or pancakes. The location is perfect for train buffs, too — right across the tracks is a restored depot and railyard interpretive trail.

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