About Us

Our Story

Maletzke’s Lake Alva Resort is nestled amongst the beauty of northern pines on a crystal clear top-rated 220 acre lake. Our beautiful sandy beach makes it a north woods vacation your family will never forget.

The up north family vacation was common in the old days with many resorts to choose from. Decades of progress has changed that.

Our resort is one of the great places that is still left to spend a week together as a family.

The resort was founded in the late 40’s by Wally & Myrtle Maletzke. The cottages were built one by one as time and funds were available. Uncle Wally & Myrtle moved from Milwaukee to Harshaw full time. Wally was the barber in Lake Tomahawk and everyone knew him.

They ran the resort together until Wally passed in the late 50s. Myrtle continued for the next 15 years – running all 5 cottages, house, 30 acres and 300′ lake frontage.

In the early 70’s, the resort was sold off into 3 parcels – the center parcel (the House, Oaks and Pines) continued to run as a resort for the next 25 years under ownership of Wistrom’s & Muslof’s.

Our family continued to rent one week each year.

In 1997, Carol and I bought two cottages back. What a great day! In 2002, we bought the resort back and have run it since.

For so many of us it’s the greatest place on earth.  We will do our best for you. It will be just as it always was — “A place to share”.

Thank you for all the memories.

Mark & Carol, Michael, Katie, and Markie Maletzke

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