2025 Crosslake Days Search for the Lost Chili Pepper

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THE LOST CHILI PEPPER HAS BEEN FOUND!

Congratulation to Susan and Camden Petersen of White Bear Lake for finding the Lost Chili Pepper Crosslake Days 2025! 🌶️🔎 They located the chili pepper underneath the new bench across the street in front of the old Judy’s House of Gifts on Clue #2!

We're kicking off Crosslake Days with a fun family and friends activity!  Round up the gang and get outside to search for the Crosslake Days Lost Chili Pepper! Somewhere within the City limits of Crosslake lays, hangs, dangles, or sits the Lost Chili Pepper!  One of three clues will be released daily beginning Thurs. Sept. 25th at 9 a.m. to guide you to its location.  

The pepper will NEVER be located on private residential property, and NO DESTRUCTION or DISASSEMBLY of ANYTHING is necessary to find it.  Please heed and be respectful of this statement.  

Find it, and present it immediately at The Yellow House (36084 CR 66) to receive your prize basket valued at more than $5,100 courtesy of Crosslake Chamber member businesses! 

Clue 1

It’s Crosslake Days and the fun won’t stop, 

Chili simmers, bags fly, deals abundant and music a lot. 

It’s a festival where people come out to play, 

The Crosslake App guides you, come what may. 

Clue 2 

Fall colors and fresh air, 

Crafts and treasures everywhere. 

Explore Crosslake, The Beauty Spot of the state, 

The pepper rests where folks will gravitate.

Download the Crosslake App for quick access to Crosslake Days information, Lost Chili Pepper clues, and event information year-round!

PRIZE LIST:

• 14 Lakes Pub & Brewery: $60 value - sweatshirt
• Andy's Bar & Grill: $60 value - flannel shirt
• Angell Team - Coldwell Banker Realty: $150 value - Wine & Coffee gift basket
• Aunties Hot Honey: $21 value - (1) 6oz. and (1) 12 oz. Hot Honey
• B and B Farmco: $40 value - Soaps and Lotions
• Barstock Liquors: $40 value - Tito's Vodka + hat
• Camp Knutson: $65 value - hoodie and beanie
• Crosslake Ace Hardware: $150 - gift certificates
• Crosslake Coffee: $50 value - Bracelet set and hoodie
• Crosslake Community School: $50 value - Backpack with swag
• Crosslake Drug: $94 value - sweatshirt, local honey and honey container
• Crosslake Fifty Lakes American Legion: $60 value - American Flag
• Crosslake Town Square: $50 - Town Square Bucks Certificate
• Crosslake Veterinary Hospital: $125 value - Pet bed, toys and treats
• Crosswoods Golf Course: $138 value (2) 18-hole greens and shared cart pass
• Crow Wing Kayaks: $300 value - River Trip for 4
• Curious Belongings: $25 gift card
• Dark Horse Brew: $65 value - T-shirt and Mug
• Kysa Corbett - Edward Jones Financial Advisor - Owala Sipper $35 value
• Essentia Health St. Joseph's Crosslake Clinic: $40 value - Gift Basket
• Foggers Pest Control: $350 value - Free pest control service of your choice
• Frey Manufacturing: $80 value - Custom fish boat anchor
• Grand Champion Meats: $94 value - Shaker Bundle and $50 gift card
• Holiday Station Store Crosslake: $25 Gift card
• Key Wellness & Aesthetics: $119 value - Aqua Facial
• Kicks on Route 66: $50 value - (2) Color your own shirt kit
• Lake Days Marine: $100 value - Hats, golf balls, & coffee tumblers
• Lakes Central Insurance: $50 value - Cooler bag and BBQ utensil set
• Larson Group Real Estate/Keller Williams Realty Professionals: $70 value - Tervis Tumblers & swag 
• Manhattan's: $50 Gift Card
• Marine Max - Crosslake: - $450 value - Scout surfboard
• Maucieri's: $150 value - Gift and Wine Basket
• MN Roots: $50 value - Sweatshirt
• Moonlite Bay Family Restaurant & Bar: $100 value - Sweatshirt and $50 gift card
• National Loon Center: $30 value - Hat 
• Northern MN Railroad Heritage Assn.: $50 gift certificate - Moonlite Bay
• Optimal Yardscapes: $300 off landscaping project voucher
• Ox Lake Tavern: $50 value - sweatshirt
• Patrick's Cedar Chest: $100 value - $25 Gift Card, Sweatshirt, Hat
• Pequot Lakes Community Education: $60 value - 4pack of GLAPA tickets
• Pine Peaks Restaurant & Gifts: $46 value - $20 Gift Card, Wild Rice and Loon Tune
• Pine Peaks Lodge & Suites: $200 value - (1) Night Stay in Any Style Room
• Platinum Powersports: $60 value - Can koozies & hoodie
• Rafferty's Pizza Crosslake: $40 Gift Card
• Riverside Tavern: $50 Gift Card
• Shoppe 218: $66 value - $10 gift card and sweatshirt
• Squirrelly Mama: $82 value - $20 gift card and gift basket
• The Log Church: $40 value - 2 TLC Mugs and T-shirt
• The North Salon: $ 25 value - cap
• The Wharf: $50 value - sweatshirt
• The Yellow House: $50 value - sweatshirt
• Therapie Massage - Ronda Wohl: $150 value gift certificate
• UpNorth Social: $25 Gift Card
• Wes Hanson Builders: $130 value - Wearable blanket, all weather jacket and hats
• Whistling Wolf Mini Golf: $24 value - 2 rounds of Haunted or Regular Mini Golf
• Whitefish Lodge & Suites: $50 value - sweatshirt
• Wing Wellness PLLC: $125 value - Custom Facial
• Zorbaz Crozzlake: $60 value - sweatshirt

The 2024 Crosslake Days Chili pepper was found by Sam and Wendy Coward of Crosslake, next to a charred piece of wood at the new Pine River Overlook Park!