Lots of Lakes Region pilots get misty about the airport and thinking of the supreme effort put forth by the Horn family to get it there.
Planes still "shoot" the runway, and it may be possible to land a plane there today-though it's
still uphill
)
Here's a photo of the tiedown area in its "Happy Skies" days:
Atop the red and white pole at the extreme right is the airport's beacon. It appears on many charts of the Lake Region as "flashing green and white".