Troubles at the company that owned LOGE Entrada in Bend are affecting its properties throughout the American West. Further reporting has borne out: LOGE Camps ousted its CEO for misrepresenting a real estate portfolio that is in “significant distress.” Then came a $9.4 million foreclosure lawsuit. A Montana staff has since been rendered jobless and without living accommodations, on short notice.
Which is to say nothing of the repossessed PistenBully.
As evinced by two subsequent, jaw-dropping investigations by the Flathead Beacon in the past week, the Source’s Feb. 3 story about LOGE Entrada’s closure was only the smoke of what has turned out to be a roiling, corporate-wide dumpster fire at LOGE Camps, the holding company that put the kibosh on operations at numerous properties throughout the West. The Flathead Beacon is an award-winning news organization based in Kalispell, Montana.
As summarized by the Beacon, the lawsuit alleges defendants Radify Essex, LOGE GP Holdings LLC, LOGE Holdings LLC and former LOGE CEO Cale Genenbacher failed to pay their debt obligations on two notes after the loans reached full maturity in early 2025. The cumulative amount owed is $9,402,514.90, with interest accruing at a rate of $3,112.34 per day since Oct. 14, 2025, the media outlet reports.
The Flathead Beacon uncovered the extent of the turmoil at LOGE (which is an acronym that is pronounced “lodge” and stands for Live Outside, Go Explore) when it received and verified a trove of internal emails to investigators that mentioned a lack of cashflow and an inability to pay required operating costs. This crisis preceded LOGE closing the historic Izaak Walton Inn at Essex near Glacier National Park in Montana.
More details on the financial issues are available at the Flathead Beacon website.
This article appears in the Source February 26, 2026.
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Such a shame. It appeared to be a good concept and a need for places like Essex, Bend, and other small towns. We never stayed in the one here, but we did in Mt.Shasta which wasn’t a great experience. When you look up the property in Essex Montana there’s no indication that it’s closing, and it gets great reviews.
I hope the owner of Entrada will be able to keep it going as accommodations and not turn the property into housing.