Lev Stryker, the co-owner of Cog Wild, recently stood under the tall stand of ponderosas in front of his bicycle guide company’s office at the LOGE Entrada motel campus, pointing out the perch of a great horned owl.
“There’s three of them in there,” Stryker said. “At night they hoot to each other.”
Stryker will miss the owls, along with the ideal digs for Cog Wild, which has called the motel complex home since 2020. The outdoor bicycle shuttle and guide company will have to relocate its storage shed, office equipment and numerous vans by Feb. 11 — through no fault of its own.
That’s when Cog Wild’s subtenant agreement with LOGE Entrada will expire, due to the latter’s failure to pay rent to its landlord, the Bend-based Entrada Lodge, Inc. A record search by the Source also uncovered that LOGE Camps has owed Deschutes County nearly $5,000 in unpaid property taxes since July.
LOGE Camps, headquartered in North Bend, Washington, has specialized in locating and renovating motels into outdoor-adventure lodgings since September 2017.
Presently, LOGE operates seven locations throughout Washington, Montana, Colorado and Westport, Oregon.
LOGE Camps will pack up its Entrada location for failure to pay several months of rent to Entrada Lodge, Inc., the company that owns the seven buildings and the 22 acres on which the LOGE has operated since summer 2018.
Entrada Lodge is owned by longtime Bend motel operator and landowner Brett Evert, who also possesses 22 acres abutting the Entrada property that Holt Homes is developing into subdivisions known as The Lodges at Bachelor View and LBV West.
A Jan. 25 visit to LOGE Entrada saw the café open yet empty — absent of even an immediate employee, who presumably could be summoned by calling a phone number printed on a placard near the cash rap. A visit to the LOGE website on Jan. 30 didn’t allow reservations for the Bend location. By Feb. 2, any mention of LOGE Entrada had been wiped from the parent website.
The shuttering of LOGE (pronounced lodge) at its Century Drive spot — a straight 20-minute drive to Mt. Bachelor — was surprising to many; LOGE invited guests to book reservations at its Entrada location as recently as Dec. 29, according to the company’s Instagram page. The closure was confirmed by a reservation receptionist on Feb. 2 and by Evert, whose parents originally built the 79-guest-room motel more than 50 years ago.
A LOGE manager, who was on site during a subsequent visit on Feb. 2, said he was only authorized to mention the Feb. 11 closure and that LOGE representatives would issue a press release in the coming weeks. A LOGE Camps newsletter on Feb. 3 advertises company-wide room rates beginning at $90 per night.
Brett Evert’s parents built the Entrada Motel in 1970 and opened it for business in 1972. Reached by phone, Evert said the property will remain a motel. During the winter closure, his company Entrada Lodge, Inc., will address deferred maintenance on the property.
Evert said the eviction was a difficult decision because LOGE had long been an ideal renter. Initially signed to a three-year lease, LOGE Camps had invested $1 million into the property. LOGE added a spa, a stage for music and accommodated a dirt pump track. A bike tool library was stationed nearby and local mountain bikers mingle with motel guests along the complex’s walkways and in the Entrada café and taproom or at the pool.
In 2021, things were looking good. LOGE signed a five-year lease with Entrada Lodge.
“I want to be very complimentary of LOGE,” he added. “They were wonderful tenants.”
Things changed in 2025.
In January of that year, LOGE Camps partnered with Schulte Hospitality Group, a hotel management company based in Kentucky. In a press release published at the time, LOGE co-founder and then-CEO Cale Genenbacher told Hospitalitynet.org that by combining LOGE’s passion for delivering “memorable, nature-inspired experiences with SHG’s operational prowess, we are confident that this new partnership will unlock new opportunities and further solidify LOGE Camps as premier destinations for travelers seeking adventure and exploration.”
The Source emailed Genenbacher (who resigned in November 2025, according to reporting from the Flathead Beacon) questions regarding whether that partnership negatively affected operations in Bend. We also asked how many local full- and part-time workers were cut, along with partners like Cog Wild. Was the Northwest’s snow drought a factor? Neither Genebacher, nor LOGE Camps, had responded by press time.
Occupancy tabulations by Visit Bend show that monthly rates have recovered since the Covid-19 pandemic, with summer months in 2025 showing rates hovering around 70%. From July 1 to Dec. 31, occupancy has edged up, at 65.3% versus 64.6% for the same period year, according to Visit Bend. (Visit Bend offers a drove of data here and will update winter occupancy rates as they become available.)
LOGE’s relationship with Entrada Lodge hit choppy water six months after that partnership. That’s when LOGE Entrada missed several months of rent, citing cash flow issues as the company expanded throughout the country, Evert said. By October, LOGE was back in the clear yet skipped rent in November. Evert said he encouraged LOGE to try to right the ship and ride out the rest of the lease, which ends Feb. 11, the eight-year anniversary of their tenancy on the property. LOGE missed those subsequent payments as well.
LOGE Camps experienced problems before the January 2025 partnership, as well. In late 2023, LOGE Camps was the subject of a cyber-attack that compromised the personal information of employees and hotel guests and resulted in a class action suit. It’s not clear whether that breach affected LOGE Entrada guests and employees. The class-action is still winding its way through court. In January 2026, the City of Asheville, North Carolina, sued a partner of LOGE Camps for more than $28,000 in back taxes and for neglecting a hotel property it had purchased for $6 million in 2023 yet hadn’t renovated nor re-opened.
Lev Stryker, Cog Wild’s co-owner, said he’s in talks with potential new digs for his company, hopefully on Bend’s west side. But he’ll miss his current supreme setting, the buzz of lodgers and mountain bikers, and, of course, the great horned owls.
“We’re going to have to adjust our operations,” Stryker said, which include fat-biking tours and the Meissner Bus. Cog Wild’s warm-weather services ramp up April 1. “But being on the edge of the forest — that’s a huge opportunity loss for Cog Wild.”
This article appears in the Source February 5, 2026.
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This site is getting crowded out by residential development, I hope thy find a better location.