Mt. Bachelor to Helm Motel Previously Known as LOGE Entrada

You can’t move a mountain, as it were. But sometimes, the mountain moves closer to you.

Mt. Bachelor has signed a lease agreement with Entrada Lodge, the Century Drive motel previously known as LOGE Entrada. Rebranding the property Trailhead Lodge, Mt. Bachelor will begin accepting reservations for summer 2026, according to a release.

That 79-guest-room motel complex, located on Century Drive west of Bend, had previously been rented by LOGE Camps, a Washington-based hotel chain. But that company was effectively evicted Feb. 11, the Source reported, for several months of back rent.

In recent months, LOGE Camps has been dealing with a CEO ousted for shady business practices, a resultant lawsuit, and the shuttering of seven properties in four states. It’s likely the outdoorsy hotel company is winding its way toward bankruptcy, according to an investigation by the Flathead Beacon.

Talking by phone with the Source, Brett Evert, the president and majority owner of Entrada Lodge Inc., confirmed the Mt. Bachelor lease agreement, which The Bulletin had erroneously reported as a purchase. Evert and John Merriman, the ski operator’s president, hashed out the deal in the months since LOGE’s Feb. 11 departure.

“Mt. Bachelor expressed that they were interested in taking over the property so they could be in the hotel business, but also to do a lot of recreational activities that LOGE was doing,” Evert said.
Evert was effusive about the new tenant. Mt. Bachelor and the Entrada Motel (as it was known prior to the LOGE tenancy) have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship — residing just 20 minutes from each other on the highway — since Evert’s parents opened the seven-building motel property on 22 acres in 1972. This arrangement would make the longstanding relationship a real-deal business one.

“As the owners of the property, we’re very excited to have Mt. Bachelor as our tenant, and we anticipate them being very successful,” Evert said.

Evert declined to specify the duration of Mt. Bachelor’s lease, nor talk about other details, such as the monthly rent bill.

It’s not immediately clear whether Cog Wild, the outdoor bicycle shuttle and guide company, will be welcomed back to its digs at the Entrada Lodge property, where it had maintained its headquarters since 2020. Cog Wild was forced to vacate, through no fault of its own, when LOGE Camps’ lease was not renewed. Mt. Bachelor didn’t respond to questions by press time; a Cog Wild owner said she wasn’t able to comment.

The Entrada Lodge will be rebranded the Trailhead Lodge by Mt. Bachelor, the seven-building motel’s new tenant. Credit: Peter Madsen

When LOGE Camps moved into the property in summer 2018, Evert’s company had granted them an initial three-year lease and later offered a longer lease for five years. In summer 2025, the Washington company began missing rent payments, citing company-wide cash flows, Evert told the Source in February.

LOGE Camps still hasn’t paid Evert’s company the several months of back rent it owes from late 2025 and early 2026, Evert said.

And, with the rebrand, people can forever cease stumbling on the exact pronunciation of “LOGE” — which, for once and for all, was lodge.

“Mt. Bachelor has been a wonderful asset to Central Oregon,” Evert said. “And we’re very happy to see them step into the lodging business.”