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Cliffside Resort started out as a vacation home for the Tylka
family. Parents Walter and Angeline, originally from Poland, then
Chicago, had a cottage built in the style of their homeland,
employing Polish craftsmen to replicate the peaked gables,
scalloped edging and interior wood carvings common to the mountain
cabins of their southern Poland. In 1981, the Tylkas decided to
share their little slice of paradise with visitors, building a
resort into the sandstone cliff adjacent to their home. The resort
opened on July 4th.
Today, the original cottage still serves as the family home, with
son Mark joining his parents in running the resort. Words like
warm, welcoming, hard-working and meticulous show up often in guest
reviews of the Tylkas. It’s becoming so rare these days for a
resort to be owned and still operated by the original family, and
that emotional connection to the property makes all the difference
in the world. Visitors from as close by as Chicago and as far away
as Europe feel like extended family when they’re here.
The main level of the family home has been converted to the office
lobby which is where you’ll check in, and the lower level with
large commercial-style kitchen is a popular gathering place for
family reunions and groups of friends. And, yes, the Tylkas still
live upstairs. After all, they love this vacation setting as much
now as they did when they first vacationed in the Dells over 45
years ago.
