Anybody looking for a convenient hunting lodge?

Chicago mobster Al Capone’s Wis. hideout for sale

It’s big, it’s cool, and it’s waaaaay up nort’.

WAUSAU, Wis. – The buyer of a scenic property in northern Wisconsin will get more than just its bar and restaurant: They’ll have a former hideout of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

The 407-acre wooded site, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch-thick walls, will soon go on the auction block at a starting bid of $2.6 million.

Guard towers. You know what that means: permanent deer stands!

The bank that foreclosed on the land near Couderay, about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis, said Capone owned it in the late 1920s and early 1930s during Prohibition. Local legend claims that shipments of bootlegged alcohol were flown in on planes that landed on the property’s 37-acre lake, then loaded onto trucks bound for Chicago.

“He spent a lot of time there,” Chippewa Valley Bank Vice President Joe Kinnear said. “Whether it was for getting whiskey out of Canada or whoever knows. It is an incredible property.”

Couderay is here:

Not a whole lot up there. Trees. Deer. Probably the stray bear. Good hiking and fishing, I’ll bet.

The property was more recently used as a tourist attraction. It includes Capone’s two-story stone home with a massive fireplace, two guard towers — reportedly manned with machine guns whenever Capone visited — a caretakers residence and other outbuildings.

Kinnear said the bar on the property was built from what was originally Capone’s eight-stall garage and still includes some portholes built to shoot through.

An absolute steal at $2.6 million, if you’ve got $2.6 million lying around. Or if you can leverage it without going too far into the red. Some tourist shop will buy it, I’m betting. It just better not be the State of Wisconsin.