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Dedicated to promoting tourism and economic development in Wellston, Mi!
Wellston Area News:
Our Misson Statement
We have a dream for our wonderful community! Most of the Excel Wellston board members have grown up in this area. We have fallen in love with Wellston and all that living here has to offer us and our children. As we have developed into adults we have also evolved into business owners. Having experienced the hardship that can accompany owning a business in a rural area, we can appreciate the amount of hard work, passion, and conviction it requires to be successful. Now that we have established ourselves and created deep roots in our community, it's time to turn our efforts to assist our community to flourish. Our dream is to create and enhance business development in Wellston. Tourism is one way to accomplish this goal. Bringing revenues to our area and encouraging local spending is one way to increase business, provide employment, and keep local money, local. Creating new and enhancing old business is a key element in a successful, flourishing community. Businesses bring employment. Our area lacks employment and many of our residents find themselves traveling 30-50 miles one way for work. Imagine a fully developed community with more employment options! Cutting travel time will additionally create more family time!
The mission is NOT to change Wellston. We would like to remain a tight knit community. We would like to take our abandoned buildings, homes, and run down parts of our town and turn them into something wonderful, something to be proud of. We plan to collaborate with existing organizations as we really all have the same goal in mind, bettering our community! If we can work together and set aside our differences, we can make some amazing changes that will impact many generations to come.
Will you help us?
Spring Craft Show @ The Woods Event Center
for reservations contact us at
admin@excelwellston.com or call 231-510-1799
North Country Trail Run dates set for 2022
The North Country Trail Run organizers have set the dates for 21st Annual race. The race will occur on August 27th & 28th, 2022. Registration is already taking place and lodging close to the race is already filling up quickly due to the 2020 cancellation. To register for the race, visit https://northcountrytrailrun.com/ The Wellston Area cannot wait for your return!
Quarterly Newsletter Sign Up!
If you'd like to sign up for the Quarterly Newsletter, please email us with "NEWSLETTER" in the subject and we will add you to our mailing list. The Newsletter shall serve as a source for information on upcoming events and activities, local news, current projects and issues we are facing in our community. If you do not have internet and wish to have a paper copy of the newsletter simply contact us by mail at P.O. Box 275. Wellston, Mi 49689
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Excel Wellston Member Information Center
Welcome to Excel Wellston!
We are a newly formed Non-Profit Organization working with area businesses to improve travel related spending and economic development in our area.
As you’re aware, tourism related spending creates vital revenues for existing business and increases interest in prospective new business. We would like to improve upon the current situation and encourage more travel to our area, especially during slower travel months. We feel that Wellston lacks a recognizable major event that can be associated with the area. With the support of our community, we hope to create/re-establish events that will put us back on the map.
We also feel that our area lacks activities for youth. Guests frequently travel outside of Wellston to seek out additional activities for their families. This computes to a large loss of revenues to our area. We are happy to provide accommodations to guests traveling to activities outside of our area but to take advantage of all tourism spending, we need to be hosting some of these activities locally. By providing activities for our area's youth, we hope to encourage a sense of friendship and community.
We hope you'll join us as we have a lot of fun activities and projects that matter underway!
Below, you'll find membership options and application forms. Please help to financially support this organization as the entire community stands to reap the rewards!
Be sure to check out our quarterly newsletter "The Wellston Window" revived from the 80's!
Thank you for visiting our website and we hope you'll join our team!
Alicia Cook
Executive Director