AuSable Valley Ramada Inn & Conference Center151 room full-service hotel with holidome, meeting, banquet, and conference facilities for up to 400 people, fitness room, and arcade room. The holidome features an indoor heated swimming pool, whirlpool, game room, children’s pool, and play area surrounded by U-shaped two story hotel room wings. The Crawford Station restaurant and Speakeasy Saloon off the lobby/reception area are operated by the owner.

The land area is approximately 5.59 acres. Original construction in 1972 included a single story office and restaurant/lounge area with a two-story L-shaped wing containing 102 rooms and an outdoor swimming pool. In 1979 a major addition was constructed with a two-story 49 room wing, the holidome banquet rooms and expansion of the restaurant. The last addition was completed in 1991 which involved expanding the front office area and enclosing the restaurant from the dome area. From 1997-1999 the hotel had an exterior facade upgrade including dryvit and complete electrical overhaul.

Grayling is located in the north-central part of the Lower Peninsula, accessed by the main traffic arteries of I-75 and US-27 from the North and South and by M-72 from the East and West. Grayling is the county seat of Crawford County which contains 559 square miles of which most of it is in the AuSable State and Huron Manistee National Forests. The economy is primarily dependent on the service industry and retail trade. With the abundance of national and state forests and parklands, recreational activities abound and the area is a sanctuary for those who seek the great outdoors. The AuSable River is a legendary trout fishery that winds through Grayling and runs east to Lake Huron and is the site of the world’s longest canoe marathon. The Manistee River runs parallel to the AuSable in the opposite direction-west out to Lake Michigan. Grayling is a hotbed of fly-fishing and angling on the edge of some world class streams, rivers, and lakes. Nearby Camp Grayling is the nation’s largest National Guard training site and the largest military installation east of the Mississippi River.