VisitEly budget made whole

It took nearly six months, but VisitEly will get what it was looking for in funding from the Ely Area Lodging Tax Board.

Action Monday by the board gave VisitEly, also known as the Ely Tourism Bureau, the final third of the $315,000 the organization had sought to market the region in 2026.

Members also indicated they’d grant the Ely Chamber of Commerce and the city of Ely the funds those entities had requested to respectively staff and maintain the new trailhead facility on the city’s west end.