The Hideout, Couderay WI Wisconsin Vintage Quikoin coin holder Purse, USA Made

Couderay is home to mafia mobster Al Capone's northwoods hideaway, a tourist site called "The Hideout." The Hideout was purchased in the spring of 2010 by the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Tribe after bankruptcy hearings for the previous owners.

The one-time gangster’s house is built of stone with 18-inch thick walls and protected with guard towers, just in case G-men or goons with machine guns inside violin cases come calling.

Chicago mobster Al Capone, local legend says, used the 37-acre lake nearby for seaplanes carrying shipments of bootleg alcohol, before they were loaded onto trucks bound for the speakeasies of Chicago in the days of Prohibition.

Capone’s hideout is 407 acres of wooded property in northern Wisconsin about 150 miles northwest of Wausau.