1/9/2024 0 Comments Boundary waters closed![]() If you are a newcomer to camping, or even an experienced backpacker, but not canoe camper, consider camping outside of the BWCAW on one of the 463 backcountry sites on the Forest, or one of our free rustic campgrounds. Trails are not well marked, if they are marked at all. Read the BWCAW Trip Planning Guide and Know Before You Go brochureīe aware tht wilderness has inherent dangers, and is a primitive setting where you meet nature on its own terms. ![]() Prior to reserving your permit, please review the following to ensure a wilderness trip is right for you: We need your help treading lightly on the Wilderness to keep it full of solitude and pristine for future visitors like you. High visitation translates to the potential for impacts to natural resources. The BWCA Wilderness is one of the most visited wilderness areas in the country. Plan ahead for the BWCAW! Visitors can find solitude, adventure, risk, and excitement but the trip planning begins months before entering the Wilderness. This network of connecting waterbodies provides unique opportunities for long distance travel by watercraft-a rare experience within the continental United States. The sculpting of the landscape by powerful glaciers over an immense period of time has left behind a variety of landforms and rocks as well as thousands of lakes and streams, interspersed with islands. The BWCAW is the only large temperate lake-land wilderness in the National Wilderness Preservation System and is renowned for its water-based recreational opportunities. The BWCAW contains over 1,200 miles of canoe routes, 12 hiking trails and over 2,000 designated campsites. The BWCAW is composed of lakes, islands, rocky outcrops and forest. The BWCAW extends nearly 150 miles along the International Boundary, adjacent to Canada’s Quetico and La Verendrye Provincial Parks, is bordered on the west by Voyageurs National Park, and by Grand Portage National Monument to the east. Spotlights Boundary Waters Canoe Area WildernessĮstablished in 1964 as Federally Designated Wilderness (pdf), the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is over one million acres of rugged and remote boreal forest in the northern third of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota. In the winter, visit current ski trail conditions. Part of the Sturgeon River Trail is closed indefinitely. This area was involved in the Greenwood Fire of 2021, so it is recommended to stay on campground roads and sites as weakened trees may pose hazards in the surrounding area.Ĭlosed for site rehabilitation after the 2021 Greenwood Fire. Open, except indefinite closure of part of the Sturgeon River Trail. John Ek Fire Area Campsite Status (pdf) - Closed campsite at Elton Lake.Some roads, trails, wilderness camps and portages across the Forest are washed out or flooded. Flooding Updates (html)- We are experiencing high water levels and flooding, creating unpredictable and hazardous situations for boaters, drivers and hikers.Pagami Creek Fire Updates (html)- Closed campsites at Lake Three & Isabella Lake, Parent Lake.Hike within your abilities, assume risk, and remember it is a wilderness. There are still a few pockets of blowdown, and a dozen or so large trees that still need to be cleared but hikers can easily maneuver around them. The main path of the the tornado damage has now been cleared off the Border Route Trail. A tornado swept through the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness approximately one-mile west of the Clearwater to Mountain Portage last fall.
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