Earlier this spring a drive on the Gunflint Trail would have caused alarm in some tree huggers. A bunch of the younger pine trees past the turn off for Gunflint Lake looked like they had been burned in a forest …
This year three past Voyageur Crew members will be making an epic Voyage. Tessa Olson is joining Adam Maxwell and Jake Bendel this time, our first female on one of these big journeys. We’re super excited for them as they …
It’s that time of the summer in Minnesota when an adult can fish for free if they Take a Kid Fishing. This is an opportunity to get outside during the Great Outdoors Month of June. If you can bring your …
That’s us, we’re in the Heart of the Continent and National Geographic is featuring our area. You can nominate places to be included on the travel page or support the places we have nominated. It’s very easy to do, just …
Our Sag Lake Trail moose is famous and so is our Voyageur Crew member Mark Ceminsky. Do you remember reading about the Tale of the Moose without a Tail? A guest of ours and writer picked up the story and …
It didn’t snow and it barely drizzled, I’d call that a great Ham Run! The participants had a good time and I’d call it another successful Ham Run on the Gunflint Trail. Here’s a few photos I thought I would …
Dark is good, light is not and I’m not talking about chicken meat. I’m talking about the ice on the Seagull River and the other lakes of the Gunflint Trail and northern Minnesota. As you can see from the photos …
Most backcountry adventurers have heard of SPOT. We’ve had them available for rent at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters for a number of years now. It’s a device that can track your waypoints, send GPS coordinates to others and alert help in …
The temperature on Saturday night got down to -18 degrees and the forecast for the next week still looks like winter. It’s not predicted to be as cold but it’s not supposed to get above freezing either. The good news …
After the Mush for a Cure is over I let out a huge sigh of relief. There’s still stuff to put away, bills to be paid, thank you’s to be said but for the most part I’m finished and I …