Trail Overview
This trail is a narrow, designated OHV route maintained by the local ASL ATV Club. It includes sandy, bumpy, and corrugated stretches and crosses a wetland area via a bridge, where turtles are often seen on or near the trail. Keep an eye out for fallen trees. A few spur trails branch off the main route, though many are closed during the summer months. There are no formal or dispersed camping options along the trail, and it does not provide basic services such as trash disposal or potable water. Cell coverage may be limited, so plan accordingly.
History
Covering more than 1.6 million acres of glacial lakes, red-pine uplands, and sphagnum bogs, Minnesota's Chippewa National Forest lets motorists experience the North Woods at an unrushed pace. Paved state highways soon yield to a lattice of numbered forest roads, most of them well-graded gravel that thread between kettle ponds and stands of towering white pine, the tree that helped earn the forest its 1908 designation as one of America's first national forests. The forest harbors one of the highest breeding densities of bald eagles in the continental United States, and patient drivers often glimpse loons, black bears, and white-tailed deer as they move from shoreline to clear-cut regrowth and back again.
