Trail Overview
This trail is a designated OHV route, so drivers should remain alert for trail riders, particularly on weekends when traffic increases. The path is relatively narrow and winds through a scenic forest featuring a mix of old and young trees, with ferns lining much of the route. The surface can be bumpy in places, and a few smaller trails branch off from the main trail for those interested in exploring further. There are no formal or dispersed campsites along the trail, and amenities such as trash disposal and water supply are not available. Cell service is generally present throughout the area.
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.
