Trail Overview
This relatively narrow trail is part of the Corridor Access Trail Route and is maintained by the ASL ATV Club. It winds through dense forest, featuring several gentle climbs and descents, and crosses wetlands and a few small bridges along the way. Western Painted turtles are sometimes spotted near these wet areas, so it's worth keeping an eye out. The trail does not offer any formal or dispersed campsites, and there are no amenities available, including trash disposal and drinking water. Cell phone service may be unreliable in some areas.
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.
