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Trail Overview

This winding trail follows the shoreline of a lake and passes numerous lake houses and lodges along the way. The surface is well-maintained gravel with some gentle climbs and descents throughout. As this is a popular and well-traveled area, watching for local traffic is important. The trail provides no formal or dispersed camping opportunities and lacks basic amenities such as trash disposal and potable water. Cell phone service may be limited in certain sections.

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Difficulty

This trail is well-maintained and used regularly by OHV users and residents in the area, so keep an eye out for children.

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.

Technical Rating

43 can be accessed by the following ride types:

• High-Clearance 4x4
• SUV
• SxS (60")
• ATV (50")
• Dirt Bike