Country Road 127

Trail Overview

This trail is wide and well-maintained, winding its way past a lake that offers public water access and is bordered by a few attractive homes. It continues through a scenic mix of rolling green hills and forested stretches, with occasional climbs and descents along the way. While the drive is pleasant, the trail does not offer any formal or dispersed camping opportunities and lacks basic amenities, such as trash disposal and potable water. Cell phone reception may be limited in some areas.

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Difficulty

This trail is well-maintained and regularly used by OHV users and residents who reside in 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.

Technical Rating

Country Road 127 can be accessed by the following ride types:

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