County Road 300

Total Miles
4.5

Technical Rating

1

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Trail Type

Full-Width Road

Accessible By

Trail Overview

This trail is mostly composed of well-maintained gravel and travels through a mix of open fields, forested areas, and a few scattered homesteads. It includes one notable ascent followed by a descent, with the route being roughly half straight and half winding. The surface is generally smooth with very few bumps, making for a relatively easy drive. Local traffic may be present, so it's important to drive with caution. There are no formal or dispersed campsites along the trail, and no amenities such as water or trash disposal. Cell service is limited, so it's recommended to check your onX app for coverage.

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County Road 300
County Road 300

Difficulty

This trail is well-maintained and regularly used by 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

1

Status Reports

There are no status reports yet for this trail.

County Road 300 can be accessed by the following ride types:

  • High-Clearance 4x4
  • SUV

Access Description

Drivers who want a defined route can follow three state scenic byways--Avenue of the Pines (State Highway 46), Lady Slipper (Highways 39 and 238), and the Edge of the Wilderness (Highway 38). Each traces an old logging corridor and pauses at cultural touchstones such as the Norway Beach Visitor Center and the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Joyce Estate. Explorers who prefer to improvise may take any signed spur and soon find themselves alone beside a beaver-built wetland or watching the Mississippi River's headwaters twist through tamarack lowlands

County Road 300 Map

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