FS 2196

Trail Overview

This narrow and overgrown trail appears to see little use, following a mostly straight path through the forest. Several offshoots branch off from the main route, including designated snowmobile trails. The surface is mostly smooth and sandy with some potholes, and it can become difficult to navigate when wet. There are no formal or dispersed campsites along the trail, and there are no amenities such as trash disposal or water.

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Difficulty

This trail is not maintained and is not regularly used by other users. The trail may be overgrown and unused, with debris on the trail.

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

FS 2196 can be accessed by the following ride types:

• High-Clearance 4x4
• SUV