Trail Overview
This trail is composed of well-maintained fine gravel and tends to be quite dusty, especially in dry conditions. It passes several homesteads and sees a fair amount of traffic, particularly on weekends. According to the USDA map, there is a dispersed campsite located along the route, but the access trail leading to it is narrow, muddy, and deeply rutted, which may make reaching the site difficult for larger vehicles or during wet weather. The main trail itself remains in good condition and is easy to follow, but caution is advised if attempting to reach the campsite.
Difficulty
This trail is well-maintained and regularly used by other OHV riders, road users, including residents 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.
