Discover why Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area is the ultimate wilderness escape for summer 2025. Canoes, solitude, and serious wow factor.

INSIDE THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS -- When we shoved off from the portage trail between Lake One and Lake Two amid a gentle breeze and high spirits, I knew we had succeeded.

See trip details for canoeing the Boundary Waters in Minnesota, one of 100 best American adventure trips from National Geographic. A kayaker paddles through nature at its best on Birch Lake in the ...

With the August sun sparkling on Lake One, Chase Coyle stuffed dry sacks full of food for a four-day trip into the Boundary Waters. “It’s a great place to preserve. Once it’s wrec… ...

Near Curtain Falls, between Crooked Lake and Iron Lake on the Minnesota-Ontario border, one of the canoes had a problem, ... with a map of the Boundary Waters map, ...

But 90% of what they’ll deploy on the season’s first days will be one-eighth- and one-fourth-ounce jigs painted chartreuse, white or black and baited with fathead or spot-tailed shiners.

At more than one million acres, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (officially the “BWCAW,” but often referred to as ...