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

Plan a peaceful paddle with your crew. Here are five places where you can cast off in a canoe. Northern Forest Canoe Trail, New England Whether you are looking for a weeklong adventure or an afternoon ...

An all-female team is more than a month into a self-supported 1,900km kayaking expedition from Grand Portage on Lake Superior ...

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.

Leaf (left) and Shaver land a lake trout. Lee Thomas Kjos Civilian War. Winter in the Boundary Waters isn’t exactly peak season, but it’s still popular for skiing, snowshoeing, and ice fishing. Summer ...

Minnesota’s legendary Boundary Waters Canoe Area can be scary big. The lakes are sometimes huge, or an angry gothic green, and canoe trips there are the stuff of family legend. With around 1 ...

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 wrecked, it’s ...

Outfitting people for trips into the Boundary Waters is a part of Fredrikson's business she'll now have to go without for at least a week. "It is, I'm sure, a disappointment for a lot of ...

ELY, Minn. — A wildfire in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has grown to 27 acres, causing the closure of more areas and portages. According to the U.S. Forest Service, there ...

2 / 4: Ken Hupila augers a hole in a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Lake before a day of brook trout fishing. The ice is a couple of feet thick this time of year.

The Boundary Waters were parched, too: the period June 1-19 was the driest ever in northeast Minnesota, contributing to explosive fire conditions that were doused by timely rains — this time.