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Seeing the Forest for the Trees This is the first time we’ve put a portrait of a tree on the cover of Northern Wilds. Manido Gheeganze, the Spirit Little Cedar of Grand Portage has been a North Shore icon for at least 400 years. The protected Spirit Little Cedar is a fitting emblem for this issue, which celebrates the forest that surrounds us. Lake Superior may be the tie that binds our North Shore communities, but we live among the trees on its shores.

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We also use the trees that surround us in our day to day lives. Erin Altemus shares the stories of two canoe builders, one who uses wood and canvas and one who uses birch bark. Their works can be seen this month at the North House Folk School’s annual Wooden Boat Show. Deke Burnham tells us about another man who uses natural materials—rocks and driftwood—to fashion sculptures in his yard along Hwy. 61. Kelsey Roseth explains how local restaurants are using wood-fired ovens to deliver flavorful foods to their customers.

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The forest is ever growing and changing. Sometimes the changes are the works of man, such as timber harvesting and other times they are the works of Nature, such as windstorms and wildfires. Joe Friedrichs examines how wildfires in the past decade have affected the canoe country. In another story, he tells us how the Brandt family on the Gunflint Trail plants trees as their contribution to the future forest.

Gord Ellis shares what he calls the strangest story of his writing career, the crazy tale of a lynx vs. a goat—in the living room. A couple of animal-lovers on our staff said readers should be forewarned that the story doesn’t end well for the lynx. The goat, on the other hand, is something of a national celebrity in Canada.

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among the rocks and oversees Wiger’s work, sometimes adjusting or rearranging the rocks as he clambers over them. Most of the sculptures Wiger displays were purchased from local artists. He says, “Each animal carving or sculpture I have is of critters that I’ve seen up here, even the mountain lion.” “It’s my hobby, a work in progress,” says Wiger, who since 1997 has represented parts of Ramsey and Washington counties that encompass a large portion of the Twin Cities metro area. Wiger’s hobby produces a landscape that’s meant to be looked at, studied, and appreciated slowly – section by section. He notes that the colorful seasonal flowers, especially the roses he has throughout his landscape, are among his favorites, providing beautiful contrasts to the gray rocks and sun-bleached driftwood. “It’s fun to assemble the rocks, especially the rock cairn, into their configurations,” says Wiger. “I’m just an amateur from the Cities who comes up and thoroughly enjoys the North Shore area.” —Deke Burnham

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Ride a submarine RED ROCK—The new Red Rock Marina Interpretive Centre opened on May 16. The centre hosts nine interactive exhibits that focus on the historical, biological and geological aspects unique to Red Rock and the area. The largest permanent exhibit, sponsored by Parks Canada, showcases the proposed Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area through a fourseat, animated submarine ride.

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National Geographic embraces the North Shore ATIKOKAN—With the backing of one of the most recognized organizations throughout the world – the National Geographic Society – geotourism has arrived to the North Shore. The National Geographic Society (NGS) and the Heart of the Continent Partnership (HOCP) joined forces to bring geotourism to an area encompassing 5.5 million acres (2.2 hectares) within an approximate geographic triangle, having Duluth, Thunder Bay and International Falls as the corner points. This massive region is the largest expanse of public greenspace in the heart of North America, hence the name Heart of the Continent. Geotourism is tourism that sustains or enhances the geographic character of a place, its environment, businesses, cultures, aesthetics and heritage. The teaming of HOCP with NGS as a geotourism destination places the region into very selective company–only about 20 geotourism destinations in the world are designated as such. The designation highlights the unique and authentic travel experiences the region has to offer. It helps enhance and promote the area to targeted travel markets, such as international tourists who want to experience a sense of place, cultural heritage and natural beauty. The HOCP and the NGS asked people from all over the multi-million acre Minnesota-Ontario region to tell their stories and provide information on the places most respected and recommended by local residents. These voices and recommendations are now available to the world via websites, online interactive maps and a mobile app. Linda Kratt of Visit Cook County in Grand Marais says, “It’s another opportunity to promote our area whether it be dining, lodging, stores, or the natural beauty here. We submitted some of our highest falls, highest mountain in the state, and other notable sites.” The prestige of having the NGS promote this region is not to be taken lightly. The NGS’s high-quality maps, magazines, writing, photography, film projects and websites are respected around the world. Now the North Shore’s equally high-quality geography is available to the world as a way to increase tourism and facilitate wise stewardship.

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The only exception to the growing wolf population trend is in North Carolina, where the critically endangered population of red wolves has dropped by more than 10 percent over the past two years. Recent estimates reflect that fewer than 90 red wolves are known to exist in the wild. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists gray wolves as endangered except in Minnesota, where they are classed as threatened. In Idaho and Montana they are state-managed and subject to public hunting and trapping. Researchers point out, though, that wolf populations in these states are holding their own or increasing.

Early in the 20th century, wolves were extirpated (nearly completely annihilated) by government efforts to poison them throughout most of the 48 states. In 1967 they were placed on the federal Endangered Species List when only about 750 remained in northeastern Minnesota and Isle Royale National Park. They were then protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, reintroduced in the West in 1995 and 1996 and have increased ever since, both in numbers and geographic range.

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New Superior Hiking Trail section to open TWO HARBORS— A new section of the Superior Hiking Trail opens in June. Work continues at a steady pace to have the upcoming trail section ready for the projected June 6 opening, which is National Trails Day. This 5.9mile section goes from the Jay Cooke State Park Visitor Center, southwest of Duluth, to Wild Valley Road. This is one of the last two sections of the Superior Hiking Trail to be built in order to link the Superior Hiking Trail with the North Country National Scenic Trail in Wisconsin. From the Visitor Center, the trail will cross the famous Swinging Bridge. From the bridge, there are amazing views of the rapids of the St. Louis River. The route then shares several state park trails for about three miles, with river and forest views. After that, the route becomes the narrow SHT footpath for several more miles through the park with views of the St. Louis River Valley. The new section won’t be added to the Guide to the Superior Hiking Trail until a new edition is issued, likely in 2016, but a trail section document will be available with

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Property owner Randy Bowe, a Duluth taxidermist who on May 1 closed off 1.6 miles of his private land to further SHT use said, “It’s a privilege, not a right, to be using private property. My family and I spent a lot of sleepless nights contemplating what to do about this. It got to the point where the cons outweighed the pros.”

Bowe said, “The hiking trail association has been great. They’ve gone out of their way, both in the past and now, to add signage on my land and to educate the people on their website. On both ends of the trail on my property, signs are in place, along with brush and deadfall put over the trail to indicate that it’s now closed,” he said.

According to Bowe, the cons included too many deserted, smoldering campfires, some hostile hikers and criticism of his ATV use on his own land. “It’s a case of the few ruining it for the many,” said Bowe. Problems with hikers have increased as the trail has grown in popularity. This is the first time since SHT’s inception that a private landowner has shut down private-property access previously granted to the hiking group.

“People who use the SHT are very supportive and very apologetic that a few others have treated my property and family so poorly and caused this issue,” said Bowe.

SHT Executive Director Gayle Coyer said, “We had what’s called a simple permit with Randy. He decided it wasn’t working out to have the trail on his property and he asked us to close that portion.” The now-closed segment interrupts the trail from the northern boundary of Gooseberry Falls State Park to Split Rock River Wayside. It was a popular section in the heart of the trail. Coyle said, “We’ll be working to reroute the trail on public land to the west of the private land. Ideally

Although the SHT passes chiefly through public land, it crosses approximately 50 sections of private land. The hiking trail had been on Bowe’s property for over 30 years.

Now the SHT’s top priority is to help hikers get around the closed section. “With a temporary detour now in place, there’s a larger effort we need to undertake to do a reroute around the closed section. We have permission to scout and flag public areas, but then an entire approval process is required before we can construct the new trail segment,” said Coyer. The Superior Hiking Trail Association is a private nonprofit group that maintains and manages the 296mile trail and its 93 campsites. It runs from Jay Cooke State Park, south of Duluth, to the Canadian border. —Deke Burnham

Cook County solar survey GRAND MARAIS— Cook County Local Energy Project, CCLEP, is compiling a list of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems installed in Cook County. PV owners who use grid, grid with battery back up or non-grid tied systems, are encouraged to fill out the survey and send it to CCLEP. The data will be used to describe the general picture of how PV systems are being used in Cook County. Personal information is not for public use.

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Brandon R. Greeley, 28, a resident of Blue Earth and a licensed bear guide in Tofte, is well known to DNR conservation officers in northern and southern Minnesota as a chronic poacher with previous fishing, trapping and hunting violations. After the latest investigation wrapped up, Greeley was convicted of several gross misdemeanor and misdemeanor charges, fined nearly $4,000, and had his hunting privileges revoked for three years. Conservation officers began investigating Greeley in 2012, and it became apparent that he violated game laws involving bear, deer, furbearing animals and fish. Greeley’s illegal activities with clients included reports of not having the proper zone license to hunt bear in a given area, illegally transferring a bear tag, failure to register a bear, and lending a bear license. Multiple other bear violations, committed by other hunters, were also detected during the extensive investigation. Greeley was also accused of shooting two bears in 2012 without a license and using a client’s bear tag. DNR records indicate that the client’s tag had been used to register four bears from 2007-2011, but the client had only taken two bears and couldn’t account for the registration of the additional bears.

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Demmer honored with arts award DULUTH—The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council named Amy Demmer, executive director of the Grand Marais Art Colony, as the recipient for this year’s Maddie Simons Advocate Award. Demmer transformed the Colony by involving the Board and whole community in the process of its growth. Moving to Grand Marais in 2006 after working in several Minnesota communities, as well as in Spain, Cuba, and Chile, Demmer believes good work begins on a small scale and creates lasting impact by engaging the community. Her enthusiasm for the arts, ability to hear and value ideas from others, and skill at focusing ideas into useable programs, have had a major impact on the arts in the Grand Marais community. In the last five years, Demmer led the Art Colony through a time of struggle and confusion to where it is today: a true center of art-making for all ages. She built on the organization’s strengths while expanding

programming into new areas beyond anything previously envisioned. She dramatically increased the variety of mediums being taught and geared the classes to community members. Demmer expanded the class offerings to include instruction in sculpture, book arts, print¬making, pottery, glass, and encaustic and sumi-e painting. She opens the pottery studio to artists and community members every fall for Empty Bowls, a fundraising event for the local food shelf. She also encourages students of all ages to work in the Art Colony’s well-equipped glass and print studios. Demmer initiated after-school programs for children during the school year and through the summer. She also initiated a new month-long artist-in-residence program featuring artists such as painter Hazel Belvo and sculptors/printmakers Lee and Dan Ross. The community is welcome to visit and watch their progress.

Amy Demmer’s leadership invigorates the Grand Marais Art Colony. | SUBMITTED The Maddie Simons Arts Advocate Award is named for Madeline Simons, the first volunteer Chair of the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Board. A long-time resident of Grand Marais, she owned a dance studio, helped start the Grand Marais Playhouse, the Lutsen Art Fair, and Minnesota Citizens for the Arts.

Three adult leaders who have made significant contributions to the Boy Scouts of America’s Voyageurs Area Council in the Northland received one of Scouting’s highest volunteer awards. Chief Scout Executive Wayne Brock presented the Silver Beaver Award to Elaine Hansen of Duluth and to brothers Patrick Baumann of Virginia and Dan Baumann of Grand Marais during the Scouter Recognition Dinner for the Voyageurs Area Council at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. | SUBMITTED

Segway Tours opens in Grand Marais GRAND MARAIS— James Linden and his wife, Dianne, are opening a new small business on May 29 called Grand Marais Segway Tours. More than merely transportation to see the town, the owners describe it as an experience unlike anything you’ve likely tried before. “Riders become gliding pedestrians going from place to place in a truly invigorating manner,” says Jim Linden. “Individuals unable to walk long distances can travel in a fun and unique way while sight-seeing.”

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Bark Canoes Before there was Kevlar, aluminum, plastic or even canvas, there was birch bark—and that is what attracts Erik Simula to the oldest form of canoe. Simula, born in Duluth, has lived in northern Minnesota all of his life, and now resides near Finland. He grew up paddling cedar strip and wood canvas canoes. He also worked for the Voyageur Outward Bound School in Ely for a time and, like Bourquin, nourished his love of canoeing and teaching outdoor skills at the school. Simula said he was 20 years old when he first took great interest in birch bark canoes in museums and hung on the walls at resorts. He started doing research and realized that the bark canoes were really the original canoes (with the exception of dugout canoes, which were carved out of wood as opposed to constructed). He was intrigued. At the same time he started learning more about Native American culture and married a native woman. They lived on the Leech Lake Reservation for a while and he began seeking out knowledge about building birch bark canoes, but often the knowledge wasn’t easily found. Some of the advice was subtle. An elder would say, “I watched my grandfather and this is what I remember...” Over time, the knowledge of birch bark canoes among Native Americans was becoming lost. Simula said that the birch bark canoe is really an endangered cultural artifact. The traditions are not being passed on like they used to be. And, because of climate change, the birch trees are diminishing as well. All northern tribes used these canoes, Simula said. There were differences between tribal forms because the canoes were built to the waterways that they were paddled on, and expanded on local material availability and technique preference. It is all this history that makes Simula passionate for the birch bark canoe. “There is a distinct beauty to the well-made birch bark canoe,” he said. “There’s something to be said about a canoe used for thousands of years.”

Simula built bark canoes for 15 years at Grand Portage National Monument, and in talking with visitors about the canoes, he said he found a number of common misconceptions. One is that many people think the white bark is on the outside. The reality is that the inside of the bark, which initially is yellow, then fades in sunlight to orange or red and eventually to white, found on the outside of the canoe. Also, people tend to think a birch bark canoe is easily made and quickly put together. Really, a functional canoe relies on good design, craftsmanship and select, durable materials. People have crossed Lake Superior in these canoes—they have to be made well. In the last 20 years, Simula said there has been a resurgence of interest in birch bark canoes and this reflects the greater interest in retaining other aspects of traditional native culture, including native languages. In 2009, Simula and his dog, Kitigan, paddled 1,000 miles in four months in his bark canoe. “I wanted to paddle the Arrowhead Region where I grew up. It was a way of living for me, to visit friends and family and take side routes.” Halfway through the trip, he had to replace a two-foot section of bark on the hull of the canoe. But this is another thing Simula likes about the birch bark canoe. If you need to repair it, you can. Though it’s not easy to maintain. You have to learn about pitching and keeping the bark supple. Yet, Simula said, if you’re in a bark canoe, and you hit a rock, you might get a scratch, but the hull is really durable. For Simula, the love of paddling a birch bark canoe is encompassed by the history and tradition of the material. But more than that he said, “it is a spiritual experience. Think about the natural materials—cedar, bark, root, pitch. If you’re in tune with nature, it’s a powerful connection.” Eric Simula will be teaching a four-day course in the fundamentals of birch bark canoe construction prior to the Wooden Boat Show at North House Folk School June 19-21. He will also have some of his canoes on display.

[TOP] Erik Simula and his dog Kitigan paddled for four months in a canoe Simula built. [BOTTOM] Erik Simula’s bark canoes are pretty to look at and to paddle. | ERIK SIMULA

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It’s a rare sight in 2015 to see a wood canoe gliding down a lake or river, even in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. More often, these wooden boats are hanging on a wall— too pretty to paddle, their owners might say. There are builders still building wood canoes, however, and there are paddlers still wanting to paddle these boats, which compared to the modern day Kevlar canoe are heavier, more expensive and more work to maintain.

Bourquin Boats Ask canoe builder Jeanne Bourquin why she has continued to build and paddle wood canvas canoes for several decades and she says most folks don’t realize how nice they are to paddle. “It’s kind of alarming how few people paddle these canoes,” Bourquin said. “People think they are too archaic to use—they might fall apart or are too pretty.” Bourquin, 62, grew up in Roseville and attended YMCA Camp Widjiwagan in Ely as a young woman. It was there that she paddled her first wood canvas canoe. Later Bourquin took a course at the Voyageur Outward Bound School (VOBS) in Ely in 1969 and later started guiding at the school. At VOBS, a group of female guides decided to paddle the South Nahanni River together, a remote river known for its scenic beauty and large rapids. Bourquin wanted to paddle a wood canvas canoe on the Nahanni, so the group ended up with one wood canoe and two plastic canoes. Bourquin and a friend loaded up the brand new canoe and decided to practice lining rapids near Ely. They stuffed two Duluth packs with cast iron pans for weight. Practice was going well, Bourquin said, but then lining upstream, the canoe swung out into the river and was damaged—some broken ribs and a stem band needed replacement. This was how Bourquin met Joe Seliga. She and her friend brought the canoe over to Seliga’s place in Ely and he showed them how to make the repairs. She paddled the South Nahanni in this canoe without any more damage to the boat, but Bourquin joked, “I could have written a hiker’s guide to the South Nahanni.” They lined their boat around a lot of rapids. Unfortunately, that boat, her first wood canvas canoe, burnt in the shed where it was stored that winter. Bourquin was 23 at the time. Over a decade later, Bourquin found another wood canvas canoe to repair and she spent time at Widjiwagan working on Widji’s (as it’s often called) canoes and her own. She asked Jerry Stelmok to come teach a course in building wood canvas ca-

noes at Widji. Bourquin was able to keep the form from the class, and built a canoe for Widji from it. This, she said, launched her career. In the 30 or so years since then, Bourquin has built about 60 canoes, including ones that people have built with her in classes at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais. She’s also had people travel to her shop in Ely to help build the canoe that they are buying. “I’ve profited from being a woman [in this business],” Bourquin said. “It’s unusual to be a woman doing this.” Ely was also home to canoe builder Joe Seliga, who passed away in 2005. Seliga and his wife, Nora, built hundreds of boats together, many of which were sold to Camp Widjiwagan and Sommers Wilderness Canoe Base. Today Widjiwagan maintains one of the largest fleets of wood canvas canoes in the world with 100 boats. Seliga gave Widjiwagan his canoe forms before he passed, so the camp can continue to build his canoe designs. YMCA Camp Menogyn on the Gunflint Trail also maintains a fleet of 27 wood canvas canoes. Bourquin said she learned from Stelmok, Seliga, and other builders and eventually designed her own boat called the Otter, which is her signature canoe. “It’s a small, tandem, wilderness tripping canoe,” she said. Bourquin and her husband own a handful of canoes—and she still finds time to paddle. “It’s really meditative. I didn’t realize that until I started learning about meditation. You aren’t being distracted. I think that’s why people feel so healthy on canoe trips. It’s hard to multi-task—you’re just in the present, paddling to the next portage and walking across.” In the past, Bourquin has taught a full course on building your own wood canvas canoe at North House. This year, before the Wooden Boat Show, she will teach a class on building a square back wood canoe using Joe Seliga’s Fisherman form that he built in 1943.

[TOP RIGHT] Jeanne Bourquin teaches wood canvas canoe construction and repair. | NHFS [BOTTOM RIGHT] A selection of Bourquin canoes graces a shoreline. | JEANNE BOURQUIN

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Folks throughout Cook County this summer and fall might wonder why all types of people are painting outside five days a week at small easels. The answer is likely to be Joi Electa—a tall and energetic plein air painter who breathes her artistic and enthusiastic teaching powers into beginning and experienced painters alike. There’s plenty of room to paint in the open air—and Electa is no stuffed shirt when it comes to who can do plein air painting. Plein air is French for open air. Electa began painting at the age of seven at her grandmother’s side. She later attended the University of South Dakota and Studio Academy School of Advertising, Art & Design. “But to be honest,” she says, “that’s not my true art education, although they look good on paper.” Electa says her real education began when Grand Marais hosted its very first plein air event.

This piece from a plein air competition depicts the falls in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and an old, abandoned mill. “Plein air paintings display images, not precise representations, of what a place looks like. It should give you a feeling of what it felt like to stand there and look at it,” Electa says. “One thing I teach that was taught to me is that when you look at a scene, look at it through your eye lashes. Squint. You want to take out the detail that doesn’t matter.”

She says, “Scott Lloyd Anderson and other top painters were here. I wanted to attend so deeply that I hauled my huge studio easel out onto the rocks. Anderson walked up to me and said, ‘You must really, really want to do this.’” She sure did. “I painted for two years at the sides of top-echelon artists when they came to Grand Marais, “ Electa recounts, “and learned more by painting with other artists than I ever learned from formal schooling.” Beginners can reserve a spot at her Painting Adventures class by visiting www.joielecta.com. She supplies everything. “You’ll be amazed at what you paint!” she says.—Deke Burnham Photos courtesy Joi Electa. 20

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“This is an old sauna near Finland that’s still in use, I believe. It’s gorgeous in the fall because of the orange hawk weed and the white daisies.” Electa says, “An 11 by 14 like this usually takes me about three hours to paint—plus 30 years of trial and error. Also, for every one I paint, there’s 10 that I don’t show.”

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“Six of us painted on this stormy day beneath my big umbrella and the lift gate at the back of my van. It’s the Baptism River near Finland,” says Electa. Avid plein air painters don’t always encounter dry and sunny days. Undeterred, Electa told this class it was time to have fun. She says, “Because the scenery was so dark, I pulled out canvases I had already painted black. Undercoats of varying colors set proper moods depending on what’s being painted.”

Jewelers who Connect with Nature The Grand Marais Art Colony is presenting the works of several nature-inspired jewelers at a group trunk show on Saturday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m. The show is part of a four-day event titled Findings: A Jewelry Symposium that runs June 11-14 at the Art Colony. The four jewelers featured on this page, like most, define “findings” in two related ways: as found objects discovered or uncovered while exploring nature; and as items they make and use to connect jewelry components into finished pieces.—Deke Burnham

Tova Lund’s skill as a jewelry artist and her curiosity about our relationship with the environment come together in this mixed-media necklace. Her eye integrates found objects into meticulously fabricated sculptural adornment. She currently resides in northern California and teaches at the College of the Redwoods. Lund earned her MFA at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and her BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where she has taught metalsmithing and 3D design classes. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine and included in Art Jewelry Magazine. | TOVA LUND

Tedd McDonah creates works that speak of his love for the outdoors and his rural upbringing. He is a part-time studio artist, educator and tool-maker/ repairman who spends his summers as an avid angler. This decorative fishing lure demonstrates his many skills. McDonah’s techniques bridge the disciplines of blacksmithing, non-ferrous metalsmithing and jewelry making. He earned his MFA from Arizona State University and his BA in art from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. He lives in Millersville, Penn. | TEDD MCDONAH

Danny Saathoff is both a jewelry designer and an interactive, kinetic sculptor. He thinks of his jewelry as small-scale sculpture and his kinetic sculpture as large-scale jewelry. He teaches metalsmithing at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. During the summer, he and his family explore Lake Superior on their 35-foot sailboat. | DANNY SAATHOFF

Becky McDonah has had her work published in Humor in Craft; Mixed Metal; Jewelry Workshop; 500 Metal Vessels; and Metalsmith magazine. This piece is her Cootie Wall Mount. She heads up the Fine Art Metals Area at Millersville University in Penn. and currently serves on the Society of North American Goldsmiths Board of Directors. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and BA from the University of WisconsinLaCrosse. McDonah has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and has lectured and presented workshops across the country. | BECKY MCDONAH

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If it is made of wood and floats, you’ll likely see it on display at the Wooden Boat Show in Grand Marais June 19-21. | NHFS

Emerald Ash Borer Workshop May 28

Help reduce the impact of the emerald ash borer on North Shore communities by learning to identify ash tree symptoms. This workshop also provides information about management of urban and forest ash trees and the effects of quarantines. Activities include a field trip to inspect local ash trees. Cook County Community Center, Grand Marais 10 a.m. – noon. www.arrowheadinvasives.org

Northern Landscapes Festival May 29-31

Eleven courses at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais offer featured speakers Bob Janssen, birder and author; Chel Anderson, naturalist and author; and a free family program. Discover the birds, wildflowers, geology and more of the dynamic and rich Northern Wilds landscape. The Northern Landscapes Festival features a series of interrelated, field-focused courses complemented by presentations and programs. In addition to featured speakers are ecology, geology, and birding courses plus self-guided birding at Chik-Wauk and a community pizza bake. www.northhouse.org

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Art and Ambiance Art Auction June 5

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery has rescheduled the 2015 Art and Ambiance Art Auction to take place on Friday, June 5. This popular event includes appetizers, a cash bar, raffle prizes, live music by local musicians Robin Ranger with Damon Dowbak, and a live and silent auction to support the gallery’s exhibition and education programs. Tickets are $45 and are available for purchase at the art gallery. Also featured at the TB Art Gallery this summer are numerous exhibits, including Janna Brown: Still Echoes Resound from June 12 - Sept. 6. www.theag.ca

Try your hand panning for gold at Thunder Bay Mining Day. | SUBMITTED

Grand Marais Classic Car Show

Thunder Bay Mining Day

Vote for your favorite car, truck or motorcycle at Harbor Park in Grand Marais during the annual Classic Car Show. The show is free and will take place from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine. The SplinterTones will provide live music from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Awards will be given out to participates at the Voyageur Brewery at 3:15 p.m. www.visitcookcounty.com

The 3rd annual Thunder Bay Mining Day will be held at the Marina Park on Lake Superior, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Activities include gold panning with real gold, a treasure hunt, numerous exhibits and presentations, Geologist Peter Vanstone, mining equipment simulators, a helicopter, and more. www.thunderbayminingday.ca

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JUNE 2015

GUNFLINT TRAIL HOSTS

first-ever

Boundary Waters Expo June 12-14 The Gunflint Trail community is hosting a brandnew event June 12-14: the Boundary Waters Expo. You might call it an outdoor sport show, set against the backdrop of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Expo will be held at the Sea Gull Lake Public Landing, just off the Gunflint Trail. “We thought it would be a nice place to have a canoe show,” says Quinn McCloughan of Bearskin Lodge.

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An impressive line-up of exhibitors will be on hand to display products and provide hands-on demonstrations. Just in case it rains, the vendors will be housed in a large tent. But the demonstrations will be outside and on the water. “Folks will be able to try and compare various canoes from several manufacturers,” McCloughan says. Canoe manufacturers include Souris River Canoes, Sanborn Canoe Company, Stewart River Boatworks, Nova Craft Canoes, Northstar Canoes and St. Croix Canoes. Other exhibitors include Camp Chow, Cooke Custom Sewing, Duluth Pack, Eagles Nest Outfitters, Enlightened Equipment, Exped, Frost River, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, Nemo Equipment, Outdoor Research and Sealskinz.

The first-ever Boundary Waters Canoe Expo is June 12-14 at Sea Gull Lake Public Boat Landing. | PAUL SUNDBERG

“The manufacturers are excited to get up on the Gunflint Trail,” McCloughan says. “For instance, a company like Duluth Pack can show off its packs in the place where its reputation was built.”

Nelson. A highlight of the event will be a Saturday evening bonfire, where Jacobson, O’Hara and others will tell stories.

ous outlets. The Gunflint Trail Association and Visit Cook County will have booths to promote the BWCAW and local businesses at the show.

A number of speakers will give hands-on presentations throughout the three-day event. Topping the list is author Cliff Jacobson, who has penned numerous books about wilderness canoeing and camping. Legendary paddler Bob O’Hara, who has made the first descents of many Arctic rivers, will be on hand, too. Local presenters include fishing guide Cory Christianson, emergency medical responders Kelly and Paul Dahl and former Quetico park ranger Jon

Since this is the first year of the expo, no one knows what to expect in terms of turnout. McCloughan says mid-June generally brings good numbers of visitors to the Gunflint Trail and North Shore. He hopes some BWCAW paddlers will go to the expo as a prelude to their canoe trip. While some folks may come to the area specifically to attend the expo, others may check it out once they hear about it. Visit Cook County is promoting the event through vari-

The expo will begin on Friday afternoon, but will go on all day Saturday and Sunday. Food will be provided throughout the event by Double D’s BBQ. A raffle featuring gear from exhibitors and other prizes will take place as well.

Your Adventure Awaits

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“We want to get people more excited about the Boundary Waters and the Gunflint Trail,” says Quinn McCloughan. –Shawn Perich

Begin Your BWCA/Quetico Experience Today!

Book your 3-Day Boundary Waters Package for July departures for $349/person Mention “BW Expo” for discount.

218-388-2216 - www.seagulloutfitters.com - 12208 Gunflint Trail, Grand Marais 24

After the expo on Sunday, the Gunflint Trail Historical Society will sponsor a Shrimp Boil and Bake Sale in the adjacent Gunflint Trail Fire Dept. Community Center. All profits will benefit the historical society and the Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center. That event begins at 4 p.m., capping off what will be a fun weekend for anyone who enjoys the canoe country.

• Cabins & Camping • Canoeing & Kayaking • Pets & Family Friendly • Groceries & Supplies • Ice Cream & Pizzas • Open to the Public www.gunflintpines.com

218.388.4454 · 800.533.5814

217 S. Gunflint Lk • Grand Marais, MN 55604

We are open during construction! Seasonal Exhibit:

The Paper Trail of the Guntflint Trail

Diaries, letters and brochures collected from resorts and residents from years past.

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NSMA features Guy Davis

Findings: A Jewelry Symposium June 11-14

Seagull Lake Community Center $15/plate

Guy Davis is a man of many talents. He’s a musician, composer, actor, director and writer, but he’s best known as a bluesman. He has been nominated for nine W.C. Handy Awards, including “Best Traditional Blues Album,” “Best Blues Song,” and “Best Acoustic Blues Artist.” He’s also appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, Larry Groce’s Mountain Stage and David Dye’s World Café. Guy Davis will be performing at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais. Tickets are $15 adults, $5 youth. Purchase tickets at the door, or online at www.tix.com. Show begins at 7:30 p.m. www.northshoremusicassociation.com

The Grand Marais Art Colony and Minnesota Jewelry Arts Guild are hosting a brand new event for beginner and professional artists, as well as art lovers. This fourday event will feature courses, demonstrations, and lectures on the art of jewelry making. Classes include Metal Piercing, Titanium Constructed Jewelry, Forming with the Hydraulic Press, Saltwater Etching, Wax Working, and more. www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

Boundary Waters Archeology Presentation

June 6

Duluth Superior Sailing Association Open House June 6 & 13

Come learn what it takes to sail on Lake Superior at the Duluth Superior Sailing Association Open House on Saturday, June 6 and 13. It takes place from noon-3 p.m. and will provide free rides. The open house will be located at the Superior boat launch, past the Park Point recreation pier. www.sailingforall.org

Split Rock Lighthouse Open House

Shrimp Boil & Bake Sale June 14, 4 p.m.

June 21, 2 p.m.

Seagull Lake Community Center Grand Portage National Monument archeologist Bill Clayton presents on Northwoods Archeology projects.

June 13

Enjoy the beauty and history of Minnesota’s North Shore during an open house at Split Rock Lighthouse and State Park from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Admission is free to both the Lighthouse and the State Park on this day only. Tour the light station, keeper’s house and fog-signal building. Stop by the Visitor Center to see exhibits on the North Shore’s tourism and commercial fishing industries, and view a film about the early shipping industry on Lake Superior.

Gunflint Trail Explorers

Tuesdays: June 30th - August 18th

10% Off

$ Gift Shop Discount

per night for 2

(2 night minimum stay) valid June 9-18 Norwester Guests get 30% off Gunflint Trail Guests get 20% off 218-388-2252 • www.norwesterlodge.com Poplar Lake, 30 miles up the Gunflint Trail ENJOY THE SCENIC DRIVE

all regularly priced clothing, camping equipment, lodge gifts & merchandise in the store AND canoe and kayak day rentals

with this coupon

Bear Track Outfitting, Co.

2011 W Highway 61 on the West edge of Grand Marais.

1-800-795-806 www.bear-track.com

Cathi & David Williams, Owner/Operators since 1972.

An all-day program for kids including crafts, letterboxing and nature activities.

Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center

28 Moose Pond Drive,Grand Marais, MN 55604

55 miles up the Gunflint Trail. Open daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m through mid-October.

218-388-9915

info@chikwauk.com · www.chikwauk.com

Seagull Lake Community Center

is located at 7 Seagull Lake Access Road off the Gunflint Trail NORTHERN WILDS

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Saturday, June 6, 2015 11am - 3pm

12 Classes • Cars, Trucks, Bikes • 25 Awards • $10 Pre-registration – $15 Day of Event Classic cars on display on Wisconsin Street Viewing is free to the public

Spend the night in Grand Marais! Check out our website for accommodations!

VisitCookCounty.com 1-888-922-5000 • info@visitcookcounty.com

Featuring

Minnesota-made artwork, paintings, photography and unique, handcrafted items such as fine silver jewelry, beautiful beeswax and soy candles, turned wood, glass art, gorgeous pottery and more.

Now open 7 days a week

*Join our free book exchange, just bring a book and take a book* Gallery & Cottages

Stop in and say hello; we’d love to meet you and show you all of the wonderful changes we’ve made!

Open Year Round

Summer Hours: M-F 10-7 • Sa & Su 10-5 4210 W Highway 61 Lutsen, MN 55612 Located just between Lutsen and Grand Marais 218.387.2585 • www.kahneetah.com Find us on Facebook @ Kah-Nee-Tah Gallery & Cottages And Instagram @kahneetahgallerylutsen

Our new website is now live! Check it out at www.kahneetah.com

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Painting Adventures JOI ELECTA is a professional practicing Artist offering Painting Adventures all summer. These adventures are geared towards beginners, but of course anyone can join! Everything is supplied, all you need to do is show up and paint. If you have been curious or you just want to try something new, this is fun and you will be amazed at what you paint!

Schedule

Tuesday... Gooseberry State Park, 3 pm meet in front of park offices Wednesday... Temperance River State Park, 3 pm meet in parking lot on lake side Thursday... Grand Marais, 3 pm meet at Joy and Co / The Garage

[ABOVE AND BELOW] Spectators at the Wooden Boat Show. | NHFS

Fort William Relay for Life June 19

RESERVE your spot!

Join the fight to end cancer at the Relay for Life event, sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society. Event will take place at Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario from 6 p.m.-12 a.m. www. visitnorthwestontario.com

15th Annual

Lake Superior Salmon Classic Fishing Tournament Silver Bay Marina Sat, July 18 & Sun, July 19

June 19-21

Join the North House Folk School in Grand Marais for one of its biggest celebrations of the year. Inspired by boat builders, sailors and travelers, this family friendly educational event offers numerous courses, demonstrations and activities. Highlights include a wooden boat display, wood carving for kids, a boat parade, silent and live auctions, live music, food, and more. www.northhouse.org

Guy Davis

June 6 - 7:30 PM Arrowhead Center for the Arts 51 W. 5th Street, Grand Marais Tickets $15 adults, $5 youth at www.tix.com or door

“Draws from the same well that fed Fats Waller, Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters.” ~ The Musician’s Magazine, NY

northshoremusicassociation.com

$40

PER SESSION

Call/TEXT: 218-220-0049 OR Visit: www.joielecta.com

Wooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival

9 Handy-Awardnominated bluesman

Friday... Cascade State Park, 3 pm meet in parking lot on Hwy 61 Saturday.... Morning Painting Gunflint Trail, meet at Trail Center Lodge 9 am

Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery On the Harbor, Grand Marais, MN

May 29 - June 21 Frozen Photographers Group

Fire & Ice, No Ordinary Landscape June 26 - July 19

Northwoods Fiber Arts Guild Member Show Hours: Sun-Mon 1-4 pm,Wed-Sat 10 am-4 pm, Closed Tues 115 W. Wisconsin St. · 218-387-2314 www.johnsonheritagepost.org

Entry fee $20 per person Raffle tickets also available For more info and rules visit:

www.silverbay.com/marina.html Hosted by: Silver Bay PTSO Supported by the Silver Bay Area Tourism Association

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Grandma’s Marathon June 20

Test your speed and endurance with the annual Grandma’s Marathon race, totaling 26.2 grueling miles. The race will start at 7:45 a.m. in Two Harbors and end in Canal Park, Duluth. The Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon (13.1 miles) will also be taking place, as well as the William A. Irvin 5K, held on June 19, totaling 3.1 miles. Grandma’s Marathon will also be featuring live music Friday and Saturday night with Rock the Big Top Celebration, featuring Gloriana, Hitchville, Pop Rocks and Coyote Wild. Concerts will be held in Canal Park, Duluth. www.grandmasmarathon. com

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JUNE EVENTS

2015

Hovland

July 3 & 4

Friday & Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

Art & Music

SATURDAYS IN JUNE • 11 A.M. The Muffin Man Stories for young children. TUESDAY JUNE 2 • 5 P.M. Full Moon Reading featuring Erin Altemus outside on the lakeshore SATURDAY JUNE 6 • 5 P.M. Writer’s Salon with poet Sharon Chmielarz from Visibility: Ten Miles, a Prairie Memoir in Photography and Poetry SATURDAY JUNE 20 • 5 P.M. Writer’s Salon with children’s author Lauren Stringer reading from When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky WEDNESDAY JULY 1 8-9:15 P.M. Full Moon Musical Celebration featuring cellist Yvonne Caruthers, formerly of the NSO of Washinton D.C. Moonrise is at 8:27 p.m. Hours: May-Jun 5: M, Tu, Th, F & Sa 10 am-5 pm, Closed Su and W Starting June 6: M-F 10 am-8 pm, Sa 10 am-6 pm, Su 10 am-4 p.m.

provided by Trinity Lutheran Church

218-387-3370 12 E. Wisconsin St., Grand Marais

www.hovlandartsfestival.com • Hovland Town Hall • 4957 E Hwy 61

Live from the Rock

August 7-9

Red Rock, Ontario Canada (Just 1 Hour East of Thunder Bay)

20 Musicians on 4 Stages:

Roots  Blues   Country  Bluegrass  Celtic  

More Than Just Music

∙ Children’s Activities ∙ Yoga Classes ∙ Open Mic ∙ Artisan Marketplace ∙ Voyageur Canoe Rides 28

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The Fol k

Folk Festival

n w o T n i k c a B e r sa 13 Years

Advance Weekend Pass - $60 for Adults ∙ $50 for Youth & Seniors ∙ $10 for Children Save $20! Buy Advance passes through our website. On-site Camping Available - purchase $20 passes at the gate

www.livefromtherockfolkfestival.com

Northwoods Fiber Guild Show

in g N o w Ta k

June 26-July 19

OReNserLvaItNionEs!

The Northwoods Fiber Guild show, “Through our Hands IV,” will feature a variety of fiber art including weaving, knitting, felting, jewelry, sculpture, gifts and more. The show opens with a reception from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, June 26, at the Johnson Heritage Post in Grand Marais. www.johnsonheritagepost.org

Sail Lake superior

Kakabeka Falls Bluegrass Festival June 26-28

The Thunder Bay Bluegrass & Old Tyme Music Association is a non-profit group of volunteers promoting Bluegrass and Old Tyme music in Northwest Ontario. They will hold the 7th annual Bluegrass Festival, located at the Kakabeka Falls Bible Camp. This year’s lineup includes The High 48s, Roe Family Singers, Porcupine Creek, Gibson Martin & I, Shades of Grey, Flipper Flannigan’s Flat Footed Four, and many more. www.kakabekafallsbluegrassfestival.weebly.com

[ABOVE] Kick up your

heels at the Bluegrass Festival in Kakabeka Falls. | SUBMITTED [LEFT] A variety of fiber art will be displayed at the Northwoods Fiber Guild Show. | SUBMITTED

Grand Marais

Set sail on our 50’ schooner Hjørdis. Two-hour sails available most days. Sign up online or call 888-387-9762

www.northhouse.org

Events

Arts Festival July 11 - 12

Summer Beer Tastings Kickoff Fri., June 12 featuring Voyageur Brewing from Grand Marais, MN

Fine Art Live Music Demos Art Activities

Yarn Harbor is a full-service yarn shop supplying the community with beautiful yarns, books, notions & classes. Check out our website for classes & events.

Guest Teacher: Carol Anderson from Cottage Creations Sat. & Sun., June 27-28 Duluth-inspired Colorways from Three Irish Girls now available online! yarnharborduluth.com

wooden boat show

& Summer Solstice Festival June 19-21

→ Boat display, auction, craft, speakers, solstice pageant → 18 Hands-On courses - boatbuilding to Blacksmithing

→ featured speaker

- “Summiting denali solo in january” with Lonnie Dupre

www.northhouse.org Grand Marais Art Colony (218) 387-2737 grandmaraisartcolony.org 120 W. 3rd Ave | Grand Marais

4629 East Superior Street, Duluth M 12-8 • Tu, W, F, Sa 10-5 • Th 10-7 Su 12-5

218-724-6432

www.yarnharborduluth.com NORTHERN WILDS

JUNE 2015

Lutsen 99er June 27-28

This intense 99-mile bike race is not for the faint of heart. It starts and ends at Lutsen Mountains, and weaves through the rugged terrain of the Sawtooth Mountains and boreal forest on Lake Superior. There is also a 19-mile and 39mile bike race. Spectators and volunteers are welcomed and encouraged. Post-race weekend events include a BBQ, live music, kid’s races, an awards ceremony and more. www. lutsen99er.com

Park Point Art Fair June 27-28

The 45th annual art fair will include roughly 120 artists from the Midwest region selling uniquely hand-crafted items. There will also be art-making opportunities and demos, food vendors, live music and displays. The fair will take place on Lake Superior’s sandy Park Point neighborhood in Duluth. www.parkpointartfair.org

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Grand Marais Segway Tours It’s a Moose-Do Event! Enjoy the fun of a Segway tour.

and In repertory ThursdaySundays

July 16 - August 9 For more information and the schedule go to:

www.grandmaraisplayhouse.com Arrowhead Center for the Arts 51 W. 5th St. Grand Marais 30

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Your Segway tour will travel around the Grand Marais Harbor through the woods to the Lake Superior Shoreline, through a covered bridge, and glide by the North House Folk School.

To make a reservation or for more information visit our website:

GrandMaraisSegwayTours.com

or call: 612-708-5177

Downtown Grand Marais, on 1st Ave West across from Birchbark Gifts.

Betsy Bowen Studio & Galleries

Open 11-5 daily ª www.woodcut.com 301 First Avenue West Grand Marais ª 218-387-1992 A family friendly working studio and galleries in a historic church just up the hill from downtown.

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Annual North Shore Health Care Foundation BBQ June 28

Support health care in Cook County with the annual NSHCF BBQ at the Gunflint Lodge up the Gunflint Trail. The Red Paddle cash bar will open at 4 p.m. and the BBQ buffet will begin at 5 p.m. Buffet will include ribs, chicken, salmon, cheesy potatoes, salad, vegetables and dessert. Gerald Thilmany will be providing live music with his accordion. www.northshorehealthcarefoundation.org

Cook County Historical Society’s Annual Fish Cake Dinner June 19

Show support for the CC Historical Society with the annual fish cake dinner on Friday, June 19, located at St. John’s Catholic Church in Grand Marais at 5:30 p.m. Also featured at the Historical Society this summer is a new exhibit, titled Music from the Tip o’ the Arrowhead. Be sure to check it out. www.cookcountyhistory.org

Split Rock Lighthouse Children’s Day June 27

Tours geared for children highlight this popular annual event. Families can learn about the children who lived at the light station, join in special games and participate in a scavenger hunt. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission for ages 17 and under. (218) 226-6372 $9 adults, $7 seniors and college students; free for MNHS members.

Thunder Bay Blues Fest July 3-5

The 14th annual Thunder Bay Blues Festival will entertain, with performances by Johnny Reid, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Paul Rodgers, Alan Frew and many more. The festival will be held outside at Marina Park on Lake Superior. Tickets available online or at the gate. Visit www.tbayblues.ca for tickets and more info.

is a free discussion with carpenter, woodworker and author of A Splintered History of Wood and Cabin Lessons, Spike Carlsen, and architect and author of Back to the Cabin, The Cabin, and Architecture of Edwin Lundie, Dale Mulfinger. Speakers will be held at the Schroeder Town Hall at 10 a.m. (218) 663-7706

25th Annual Grand Marais Arts Festival July 11-12

This year’s festival will feature over 70 local and regional artists showcasing their unique handcrafted work, ranging from jewelry, fiber, photography, ceramics, glass, sculptures and more. The festival will be held in downtown Grand Marais, near the shores of Lake Superior. New this year is the Clothesline Art Sale Fundraiser; a 5x7 sale of artwork donated by talented artists. Each piece of art is $35 and proceeds will help support the Grand Marais Art Colony. For more info, visit www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

Fort Fest Music Festival July 17-18

Enjoy two nights of family friendly live music at the Fort William Historical Park amphitheater in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Performers include big name bands Bret Michaels, Loverboy, Blue Oyster Cult, The Romantics, Tommy Tutone, Great White, Harlequin, and a variety of local artists. Tickets are $20 for Friday, $30 for Saturday, or $45 for a weekend pass. www.fwhp.ca

Crystal’s Log Cabin Quilts 10% off Everything in the Shop excluding ready-mades

June 21 Row-by-Row Demo Learn & Make Classes Thursdays in June: Lehmann Thursdays in July: Perfect Ten

Lundie Vacation Home Tour July 11

Schroeder Area Historical Society and Cross River Heritage Center present the 11th annual Lundie Vacation Home Tour, featuring six unique architecture sites by Edwin Lundie, located in Schroeder and Tofte. Also featured

Hand-printed woodcuts

HOURS

May: Thurs, Fri & Sat 10 am - 5 pm June: 7 Days a week 10 am - 5 pm

218-387-3177 • crystals@boreal.org 1100 West Hwy 61, Grand Marais, MN

SAWMILL TOURS Hedstrom Lumber Co. will be offering tours of the Sawmill and Planing Mill

BEGINNING JUNE 26

TOUR TIMES:

TUES. 12:30-2 PM | FRI. 10-11:30 AM Special group tours available upon request. Limited group size per tour. Pre-registration is required.

Call 387-2995 ext. 14 Tours may be canceled without notice — RSVP required!

HEDSTROM LUMBER COMPANY

218-387-2995 · 1504 Gunflint Trail, Grand Marais, MN NORTHERN WILDS

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JUNE Northern Wilds Calendar of Events Through June 15

Pete Kavanaugh 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille

Bay Art Gallery Ontario www.theag.ca

June 5-6

Secondary School Art Exhibit Thunder

May 28, Thursday

Emerald Ash Borer Workshop 10 a.m. Cook County Community Center, Grand Marais www.arrowheadinvasives.org

May 29-30

Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Childbirth Education Classes Lower Level

of Grand Marais Sawtooth Mountain Clinic www.sawtoothmountainclinic.org

June 6, Saturday Thunder Bay Mining Day

Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank

8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com

May 29-31

Northern Landscapes Festival

Grand Marais North House Folk School www.northhouse.org

May 29-June 21

Frozen Photographers Group: Fire & Ice, No Ordinary Landscape Johnson Heritage Post Grand Marais www.johnsonheritagepost.org

Minnesota’s Superior Coast book signing with authors Chel Anderson

& Heidi Fischer 7 p.m. Hartley Nature Center Duluth www.upress.umn.edu

June 1, Monday

Visual Artist Gatherings 5:30 p.m. A Taste of Ely Restaurant

Eric Frost & Bill Hansen 9 p.m.

Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

June 2, Tuesday Northwoods Band

10 a.m. Marina Park Thunder Bay, Ontario www.thunderbayminingday.ca

Bird Banding Demonstration

7 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org Rummage Sale 10 a.m. Grand Marais Art Colony www.grandmaraisartcolony.org Grand Marais Classic Car Show 11 a.m. Harbor Park www.visitcookcounty.com Fish Prints Demo 1 p.m. Grand Marais Art Colony www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

Writer’s Salon with Sharon Chmielarz

5 p.m. Drury Lane Books Grand Marais www.drurylanebooks.com Wild Berry Jam 9:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com Guy Davis 7:30 p.m. Grand Marais Arrowhead Center for the Arts www.northshoremusicassociation.com Jody & Lynn 6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com Gordon Thorne 7 p.m. Lutsen Resort www.lutsenresort.com James Moors 7:30 p.m. Cascade Lodge Pub Lutsen www.cascadelodgemn.com

6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com

Walleye Whamma Fishing Contest

Full Moon Reading with Erin Altemus

June 6 & 13

5 p.m. Drury Lane Books Grand Marais www.drurylanebooks.com

June 4, Thursday

Emerald Ash Borer Workshop 9 a.m. Two Harbors Law Enforcement Center www.arrowheadinvasives.org

Your Camera in Action (Buttons & Knobs II) – Digital Photography Workshop

5:30 p.m. Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park, Ontario www.superiorvisits.com Pete Kavanaugh 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

June 5, Friday

Art & Ambiance: Live & Silent Auction Thunder Bay Art Gallery www.theag.ca

First Fridays Participating shops downtown

Grand Marais www.visitcookcounty.com Reina Del Cid 7 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

Birch Lake Babbitt www.ely.org

Duluth Superior Sailing Association Open House 12 p.m. Boat Launch, past the Park Point Recreation pier www.sailingforall.org

June 7, Sunday

Jim & Michele Miller 6:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

June 8, Monday

Jim & Michele Miller 9 p.m.

Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

June 9, Tuesday

Erik Berry from Trampled by Turtles 6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com

June 11-14

Findings: A Jewelry Symposium Grand Marais Art Colony www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

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Northern Enlightened Retreats

www.northernenlightenedadventures.com

June 12, Friday

Summer Beer Tastings Kickoff Yarn

June 17, Wednesday Culinary Tasting Menu

6 p.m. Waves of Superior Café Tofte www.wavesofsuperiorspa.com

Harbor Duluth www.yarnharborduluth.com Timmy Haus 8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com Pushing Chain 8 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Technology Open House

June 12-13

6:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

Portage Band 6 p.m. American Legion Grand Marais (218) 387-2974

Pete K Group 9 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern

Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

June 12-14

Boundary Waters Expo

Sea Gull Lake public landing Gunflint Trail www.visitcookcounty.com

June 12-Sept. 6

Sonny Assu: Interventions on the Imaginary Thunder Bay Art Gallery www.theag.ca

Jenna Brown: Still Echoes Resound

Thunder Bay Art Gallery www.theag.ca

June 13, Saturday Wildlife of the North Shore

10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org PlayCleanGo Day Educational materials on terrestrial invasive species located at nine state parks www.playcleango.org

Free Admission Split Rock Lighthouse and State Park Two Harbors www.sites.

mnhs.org

Maria Nickolay 7:30 p.m. Cascade Lodge

Pub Lutsen www.cascadelodgemn.com Pushing Chain 8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com

June 14, Sunday Shrimp Boil & Bake Sale

4 p.m. Sea Gull Lake Community Center Gunflint Trail (218) 388-9915

June 15, Monday

Briand Morrison 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

6 p.m. Grand Marais Public Library sharsin@arrowhead.lib.mn.us

June 18, Thursday Gordon Thorne

June 19, Friday

William A. Irvin 5K 6 p.m. Duluth www.grandmasmarathon.com Fort William Relay for Life Fort William Historical Park 6 p.m. Thunder Bay www.visitnorthwestontario.com Bird Banding Demonstration 7 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org

Cook County Historical Society’s Annual Fish Cake Dinner 5:30 p.m. St. John’s

Catholic Church Grand Marais www.cookcountyhistory.org

Willie Waldman Gypsy Jazz

8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com Michael Monroe 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

June 19-20

Rich Mattson and the Northstars 8:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

Rock the Big Top: Grandma’s

Marathon Celebration Canal Park Duluth www.grandmasmarathon.com

Earth, Wind and Todd 8:30 p.m.

American Legion Grand Marais (218) 387-2974

June 19-21

Wooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival North House Folk School Grand Marais www.northhouse.org

June 19-Sept. 6

Christian Chapman & Bev Koski Exhibit

Clearwater Historic Lodge Gunflint Trail www.clearwaterhistoriclodge.com Solstice Celebration 5 p.m. Sivertson Gallery Grand Marais www.sivertson.com Jim & Michele Miller 6 p.m. Poplar River Pub Lutsen www.lutsenresort.com Michael Monroe 7 p.m. Grand Marais Log Cabin www.michaelmonroemusic.com Bug Lite! 7:30 p.m. Cascade Lodge Pub Lutsen www.cascadelodgemn.com Eric Frost & Friends 8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com

June 21, Sunday

National Aboriginal Day Father’s Day Row by Row Demo Crystal’s Log Cabin Quilts Grand Marais (218) 387-3177

Schroeder Area Annual Meeting featuring guest speaker Tim Cochrane on Fur Companies 1 p.m. Cross River Heritage Center Schroeder www.crossriverheritage.org

Boundary Waters Archeology Presentation 2 p.m. Sea Gull Lake

Community Center www.chikwauk.com Father’s Day Festival Moguls Grille & Tap Room Lutsen www.caribouhighlands.com String Town Ambassadors 6:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com Eric Frost & Bill Hansen 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

June 22 & 29

Free Paddling at Bearskin Lodge, Nor’Wester Lodge and Voyageur Canoe Outfitters Gunflint Trail www.visitcookcounty.com

June 23, Tuesday June 23-28

Grandma’s Marathon & Half Marathon

Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com

Boostrom Classic Canoe Marathon

Interwoven: Baskets from the Permanent Collection Thunder Bay Art

9 a.m. Pioneer Mine Site, Dry Building Ely www.elygreenstone.org

Beth & Les 6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s

5 p.m. Drury Lane Books Grand Marais www.drurylanebooks.com

Robi Meyerson 6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s

Gallery www.theag.ca

June 16, Tuesday

www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

Writer’s Salon with Lauren Stringer

Thunder Bay Art Gallery www.theag.ca

June 15-17

Ely Greenstone’s Children’s Art Camp

Glass Demo Grand Marais Art Colony 1 p.m.

June 20, Saturday

Duluth www.grandmasmarathon.com

125th Birthday Celebration for the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Noon to Midnight, on the CLE Grounds Thunder Bay www.cle.on.ca

Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com

Woodland Chamber Music Workshop Surfside Resort Tofte www.woodlandchambermusic.org

June 24-28

Annual Peter Mitchell Days Babbitt www.ely.org

Northern Wilds Calendar of Events Bird Banding Demonstration 7 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org

June 25-27 Eleemosynary Play

Grand Marais Arrowhead Center for the Arts www.arrowheadcenterforthearts.org

June 26, Friday

Hedstrom Sawmill Tours 10 a.m. Hedstrom

Lumber Gunflint Trail (218) 387-2995

Northwoods Fiber Guild Show Reception 5 p.m. Johnson Heritage Post Grand Marais www.johnsonheritagepost.org

Evergreen Grass Band

www.parkpointartfair.org

June 28, Sunday

North Shore Health Care Foundation Annual BBQ 4 p.m. Gunflint Lodge on the

Gunflint Trail (218) 387-9076 Joe Paulik Band 5 p.m. Moguls Grille & Tap Room Lutsen www.caribouhighlands.com Jim Miller Band 6:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com

June 29, Monday

Summer Art Camp: Ages 5-7 & 8-10 Thunder Bay, Ontario www.theag.ca Joe Paulik 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

June 30, Tuesday

8:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com Rod Dockan 8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com Portage Band 6 p.m. American Legion Grand Marais (218) 387-2974 Joe Paulik 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Hedstrom Lumber Gunflint Trail (218) 387-2995 Fish Heads 6 p.m. Lighthouse at Emily’s Two Harbors www.lighthouseatemilys.com

June 26-28

Yvonne Caruthers 8 p.m. Drury Lane Books Grand Marais www.drurylanebooks.com

Kakabeka Falls Bluegrass Festival

at Kakabeka Falls Bible Camp, Ontario www. kakabekafallsbluegrassfestival.weebly.com

June 27, Saturday

Nature Photography; Wildlife & Macros— Photography Workshop 10 a.m. Sleeping

Giant Provincial Park, Ontario www.superiorvisits.com Children’s Day Kid-aimed tours and free admission ages 17 and under. Split Rock Lighthouse and State Park Two Harbors www.mnhs.org/releases Clay Demo 1 p.m. Grand Marais Art Colony www.grandmaraisartcolony.org Gordon Thorne 4 p.m. Superior National Golf Course Lutsen www.superiornational.com Eric Frost 7 p.m. Lutsen Resort www.lutsenresort.com Jim McGowan 7:30 p.m. Cascade Lodge Pub Lutsen www.cascadelodgemn.com

Jim & Michelle Miller

Weekly Events

Park Point Art Fair Duluth

Hedstrom Sawmill Tours 12:30 p.m.

July 1, Wednesday

Full Moon Musical featuring Cellist

Through July

Peregrine Watch Wed. & Sat. 11 a.m.,

Thurs., Fri. & Sun. 10 a.m. Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory Duluth www.hawkridge.org

Mondays

Live Music 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte

www.bluefinbay.com

Ontario www.tbayblues.ca

July 5, Sunday

Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center 5th Anniversary 5 p.m. Sea Gull Lake Community

Center, Gunflint Trail Volunteer Fire Department www.chikwauk.com

July 11, Saturday

Lundie Vacation Home Tour Cross River Heritage Center Schroeder (218) 663-7706

July 11-12

25th Annual Grand Marais Arts Festival www.grandmaraisartcolony.org

July 17-18

Fort Fest Music Festival Fort William Historical Park amphitheatre Thunder Bay, Ontario www.fwhp.ca

Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com West End Pizza Party 5 p.m. Birch Grove Community Center Tofte bgf@boreal.org Gordon Thorne & Bob Bingham 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Thursdays

Painting Adventures with Joi Electa

Tuesdays

3 p.m. The Garage Grand Marais www.joielecta.com

Live Music 9 p.m. Bluefin Grille Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Saturdays

Story Hour with the Muffin Man

11 a.m. Drury Lane Books Grand Marais www.drurylanebooks.com

Painting Adventures with Joi Electa 9 a.m. Trail Center Lodge Gunflint Trail www.joielecta.com

3 p.m. Gooseberry State Park Two Harbors www.joielecta.com Trivia Night 7 p.m. American Legion Grand Marais (218) 387-2974 Tuesday Nite Live 4 p.m. Ely Starting June 16

Joe Paulik Campfire Music 6 p.m.

Starting June 13-27

Fridays

7 p.m. Bluefin Bay Resort Tofte www.bluefinbay.com

Wednesdays

Painting Adventures with Joi Electa

Painting Adventures with Joi Electa 3 p.m. Temperance River State Park Schroeder www.joielecta.com

July 3-5

Blues Fest Marina Park Thunder Bay,

Open Mic 5 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern

JUNE 21 Sunday, 1:00 p.m.

The Schroeder Area Annual Meeting

Featuring Grand Portage Monument Superintendent Tim Cochrane speaking on the American Fur Company

Lutsen Resort www.lutsenresort.com

There’s No Place Like Home

1 p.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org

Joe Paulik Campfire Music

Sundays

Geology Walks 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove Schroeder www.sugarloafnorthshore.org

3 p.m. Cascade State Park Lutsen www.joielecta.com

ON DISPLAY THIS SEASON

Last Resorts

Through October 17

Artists Gallery

May 22- July 15

Bruce Palmer David DeGree and Marcie McIntire

8 p.m. Voyageur Brewing Grand Marais www.voyageurbrewing.com Evergreen Grass Band 8 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern Grand Marais www.gunflinttavern.com The 4onthefloor 9:30 p.m. Papa Charlie’s Lutsen www.lutsen.com

LUNDIE Vacation Home Tour ELEVENTH

June 25, Thursday

A Rare opportunity to see unique designs by Edwin Lundie!

The Tour: Schroeder/ Tofte Area Six Sites— All on the North Shore of Lake Superior

June 27-28

Lutsen 99er Lutsen Mountains www.lutsen99er.com

CROSS RIVER HERITAGE CENTER Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sun.1:00 - 4:00 p.m. • Closed Mon. 7932 W Hwy 61, Schroeder • 218-663-7706 www.crossriverheritage.org Brought to you by the Schroeder Area Historical Society

From Small Footprint to Livable! Architects on Tour

July 11, 2015 Plus… Our famous Picnic on the Ledge Rock

with beverage bar

$150 Donation

For further Information or to RSVP contact the Cross River Heritage Center

218-663-7706

Free and Open to the Public: 10 a.m. Schroeder Town Hall

Talk by Spike Carlsen (Carpenter, Woodworker, Author of A Splintered History of Wood and Cabin Lessons); Introduction by Dale Mulfinger (Architect, Author of Back to the Cabin, The Cabin, and Architecture of Edwin Lundie)

A fundraiser for the Schroeder Area Historical Society and Cross River Heritage Center (Home of the Lundie Room)

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Following the Fires From blackened earth a forest grows By Joseph Friedrichs

A recently burned area in the BWCA. | BRIAN KNUDSON

Technically, it’s just an imaginary line. However, the border separating the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from surrounding national forests and private and state land does more than restrict motor use on lakes and limit what canoeists can legally carry in their Duluth packs. It also determines how resource managers react to a forest fire and likewise how the area recovers after the fire is extinguished. Essentially, there is a difference in how a forest recovers from a fire based on how crews fight the blaze and also how the land is managed before and after the fire. Differing wildfire-suppression techniques are applied inside and outside of wilderness boundary, according to Kristina Reichenbach, a Superior National Forest public affairs officer. For example, outside the wilderness, fire crews can use a bulldozer to create a fuel break and work with a fire-engine pumper to protect someone’s property. Inside the wilderness, fire crews can paddle in, use hand tools to create fuel breaks and backpack water pumps to reinforce natural fuel breaks. “The [BWCAW] is managed to allow natural processes to occur with minimal human impact,” she said. “That means, after a wildfire, we do not take actions like replanting areas inside the wilderness.” Take the Pagami Creek Fire in 2011 for example. Areas burned by the largest fire in BWCAW history are recovering differently inside and outside of the wilderness boundary. This is a direct result of the various suppression tech34

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niques used during the fire. It also stems from replanting outside of the wilderness area after the fire. In addition, logging outside of the wilderness before the fire started affected how certain areas burned, at what temperatures and for how long. “Outside areas had salvage logging after the 1999 blowdown,” said Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, “and are also more likely to be second growth, which has more birch and aspen.” Regardless of where they burn, it’s important to remember that fires actually keep forests in the Northern Wilds diverse and robust. “Basically, fires in the Boundary Waters area keep the forest from becoming a stagnant, half-dead mass of stunted spruce and fir on a thick acidic blanket of moss,” Frelich said. “And over centuries and millennia, keep the lakes at a pH high enough that allows a variety of fish to survive.” Though merely mentioning the word “fire” can strike fear into the hearts and minds of landowners throughout the region – primarily due to what can happen to their property from a fire – it’s the most important natural factor shaping the ecology of the wilderness, according to Forest Service officials. “There is an understandable negative, sad, or even shocked reaction by many people to forest fires,” Reichenbach said. “The event itself may create fear and anxiety. A fire can dramatically change an area from what people are used to, and most people are unsettled by big changes.”

During the past decade there have been numerous forest fires throughout the BWCAW and Superior National Forest, including two major burns: the Ham Lake Fire in 2007 and the Pagami Creek Fire. Both fires were massive and burned thousands of acres. Although both were historically large, one major difference between the two fires is the enormous amount of property and man-made structures the Ham Lake Fire destroyed. Fire crews numbering in the hundreds battled each blaze, and while the fires raged, tension among people was high throughout the area. However, years later, those burn areas are thriving ecosystems. “All areas burned over during a fire eventually recover in some fashion,” Reichenbach said, “but to a range of conditions and different rates which are determined by the intensity of the burn, season, and types of vegetation present at the time of the fire or introduced after the fire. Most parts of the Ham Lake and Pagami Creek wildfires have healthy regeneration.” Jack pine, aspen and birch seedlings are presently thriving in areas burned by the Pagami Creek Fire, according to Frelich. In addition, blueberries, raspberries, fireweed and large-leaved aster are doing well. There are some spots in the Pagami Creek burn area where red and white pine are recovering after the fire. However, the blowdown followed by the fire seems to have almost obliterated red and white pines over large swaths of the landscape, according to Frelich.

And while there have been signs of a healthy recovery in many of the areas burned by large fires in the region, what will the forest here look like in 50 years? “It’s hard to say because of climate change. In absence of climate change it would return to a mixture of pine, aspen, birch and fir like it was before the fire,” Frelich said. “With the warming climate, red maple and oak could infiltrate the forest and boreal trees like black spruce and fir could be under stress.” If one desires to see what a fire-recovery area might look like in 50 years, they could visit, for example, the Roy Lake Fire area which burned nearly 4,400 acres near the end of the Gunflint Trail in 1976, Reichenbach said. In northeastern Minnesota, most of the forest is fire dependent and needs fire to regenerate. The plant and animal species that depend on trees are therefore also indirectly dependent on fire, Frelich said. The only non-fire dependent vegetation in the BWCAW are lichen communities on cliffs and swampy areas like black spruce-cranberry bogs, cedar swamps, tamarack swamps and ash swamps, according to Frelich. However, the chemistry of lakes depends on periodic fluxes of calcium and other minerals released during fires, as well as what types of forest grow in their watershed, which influences the chemistry of soil-water that eventually reaches lakes. So indirectly, even aquatic vegetation is fire dependent, Frelich noted. When it comes to animals and how they cope with forest fires, the short-term risk of a burning fire far outweighs the many positives a fire generates. “Moose do well starting two or three years after a fire because they eat the young aspen and birch saplings,” Frelich said. “Black-backed woodpeckers also like all the standing dead trees left after a fire in older spruce and pine forests.”

Ben Baker portages a burn area in the BWCAW. | BRIAN KNUDSON

Not only do certain plant and animal species thrive following a forest fire, but the blaze itself can actually control or shape how a forest looks. “There is a successional sequence after fire,” Frelich said. The first few years there are species that only appear after a fire on open sites, he continued, then birch and aspen or jack pine and black spruce come in and establish a new forest, which will eventually (after 150-200 years) succeed to spruce, fir, birch and cedar in the absence of fire. In the Pagami Creek recovery area, there are extensive birch and aspen forests growing. “Fire maintains the diversity of plants and animals at the landscape scale by creating a balance among successional stages, so that all are present at a given time,” he said. “It also maintains ecosystem function and productivity of forests and lakes by preventing accumulation of organic acids.” When it comes to monitoring fire recovery, the Forest Service approaches it through several stages. First, Reichenbach said, crews evaluate an area immediately after the fire to determine what, if any, recovery activities are needed. This includes restoring campsites or portages and potentially redirecting use of the land. In the case of a large wildfire, a Burned Area Evaluation Team of various resource specialists is assembled to prepare a formal report with recommended actions. Forest Service staff continue to annually monitor areas burned by fire, Reichenbach said. During these observations, crews conduct vegetation surveys, evaluate soil conditions, analyze water quality, watch for non-native invasive plants and observe visitor use. In the years following a large forest fire, it is extremely important people pay attention to directions from forest managers and officials, Reichenbach stated. This includes staying out of areas that are posted closed to allow fragile sites to heal, not picking plants or cutting green vegetation, staying on the designated portage trails and within the designated campsite foot print, she added. And while being proactive is sometimes a good thing— in the case of the Ham Lake fire many people volunteered

A trail passes through an area burned by the Pagami Creek Fire near the Isabella River. | MICHAEL MARQUART to help replant areas along the Gunflint Trail—in most instances nature is at its best when left alone. “The best thing that people can do is allow natural processes in the wilderness to do their job in recovery,” Reichenbach said. “Even though it may take more time than our impatient, human nature desires.” NORTHERN WILDS

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Bruce and Pam Block never set out to become wood-fired pizza pros. The pair moved from the northern suburbs of Chicago to Minnesota in the early nineties, and about a decade later, the couple opened Sydney’s Frozen Custard in downtown Grand Marais. The restaurant is an ode to the couple’s younger years, when their dates would consist of driving into rural Illinois and visiting ice cream shops. At the time, frozen custard was new to town and the treat was, and still is, a huge hit. The family-run business develops a custom-blended custard flavor for each customer. The desserts are made fast and fresh, and there are an infinite number of palate-proven combinations available like a blueberry Oreo blend or an espresso Heath mix. A few years back, the Blocks decided to expand their current menu and start serving dinner at Sydney’s, so they began exploring meal options that would pay homage to their Chicago roots. “It’s funny. We were going to do our Chicago-style thin-crust pizza, but a competitor beat us to the punch,” laughs Bruce. Seeking something unique to serve their customers, the pair thought that baking wood-fired pizzas would give them an edge without overlapping on the offerings from other local restaurants. The Blocks studied up on how to make superb Neapolitan pizzas - the quintessential wood-fired fare. Traditionally, those Italian pizza pies are small (about 12 inches in diameter), topped with minimal ingredients (often just sauce and cheese) and are slightly charred on the bottom. Neapolitan pizzas typically bake for two minutes in a super-hot, wood-fired oven and end up being somewhat soft and doughy in the middle where the toppings melt together. Sydney’s wood-fired pizzas are made similar to a traditional Neapolitan pizza, but the Blocks gave their recipes an American twist. Their cooks pile the pizzas high with simple, fresh ingredients. Some of those are tried-and-true Italian toppings, but often, the cooks incorporate unexpected flavors into the pizza by adding honey-crisp apples, gorgonzola cheese, fresh arugula and more. Perhaps most importantly, Sydney’s puts an emphasis on making dinner a dining exWOOD-FIRED cont. on page 38

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wood-fired pizza at the North House Folk School. | NHFS [FAR LEFT] Pizza toppings add great flavor to wood-fired pizza. | CALEB MATTISON [ABOVE] Sydney’s is open 11 a.m.8 p.m. Wednesdays-Mondays. | SUBMITTED [BOTTOM LEFT] Sydney’s owner Bruce Block shows his 2013 Hwy. 61 Reader’s Choice Restaurant Award for Best Pizza. | SUBMITTED NORTHERN WILDS

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WOOD-FIRED cont. from page 37 perience. “People watch us bake it, and it’s kind of a show,” said Bruce. “It’s a novelty because we put our pizza in the oven and you can actually watch it go through its metamorphic transformation.”

Cran-walnut sourdough bread. | NHFS

Other restaurants serving wood-fired fare Grizzly’s Wood-Fired Grill in Duluth Clyde Iron Works in Duluth Vitta Pizza in Duluth Ledge Rock Grille at Larsmont Cottages in Knife River Harbor House Grille in Grand Marais Heston’s Lodge on the Gunflint Trail Both Hands Wood-Fired Pizzeria & Bakery in Thunder Bay Pizzeria Primavera 61 (between the border and Thunder Bay) Papa Piccolino’s Pizza in Port Arthur

The transformation starts with a domeshaped oven that’s about four feet in diameter, twenty inches tall, and is piping hot (between 760 and 900 degrees). The pizza slides into the oven and the intense heat causes the moisture in the crust to flash to steam. The steam quickly expands the crust. Fifteen seconds in, the cheese begins to bubble and the ingredients sauté in the scalding sauce. Less than two minutes later, you have a sizzling pizza pie that’s ready to eat. “What’s neat about wood-fired pizza is that it allows you to serve real simple ingredients and brings out their flavors to the fullest,” said Block, who attributes the tantalizing taste primarily to the oven’s heat. He said the intense heat of the oven carmelizes the sugars in the crust, which keeps the crust moist and creates what Bruce calls a “completely different kind of bread experience.” The vivid flavor profile is also boosted by Sydney’s high-quality ingredients. Their flour is imported from Italy, their olive oil is from California, and the couple is committed to avoiding canned tomatoes. A restaurant selling wood-fired pizzas may be relatively new to Grand Marais, but North House Folk School has been offering wood-fired classes since it opened in the late nineties. Allen Scott, one of the godfather’s of the wood-fired bread bak-

Bread baking instructor Amy James helps a student during an Artisan Breads class. | CALEB MATTISON ing experience in the Americas, taught at North House for years.

oven (weighing in at one and a half tons) over the course of four-and-a-half days.

“The community that forms around a modern oven is nothing like the community that forms around a brick oven,” said Greg Wright, the executive director of North House, when explaining the draw to wood-fired foods.

“It’s not just enjoying the pizza by getting the sauce on your chin,” said Wright, “but by getting the flour all over your hands, the sauce on your chin, and for that matter, the brick dust on your clothes.”

Currently, the school features a wide variety of wood-fired classes. If you just want a taste of this rustic cooking technique, there are artisan bread-baking courses. Or, if you’re truly ambitious and want to learn about everything wood-fired, you can be part of a class that builds a brick

Wright says wood-fired cooking brings us back to our roots. “Cooking with fire is real. It’s present tense...The fire is here and now, the birch logs are here and now, the dough you create with your own hands is here and now.” Visit northhouse.org to get started.

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Steak

HARBOR HOUSE GRILLE

2nd Crooked Spoon Cafe 3rd Trail Center at Poplar Lake

Burger

BLUE WATER CAFE

2nd My Sister’s Place 3rd (Tie) Cascade Restaurant & Pub /Trail Center

Fish

DOCKSIDE FISH MARKET

2nd Angry Trout 3rd Naniboujou Restaurant

Pizza

SYDNEY’S FROZEN CUSTARD 2nd Sven & Ole’s 3rd My Sister’s Place

Breakfast

BLUE WATER CAFE 2nd Naniboujou Restaurant 3rd Cascade Restaurant & Pub

Wine

LUTSEN RESORT 2nd Crooked Spoon Cafe 3rd Harbor House Grille

Soup

Baked Goods

Kid-Friendly Menu

2nd The Pie Place 3rd Gun Flint Tavern

2nd World’s Best Donuts 3rd Naniboujou

2nd My Sister’s Place 3rd Naniboujou

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PIE PLACE

BLUE WATER CAFE

Salad

Ethnic Fare

Greens & Beans

2nd Crooked Spoon 3rd Gun Flint Tavern

2nd Hughie’s Tacos 3rd Masala Grille

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Caffination Station JAVA MOOSE ESPRESSO CAFE

2nd Fika Coffee House at the Grand Marais Farmer’s Market 3rd Mike’s Holiday

Music Venue

GUN FLINT TAVERN 2nd Papa Charlie’s Restaurant & Tavern 3rd Cascade Restaurant & Pub

GUN FLINT TAVERN

Use of Regional Ingredients ANGRY TROUT 2nd Duluth Grill 3rd Naniboujou

Sweets

GUNFLINT MERCANTILE

2nd Pie Place 3rd World’s Best Donuts

(Vegetarian Friendly) 2nd Cascade Restaurant & Pub 3rd Angry Trout

Artistic Flare from the Chef CROOKED SPOON 2nd Lutsen Resort 3rd Harbor House Grille

Server

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Beer Selection

2nd Melanie at Naniboujou 3rd Sara at Blue Water

2nd Poplar River Pub at Lutsen Resort 3rd Voyageur Brewing Co.

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2nd My Sister’s Place 3rd Sydney’s

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2nd Sydney’s 3rd Gun Flint Tavern

2nd Naniboujou 3rd My Sister’s Place

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Sun protection factor (SPF) is a measure of how well a sunscreen protects skin from UVB rays, the radiation type that causes sunburn, damages skin, and can contribute to skin cancer. An SPF 50 sunscreen blocks an estimated 98 percent of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Sample acknowledges that varying skin types can react differently to the sun’s rays. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Sunwise Program, sunburn can occur in less than 15 minutes on some skin types. Sample says, “We now know that if you get sunburned early in life, your chances of getting skin cancer later in life

Tips to safely enjoy the sun: • Aim for shade • Wear clothing that covers arms and legs • Put on a broadbrimmed hat • Wear wrap-around sunglasses • Apply SPF 30+ water-resistant sunscreen every 2 hours • Sunscreen shouldn’t be used to extend your time in the sun are much greater. It’s important for a parent to know that.” Adults also need sun protection–even when they don’t enter the water. (And no, simply wearing a baseball cap isn’t enough.) As with children, adults often aren’t accustomed to prolonged sun exposure. Being in a boat or on a dock can deliver a double sunburn whammy. When the sun is overhead, potentially burning rays reflecting off the water’s surface negate any protection a hat may offer. “People aren’t using sunscreen,” says Joyce Klees, a registered nurse at Sawtooth Mountain Clinic in Grand Marais. “They’re inside so much, they don’t protect their skin.”

Although Klees agrees that sunburns top the list of summer injuries along the North Shore, she’s quick to add what comes in at a close second. “Bug bites are huge among kids,” she says. “Bug bites and trying to figure out tick bites.” While most tick bites are harmless and don’t require medical treatment, some ticks can carry harmful germs and cause diseases. Pharmacist Bob Sample says, “We see a lot of people now who are getting treated for tick diseases with antibiotics. People should be careful in the woods. Lyme disease is a hard disease to treat and takes a long time.” Ticks do not fly or jump. Instead, they hang out on shrubs, bushes, and tall grass – waiting for people and animals to brush against vegetation so the tick can hitch a ride. Wooded areas are often dense with ticks. Your risk of being bitten by an infected tick is highest in the spring and summer. “There are a lot of tick diseases,” says Sample. Although many people cringe at the thought of ticks, as with protecting your-

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Editor’s Note: The following story contains violence. I’ve had a few weeks to digest this story, as it took place back in March of this year. But in my nearly 30 years of covering the outdoors beat, I’ve never covered a story like the one you are about to read. I believe it to be the strangest of my career. The story involves a lynx, a goat, a house owner named John Cox and his 15-yearold daughter Kelsay. It’s one of those stories that could only be true, as you can’t make this stuff up. The incident occurred on March 3, at about 10 a.m. John Cox had been out ice fishing, but came home and was in the basement. Cox said he saw that his daughter was phoning on his cell from the house he was in, and that was strange. “Dad,” she said to Cox, “there is a cat attached to the goat.” The chain of events that followed is like something out of a B-movie horror flick. It turned out that a lynx had attacked one of three pet goats that Cox owns. The lynx entered his yard in Dinorwic, east of Dryden, and then jumped on top of his largest nanny goat, Stella. The cat then started clawing and biting its neck. Cox, watching from inside his house, quickly went to get a rifle out of the cabinet. However, he was understandably shaken.

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me three times before it finally let go,” he said.

side, Cox was able to make a clear shot, to kill the lynx and “end the chaos.”

Cox said the cat then ran towards a window, and past his 15-year-old daughter Kelsay, to try and escape. More bedlam ensued.

“When you see a cat out in the bush, you look at it and say, ‘Gee, that’s a big cat,’” Cox said. “But when you see that cat in your living room and you’re comparing it to a couch and a chair, it is a very big cat. Its head came to above my hip.”

“In two bounds it leaps towards the corner and wipes out everything on the windowsill, smashing glass and it’s bleeding and falls to the ground,” said Cox. “I have a spinning lock and I’m trying to remember the combination during all this chaos,” he said. “But I was able to grab one of the rifles out.” When Cox opened his front door and tried to shoot the lynx with his old .303 British, the goat ran inside the house with the lynx still clinging to its bleeding back. Cox was unable to shoot and suddenly had a serious problem on his hands. “And now they are both inside my living room with the cat attached to her and she is kicking over furniture and spilling blood, and screaming,” Cox said. “And I’m like, ‘What does a guy do now?’” During the brawl Cox said he was able to knock the lynx off the goat by hitting it with the butt end of his rifle. But the cat was not anxious to lose its hold. “It took

When the lynx realized it was not free, it turned and started coming towards Cox. He told his daughter to run to her room, then—with the lynx two feet away – he swung his rifle like a bat, and hit the cat in the head. “I saw its eyes roll back in its head,” Cox said. Just when it seemed like that might be it for lynx vs. goat, there was another twist. Stella the goat returned, and was not a happy camper. Stella pushed Cox out of the way and then used her horns to flip the cat into the TV stand. “I just thought, ‘Is this ever gonna end?’” Cox said. Cox had to pull Stella off the lynx, as she was stomping and “horning” the cat, and then he dragged the badly bleeding goat outside. Finally, with Stella safely out-

Cox said Stella has now fully recovered from the injuries around her neck where the lynx dug in. It likely helps he is a trained paramedic who could dress the wounds and assess the injuries. Cox says feisty Stella the goat took a while to regain her composure and strength, but is pretty much back to normal now. Thanks in part to an interview I did with Cox on CBC radio, Stella became something of a national celebrity in Canada. A Dryden shop called Tattoo4U has come up with a lynx vs. goat T-shirt, and they are selling like hot cakes. Stella is also making an appearance later this summer (Aug. 27-29) at the Dryden Fall Fair. Stella will be appearing alongside the lynx, although this time, the cat will be in pelt form. Cox had the cat pelt tanned by a taxidermist as a memento. “We are going to hang the lynx pelt in the living room,” said Cox recently. ‘It will be a permanent reminder of the craziness. NORTHERN WILDS

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“This 650-mile water trail is our piece of Map showing the Path of the Paddle across Northwest the Trans Canada trail from Thunder Bay Ontario. | PATH OF THE PADDLE to Manitoba,” says Carrie Nolan, general manager of the not-for-profit Path of the Paddle Associa- years ago. The trail has 120 portages and 200 campsites and links five provincial parks, as well as remote northern tion. communities. The Path of the Paddle Trail was named for iconic Ca“The Path of the Paddle weaves wilderness and communadian canoeist Bill Mason, who died in 1988. He left nities together,” Nolan says. a legacy of books, artwork and films about many canoe journeys through the wilderness areas of Canada and the Currently, about 50 percent of the trail is complete. VolUnited States. unteers are clearing seldom-used portages and building From the trailhead at Fort William Historical Park in new campsites. Four regional trail committees will use Thunder Bay, paddlers will head down Kaministiqua River volunteers to maintain campsites and portages, similar to to Lake Superior, following the shoreline to Grand Portage. the system used to maintain the Superior Hiking Trail in After traversing the nine-mile portage, paddlers will canoe Minnesota. the Pigeon River and other waterways to Gunflint Lake, No one has paddled the entire route, but that will soon where the route turns north into Quetico Provincial Park. change. Two students were hired to make the trip this Leaving Quetico at Atikokan via a portage down main summer, talking about the trail with people they meet and street, paddlers will head north to White Otter Provincial sharing their experiences on social media. Nolan and her Park and the historic White Otter Castle, a three-story log husband will canoe the whole route, as well, planning to cabin. From there the water trail runs west to Dryden, complete it by next fall. She also will blog about the trip. then to Lake of the Woods and Kenora, finally heading Presently, Nolan has two tasks: coordinating the comdown the Winnipeg River to the Manitoba border, where pletion of the trail and publicizing the new route. Eventuit links with an overland trail. ally she hopes to provide potential paddlers with the tools While the Path of the Paddle is new, the water trails it they need to access and follow the Path of the Paddle, traverses have been used as wilderness highways for thou- such as a map series and a guidebook. Until then, you can sands of years, as evidenced by the ancient pictographs learn more about it at www.pathofthepaddle.com and on paddlers may encounter along the way. Parts of the trail Facebook. were included in the fur trade routes from hundreds of

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On the 30th, the great approach ends as Jupiter sweeps within 0.3 degrees, or just over half a full moon width, from Venus. The view will be terrific through binoculars or a small telescope. In the east, Saturn comes out after nightfall, next to the claws of Scorpius. Compare its color to that of Antares, the giant red scorpion heart southeast of the ringed planet, and also to Jupiter and Venus. June’s full moon arrives at 11:19 a.m. on the 2nd, hours after setting. Look for it in the west about an hour before sunrise that morning, or in the east around sunset that night. The University of Minnesota offers public viewings of the night sky at its Duluth campus. For more information and viewing schedules, see the Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium at www.d.umn. edu/planet.

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My law enforcement career covered a period from 1969 to 1997, with all those years except 1973-77 working in Cook County. Here I relate more about my first experiences as a sheriff’s deputy.

Times they are a-changin’ It’s late April in 1970 and I’ve returned to work in Grand Marais after completing police training. The sheriff I worked for was a good woodsman, a pilot and a better-than-average cabin builder. As a lawman, however, he hadn’t advanced with the changing times. He didn’t wear a sidearm and his wife dispatched for the sheriff’s department out of their home. The local police were kept out of the loop regarding the sheriff’s activity, unless the sheriff shared information. That, and the fact the sheriff’s department went home at 4 p.m. each day, created tension with the police and the state patrol. These thoughts were on my mind. I was curious how the investigation of the homicide that occurred in March was progressing. The crime had involved a married couple and their family, who had moved to Cook County a few months prior. The husband was a logger and they had settled in the Tofte area. The couple got into a domestic dispute that escalated into a physical confrontation. The woman stabbed her husband in the chest and he stumbled outside and down the driveway. A neighbor spotted him and rushed him to town, but he died.

It’s one thing to go into law enforcement thinking you’re going to enforce law and investigate criminal activity, but nobody said anything to me about search-andrescue or body-recovery in our large, rural wilderness area. That was an eye opener. The sheriff’s department had hired a private investigator out of Duluth to prepare the case. This man had done most of the leg work before I came home, so my participation in the case involved mostly court bailiff duties. Sitting through this trial and talking with the investigator was my initiation into serious criminal investigations. The woman was acquitted and I resumed patrol duties.

Increasingly vibrant era Looking back, it’s almost comical how far behind Cook County was when it came to law enforcement. The Gunflint Trail was bustling with activity. Many lodges were open and the forest had numerous logging operations going on. The west end of the county had the Taconite Harbor plant and community. This development brought many families to the county and resulted in the building of a new elementary school. The east end of the county was still getting used to the fact that Hwy. 61 had been built up along the lakeshore, and as a result, made the Grand Portage community more open to the public. Tourism was always a major ingredient of the activity in the county, and Hedstrom Lumber, with their mill and retail store operation, was a major employer. It was a vibrant period in the county.

Eye openers Two part-time deputies primarily worked the west end of Cook County. Other enforcement officers in the county included four U.S. Border Patrol officers,

two highway patrol officers, two game wardens and some state and federal foresters. In addition, the U.S. Coast Guard station was still an active facility that housed several coastguardsmen. The locals always thought there was too much enforcement. It was the late 1960s, and signs of the times were all around. Every day I would see several young men hitchhiking to Canada. (My guess was they were trying to avoid the Vietnam draft). It wasn’t long before some of our young people were introduced to the drug culture. Drugs that started showing up in Cook County included marijuana, hash, LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and amphetamines. It’s one thing to go into law enforcement thinking you’re going to enforce law and investigate criminal activity, but nobody said anything to me about search-and-rescue or body-recovery in our large, rural wilderness area. That was an eye opener. Bad things can happen to people in the forests and lakes, such as blueberry pickers who were never found, and a young lad who hitchhiked and walked up the Gunflint Trail in 1966 and disappeared forever. Two brothers allegedly drowned in Saganaga Lake during the summer of 1970. We found gear washed up on shore and dragged the portion of the lake we suspected they were in with grappling hooks. I recall thinking there must be a better way. We made no recovery.

drag grappling hooks out of a canoe in the deepest part of that lake. Again we made no recovery.

Hurt feelings, high tensions Another learning experience was the 1970 sheriff election. I had the impression most of the officers wanted a change in the office of sheriff. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the candidate running against my boss. Although I was still young and very inexperienced, I judged the character of my boss against the other candidate and committed to my boss. The opponent worked as a part-time police officer in Grand Marais. That added to the stress. The community was evenly divided and my boss won by only 10 votes. Feelings get hurt in those events–and they stay hurt for some time. These experiences were difficult but couldn’t match the frustration I felt on New Year’s Eve of 1971. While gassing up my squad at the start of my shift, I learned of a shooting in Grand Portage the night before. The victim was a popular young male in the community and tensions were running high. Once again, the private investigator from Duluth came up to work the case. This time, though, I went with him on his trips to Grand Portage and observed his techniques as he questioned people and built the case. I also had an opportunity to meet many of the local Grand Portage residents, which was helpful to me. I discovered that incidents such as these can really divide small communities and create scars that, in some instances, never go away. The shooter was convicted and sent to prison. While this case had been resolved, I felt uneasy about my role in our small department and wondered if there wasn’t something better suited for me. Should I leave and pursue work elsewhere or not?

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Propelled by wings, fins, legs and wind, life has found a way to Minnesota’s North Shore for more than 12,000 years. In this compelling, comprehensive, science-based – yet fully accessible – environmental history, readers learn how the area connects historical and contemporary actions of people. The authors remind us that the natural history of this extraordinary region is still being created and that all of us are the authors of this ongoing narrative. It examines five ecologically distinct areas: Headwaters, North Shore Highlands, Nearshore, Lake Superior, and Islands. —Deke Burnham

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ACCESS: There’s a boat landing in the southeast corner of the northeast basin of the lake. The road to the landing is about 10 miles up the Gunflint Trail from Grand Marais. There’s parking for about 20 vehicles.

VITALS: Minnesota DNR’s Lakefinder App lists 16 lakes named Elbow and two in Cook County. This Elbow Lake is not to be confused with the one on the Timber-Frear Canoe Route near Sawbill Landing. This Elbow Lake is about 408 acres, and is fairly shallow, with a maximum depth of 9 feet. “And you’ll be hard pressed to find that much water out there,” said Steve Persons, Minnesota DNR’s Grand Marais area fisheries supervisor.

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DNR stocked the lake in 2007 and 2009 with about 30 pounds of the fish each time. While the most recent survey showed their numbers to be low, they did find one bluegill that was at least 9 inches long. That survey also showed signs of natural reproduction. “It seems to be headed in the right direction,” he said. NORTHERN PIKE: “So Elbow isn’t the place trophy pike hunters would spend much time, but it does have quite a few of the toothy critters in it,” Persons said. “You can almost always catch northerns here,” he said. The shallow water, and lack of deeper water, is the limiting factor. “It doesn’t have a lot of cool water refuge that you’d want for big pike,” he said. GO SLOW: Persons warns newcomers to the lake about the shallow rock piles and reefs that have to be crossed to get to the main lake from the boat access. “You have to really proceed with caution,” he said. For that matter, most of the southern basin is quite shallow, and is generally choked with weeds later in the warm-water season. “There are fish in there, but you have to work hard to catch them,” he said. —Javier Serna

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“Not far from the rugged and stormwhipped north shore of Lake Superior, and south of the Kaministiquia, yet not as far south as the Rainy River waterway, there lay a paradise lost in the heart of the wilderness world.” James Oliver Curwood, A Country Beyond: A Romance in the Wilderness (1922). Before his death in 1927 at age 48 from blood poisoning, the American outdoor adventurer, conservationist and best-selling fiction writer of his time, James Oliver Curwood was one of the highest-paid authors in North America. Besides articles, he wrote 33 novels, more than 200 movie adaptations, and a non-fiction book. Most of his stories were based on his experiences as an adventurer in the Northern Wilds, stretching from northern Minnesota, Lake Nipigon and Thunder Bay to Hudson Bay, and later the northwest U.S., Canadian West and the Arctic. In her book, James Oliver Curwood: God’s Country and the Man, author Judith Eldridge writes that after Curwood and his second wife Ethel Greenwood married on September 27, 1909, in Owosso, Michigan, the couple took off for a long honeymoon at a cabin at the Post near Lake Nipigon (presumably Hudson’s Bay Company’s Red Rock) where Jim taught Ethel about back-country skills like hunting, snowshoeing and trapping. During that time, Jim also worked on his novel Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Published in 1911, the Mounties didn’t like it and banned the book and later the movie from Canada. Also in 1909, Curwood’s non-fiction book, The Great Lakes: The Vessels that Plough Them, Their Owners, Their Sailors and Their Cargoes was published. He had glowing praise for Minnesota’s mining industry, writing “For our iron has made iron men…. In that Northland, along the Mesabi, Gogebic and Vermilion ranges, from Duluth’s back door to the pine barrens of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, they have practically made themselves rulers of the world’s commerce in steel and iron.” Curwood was born June 12, 1878, in Owosso, Michigan. Although he was expelled from school at age 16, his childhood dream of becoming an author kept him writing. He later wrote, “While the minds of other school children were learning...I was building worlds, discovering conti-

Curwood Castle in Owosso, Mich. built by author James Oliver Curwood as a writing studio and now on the National Register of Historic Places. | WIKIMEDIA/JOANNA POE “Poverty, Agony, Destruction and Want” in his book, A Country Beyond; frequently travelled to Fort William and Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) as a starting point for his travels; and to visit and to check on the properties he had bought by bartering with local businessmen.

nents, braving the hardships and perils of fanciful exploration.” He studied journalism at University of Michigan before joining the Detroit News-Tribune in the early 1900s as a reporter, later becoming its managing editor. All the while, he continued writing stories, mostly about Great Lakes shipping, freighters, mariners, romance, pirates and shipwrecks.

A bonus for Curwood was being hired by the Canadian government for $800 (some reports say $1,800) a year, plus all expenses. His job? To explore Canada and write exciting adventure stories about the country as a way to encourage settlers to the Canadian West and North.

At the time, best-seller books were about the outdoors by authors who had lived the adventures. Curwood needed to find his literary hook and found it in northern Ontario after meeting Detroit-based Malcolm “Mac” MacInness from the Canadian Immigration Department. A jovial man passionate about the Canadian wilderness, he convinced Curwood to take a 1904 trip to the Thunder Bay-Lake Nipigon region to explore and experience for himself the northern wilderness. He resigned from the newspaper in 1907 to write full time, and a year later, his first two novels were published, The Courage of Captain Plum and The Wolf Hunters (about three explorers in the wilds of Lake Nipigon and Hudson Bay). Curwood became a regular visitor to northern Ontario, living the adventures

By the 1920s, Curwood was a world-famous, best-selling author, and ranked alongside Zane Grey and Jack London. He was heavily involved in making movies adapted from his books, had shifted to writing historical romances, and had become an outspoken conservation activist. Author James Oliver Curwood | PUBLIC DOMAIN while collecting research material for his writing. He paddled Lake Nipigon, visiting fur-trade posts like Wabinosh House; rode the rails of the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway, giving it the nickname

In 1922-23, he built his dream castle: a replica of a medieval Norman chateau on the banks of Shiawassee River, near his home in Owosso, setting up his writing studio in the largest turret. Now a museum, Curwood Castle is on the National Register of Historic Places. And the first weekend each June, Owosso hosts the Curwood Festival in his honor. NORTHERN WILDS

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Planting a forest for the future Story and photos by Joseph Friedrichs Luana Brandt carefully sorted through a collection of red-pine seedlings, paying close attention to their delicate branches. After choosing a young tree, she scoured the nearby forest for a perfect spot to plant it. After all, these trees, while tiny in the present, are extremely important. “There’s a chance these can be the future forest here,” Brandt said. “We have to remember that.” In an astonishing and perhaps noble tradition, four generations of the Brandt family have planted trees along the Gunflint Trail. Most of the trees have been planted on property the Brandts own, primarily along the Middle Gunflint. Luana, along with her husband, Carl, have owned and operated Nor’Wester Lodge since 1966, when they took over the family business from Carl’s parents. To say the Brandt family is among the most well-known and well-respected families on the Trail is an understatement. Carl, a wiry fellow in his mid-70s, can commonly be seen standing on high rooftops cleaning gutters or removing snow, hauling brush across the Gunflint or lugging a limit of walleyes from his favorite fishing holes. Luana, a teacher in the Grand Marais Public School system for many years, still makes dinners for groups of 20 or more at Nor’Wester. Both Carl and Luana embrace the tough way of life along the Gunflint. And when it comes to the enormous forest they call a backyard, few people understand the value of healthy trees better than the Brandts. “You don’t plant trees for yourself,” Luana said, when asked why she makes a point to enter tiny tree roots into the ground each spring. “We’ll probably never see any shade from these trees. You do it for the next generation. Or the one after that.” For the past several decades, the Brandts,

Luana Brandt of Nor’Wester Lodge stands beside a white pine she planted as a seedling. along with numerous other property owners throughout Cook County, have been greatly assisted by the Hedstrom Lumber Company and a program it offers each year, focused on planting new trees. In short, staff at the lumber company buy trees and give them away for free. The goal is to help maintain a sustaining ecosystem in the Superior National Forest and the

surrounding area. The program started in the mid-90s and gives away approximately 25,000 trees annually, according to Howard Hedstrom, president of Hedstrom Lumber. And while the average number of trees given away each year is 25,000, on certain years that number has doubled.

Most of the trees given away in the program are red pine, though some white pine and white spruce are also available. Property owners throughout the county email or call representatives at Hedstrom and essentially put in an order for what trees they want. Think of it as a much healthier

“The idea was to get people feeling good about growing trees,” Hedstrom said.

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FOREST cont. from page 51 version of calling for takeout pizza, with the bonus of a long-lasting payout. “Most of the trees usually get reserved out each year,” Hedstrom said. “It’s been a great project for us.” The trees, which are tiny seedlings at the time of pickup, typically come in orders of 25, though participants are allowed up to 200 annually. Most of the trees come from a PRT company nursery in Canada, near the Dryden area, Hedstrom said. The program got its roots when an attorney for Hedstrom Lumber had an idea on how to improve the business’s public image. “We were thinking of some ideas and the (attorney) leans back and says ‘Plant a tree,’” Hedstrom said. “We turned that thought into the tree giveaway.” The Brandts have participated in the tree-seedling giveaway every year since its inception, Luana proudly stated. During that time, she has planted “too many trees to remember.” In addition, Luana and Carl’s daughters and several grandchildren have planted trees that came from Hedstrom’s giveaway. Some years the planted trees take root and grow at an almost un-

believable rate. Other years, depending on weather, rainfall and how well each tree was planted, the trees have a harder time surviving. Overall though, Luana said, most of the trees take root and have helped maintain a thriving forest on their property. After the epic blowdown storm of 1999 ravaged many swaths of land in northeastern Minnesota, Luana said Hedstrom’s tree giveaway was more important than ever. “We all just felt sick looking at parts of the forest after the blowdown,” she said. “But some of the trees we planted after the storm are really coming into their own now. It’s incredible to see, really.” Some of the trees the Brandts have planted via the giveaway now stand an impressive 15 feet tall, including a healthy white pine near the main lodge at Nor’Wester. “This is an incredibly generous program and something the folks at Hedstrom don’t have to do,” Luana said. “It’s not cheap buying all these trees every year, and without this we probably wouldn’t be planting so many trees up here. So I’m proud to live in a community where trees are important.”

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opportunity to own a private wilderness escape. 2 BRs, full kitchen, comfortable living room and large deck. Large open yard, sauna, storage shed and dock. Great privacy, 200’ of shoreline, abutting the BWCAW. Water access. MLS #30184 $199,000.

NEW! GREAT POPLAR LAKE CABIN. Large 2.11 acre par-

cel w/charming cabin sitting at water's edge has long view down the lake to west. Redone kitchen; one BDR with huge windows, living room with great view and stone fplc w/ wood stove. Room to build new house overlooking lake, and garage site. Composting outhouse plus shower house. Septic sites located. Great sand bottom and drop off for swimming. MLS #6003945 $194,900

NEW! PIKE LAKE - SHARED EXPENSES. This clean and neat 2

bedroom cabin sits privately within a common interest community shared with 4 other cottages. The Pike Lake views are great, large deck, 8 x 16 storage shed which sits on a garage lot if you want to build one. The shared 300 feet of shoreline is great for boats, canoes and swimming. MLS# 6003678 $194,900

SOLITUDE ON LOON LAKE.

These lots are located on the south side of Loon Lake and offers great lake views. The main road is in place and power is on the lot line. These lots offer a great shoreline and many nice trees.

MLS #6001605, 6002124, 6002128 $192,000 NEW! SPECTACULAR BUILDING SITE W. BEARSKIN LAKE. Beautiful views,

dense forest and direct BWCAW access. High building site affords spectacular views, level shoreline has lots of room for the dock and boats. Newly installed stairway system makes for easy access to the shore. MLS#6003655 $178,000

QUALITY DEVIL TRACK LAKE LOT.

Heavily wooded south shore lot with 150’ of shore. Easy shoreline, great views, excellent building sites. Power/phone. More shoreline available. MLS #6001770 $149,900. GREENWOOD LAKE Lovely, wooded lot on desirable Greenwood Lake. High elevation with spectacular views of the whole lake, bays and islands. This lot is surveyed, has a new driveway and turn around.

MLS#6002946 $119,000 LOT 8, NINEMILE LAKE

Enjoy expansive views from this parcel that features a spectacular point with 548' of shoreline. Property features 2.3 acres with ledgerock outcroppings, mixed tree cover, and outstanding views. For added privacy, lot adjoins State of MN lands for undeveloped shoreline as your neighbor to the south. MLS #6003205 $97,900

MID-TRAIL SOUTH FACING LOT In a private development of 11 lots

surrounded by US Forest land. Heavy tree coverage of mature of red and white pine and cedar. Minutes from the amenities of the mid Gunflint Trail area. MLS #6003402 $99,000

NEW! TOM LAKE CLASSIC.

The original "Grandpa's Cabin" nestled in the woods right at the water's edge. Cute, the perfect getaway from town or work on those lazy days of summer. MLS #6003936 $89,900

SISTER LAKE PARCEL. Nice lake lot with good tree cover, high and level building sites. High point has awesome views. Excellent shoreline, partial driveway already in place.

MLS #6003499 $89,600 LOT 1, NINEMILE LAKE

End of the road, large lot adjoins Superior National Forest and Cabin Creek Unit Roadless area. Great trees, views and building site. Power, year-round round access. MLS #6003203 $89,300

CASCADE RIVER PROPERTY.

If you're looking for peace, quiet, and beautiful wilderness views, this could be the location for you. Off the beaten path, yet good access. Good building sites on 25 acres overlooking the beautiful Cascade River.

MLS #6002440 $84,900 TROUT HAVEN. Six nicely wooded, west-facing lakelots on Hare Lake. Starting at $59,000. NEW! GREAT LOT – TOM LAKE. End of road privacy on Tom Lake. Lot

16 on Wilderness Shores. There is a long curved driveway to a cleared build site. Beautiful wooded lot that has its own bay/cove. The lake is a great walleye fishery and a wonderful getaway for family with kids.

MLS #6003955 $50,000 FLUTE REED RIVER PROPERTY

Very nice property for your homestead or retreat. The river meanders through with a perfect build site. Heavily wooded. Electric at the road. Year round access. MLS #6003200 $45,000

SNOWSHOE RUN LOTS

Snowshoe run is set along a high ridge overlooking Hare Lake in a mature northern hardwood forests. Year-round plowed and maintained county roads, power at each property and a clear water, trout lake. These beautiful home sites were planned for generations of enjoyment and are protected by covenants. MLS# 6003206 thru 6003212

Prices start at $24,900

CONDOMINIUMS SEA VILLA-LAKE SUPERIOR Walk into this Sea Villa

and you'll feel as if you're walking right into Lake Superior it's so close to the water's edge! The entire main floor has been tastefully remodeled inside and out. Over $35,000 worth of improvements make this home stylish, comfortable & inviting while still holding onto the North Shore charm. Successful rental revenue is a big plus, too!! MLS #6003518 $249,900

PANORAMIC VIEWS Unit 11A

and 11B at Terrace Point offers buyers an opportunity to enjoy panoramic lake views and Lake Superior experiences. Architectural designs inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and John Howe. There are numerous built in furnishings built to a high standard. MLS#6002759

$235,000 & MLS#6002760 $215,000 LAKE SUPERIOR CONDO/TOFTE. Great lake

views from this 2 bedroom + loft unit with 2 baths, fireplace, balcony looking up the shore. Chateau LeVeaux offers many updated amenities, indoor pool, sauna, game room, and on-site manager. MLS #6003522 $100,000

CONDOMINIUMS COASTAL CHARM This gorgeous lower level unit walks right out to Lake Superior and has been updated and refreshed with quality finishes like cork flooring, rainfall shower head and a cool spa bathroom. Open concept floor plan with a seashore cottage vibe and lovely furnishings. MLS #6003574 $81,900

LOG CABIN CHARM This gorgeous lower level unit walks out to Lake Superior and has been updated with top-notch finishes. Open concept floor plan, bamboo flooring, stainless steel appliances, and stunning log cabin walls in the bedroom. Beautifully decorated--for the right price this unit could come fully-furnished, allowing new owners to begin earning rental revenues immediately. MLS#6003575 $81,900 UNIT 11, CHATEAU LEVEAUX. This lower level unit is priced to sell! Beautiful views of Lake Superior, and walk right out and hear the sounds of the surf. One-bedroom, one bath unit, with futon in living room to allow flexible space for overnight guests. Or your guests can stay in the motel units within building at reduced owner rates. This is a terrific opportunity to own a piece of the big lake at an affordable price. Unit comes with furnishings, so new owners can begin earning revenues almost immediately, offsetting their cost of ownership. MLS# 6003472 $54,500

HOMES & CABINS COUNTRY HOME WITH HUGE SHOP AND APARTMENT. Quality home on secluded 20 acres

in maple forest. Sunny living/kitchen area. Expansive master loft-suite. Huge deck with large yard and open mature woods. 3-car garage. 3100 sq ft. shop/office/apt. perfect for cottage "industry" or other creative use. More land available. MLS# 6002767 $599,000

LOG HOME PRIVACY - FLUTE REED RIVER. Tucked away on 10 heav-

wooded is your dream log home and LilyEN G acres SAD I hide-a-way. There is a charming studio cabin for PEN your hobbies or for guests, a large 2-car detached

garage with attached living space, and a 24 X 30 pole building. Lovingly built by the seller, you'll notice the quality, care and custom details. MLS# 6003351 $336,500

BEAUTIFUL GRAND MARAIS DUPLEX Stately

family home in Grand Marais, with large rental income unit. Total of 5-bedrooms, 3-baths, and 2 two-car garages on an extralarge corner lot with city services. Upper level is beautiful and spacious, and includes 3 beds, 2 baths, lovely finishes and tons of storage. Lower level unit has 2 beds, 1 bath, separate entrance and laundry, and attached garage. Large landscaped yard with potting shed and detached, insulated garage. MLS# 6003600 $324,900

LARGE HOME - GREAT VIEWS.

E recently remodeled home has it all. It’s LThis SAD NG located in town with incredible views conveniently I EN Lake Superior. The home features 4 bedrooms and 3

bathrooms. MLS#6003563 $247,000 COUNTRY LIVING. Enjoy peace and calm with true country living. Charming rambler nestled in 26 acres of meadow and woods. Plenty of storage, built ins, and garage space, even a heated studio!

MLS #6002460 $242,500 COUNTY ROAD 60 - GRAND MARAIS. Earth home with over 5 acres and

a creek. South exposure with stone hearth and charming details. 4 BR, 3 BA with a 2-car detached garage. Updated and remodeled with many custom features. This home is designed for the person who wants to live the rural, energy-efficient lifestyle. MLS #6001812

PRICE REDUCTION! $219,000

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HOMES & CABINS SUNNY DISPOSITION.

Country home on 10 acres in Hovland area. Bright and sunny living room, with beamed cathedral ceilings, open floor plan, new flooring, updated kitchen with new appliances. Master bedroom with bath, 2 lower level bedrooms with family room. Large open and private yard. Large 2-car garage with workshop. MLS#6003557 $208,900

BRIGHT AND SUNNY HOME – LUTSEN. Large

windows bring the southern light into this Lutsen country home. Enjoy the eat-in kitchen plus the formal dining area. This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has a nice yard on a quiet road in a great location. Seller has made many upgrades and improvements. Now with a new price! Owner/Agent. MLS 6003953 $199,000.

COUNTRY LIVING ON 2 ACRES. Minutes to Grand Marais. Well built

well maintained rambler. 3 bedrooms, One LENand G level living with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a full SAD I basement for future expansion.New steel siding, N E P

exterior doors and gutters. Very nice deck off the living room. 30 x 40 detached garage for all your storage needs. MLS 6003401 $195,000

SECLUDED RETREAT CAMP 15 LOOP. This 2 bdr, home

sits on 77 acres and features all the creature comforts with solar power and shower house, There’s a large 2-car garage with workshop plus 2 guest cabins that provide plenty of space for the whole family or group. Trails, solitude and wilderness – a perfect place to live remotely or as basecamp for your adventures. MLS# 6001657 $174,900.

GREAT TOFTE LOCATION. Quality built one-level home has 2

bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, full basement and attached heated garage. New tile and carpet flooring. Nice deck off the dining room with a large private back yard. Huge spruce trees give lots of privacy. Commercial zoning if you want to run your business here. MLS# 6003116 $159,500

NEW! CABINS IN THE WOODS. Here is a charming spot to spend

your weekends on the Gunflint Trail. Only a stones throw to Gunflint Lake with nice views of the lake and Canadian shore, this 9 acres is nicely wooded and feels secluded. There is a super charming log sauna and two small cabins, ready for you to move in. A storage shed and outhouse are included, too. It adjoins federal land and you could walk to the BWCAW, or drive to the public landing just down the road. A simple escape located in the heart of the Trail. MLS 6003821 $132,500

LOG CABIN - ROILING RIVER. This log home sits on the scenic Flute Reed River

in Hovland, just a short walk to Lake Superior's shore. The seasonal cabin has a great screen porch, modern kitchen and comes furnished with cabin-style furnishings and sportsman's décor. +/- 400' of dramatic river frontage. You can't beat the sound of a North Shore river! MLS #6003153 $129,900.

TUCKED AWAY SECLUSION.

This well built, one story, one room cabin is tucked away on 40 acres, and just a stones throw from Magney State Park. There's a small creek with some beaver ponds; Good seasonal road access. MLS#6003580 $127,900

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CABIN - IRISH CREEK ROAD. Beautiful recreation, hunting, nicely forested land that hasn't been logged since early 1900. Seller is a musher and has trails throughout property and old logging roads on adjoining state lands. MLS#6002992 $67,500

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES NEW! THE GUNFLINT MOTEL IN GRAND MARAIS is a

long-established business located just a block from the harbor and downtown shops and restaurants. There are 5 large motel units with kitchens, plus a full lower apartment in the motel structure. All are in great shape. There is also a 4 bedroom, 2 bath owner's home that has had many recent updates and enhancements. It features views of the harbor and provides a comfortable and private residence. This home and business are a great situation for a couple wanting to supplement their income and enjoy living in beautiful Grand Marais. MLS 6003528 $419,000

BIG OPPORTUNITY, MANY POSSIBILITIES.

Prime commercial location in Hovland, 1000 feet of Highway 61 frontage. Large commercial space operating as a gift shop, with a small 2 bedroom home and 1 functioning rental cottage. Many new improvements and upgrades. Two more small cabins could be rented, and there's room for many more...or other possibilities. Large 2-car garage plus two sheds, also. This site has been a centrally located historical business location and has many options for your entrepreneurial pursuits. MLS 6003889 $299,900

NEW! GRAND MARAIS PROFESSIONAL BUILDING. The

options here are endless and the opportunity is great. The building has most recently been occupied by law offices. Ample parking, grassy, yard-like grounds and a nice sized storage building create a nice setting for a variety of business ventures. Several of the offices walk out to the back yard and the overall feel is one of warmth & professionalism. Own/ occupy the entire building, rent out one side & offset your ownership costs, create "condo offices" & offer space to a variety of entities....so many avenues one could take!! The building is in wonderful condition and is ready for business. MLS 6003947 $269,900 CEDAR GROVE BUSINESS PARK LOTS. Cedar Grove Business Park is the ideal location for your existing business or new start-up! Conveniently located in Grand Marais, near the start of the iconic Gunflint Trail. Full infrastructure in place including paved streets, municipal sewer and water, electric and telephone. Call us today for a guided tour of this unique and affordable business park opportunity. COMMERCIAL LOTS IN LUTSEN. Two commercialzoned lots fronting Hwy. 61 in Lutsen across from Lockport Store. Great visibility, nice forest, lake view. Third lot to north is zoned residential. Bring your business idea! MLS# 6003506 $179,000

RIVER/CREEK FRONTAGE STUNNING RIVER - PINCUSHION TRAILS. A

unique opportunity for skiers and hikers. Trail easement runs through the property. The RC zoning allows for a resort/lodging type business.

MLS #6003390 $103,900.

40 ACRES - MONS CREEK FRONTAGE. Easy road access. Good building sites. Mature trees. Deeded access to Lost Lake. MLS #6002120

$74,900 40 AC – LOST LAKE RETREATS. Mons Creek flowage with great

views and tons of wildlife. Private and secluded location. Includes deeded access to private lake. MLS #6002121 $74,900. WOODS, WATER & SECLUSION. Nice ‘40’ with good timber and 1000’ frontage on Mons Creek. Great building site. Private deeded access to Lost Lake.

MLS #6002119 $64,900. GRAND MARAIS - CITY LOT ON CREEK. Wooded lot with City services: water, sewer and electric at site. Nice south exposure and frontage on scenic Cedar Creek. Quiet street. MLS #6001830 $63,900 LAND ON THE FLUTE REED RIVER Enjoy privacy and seclusion in a deep 13 acre parcel with over 300 feet of trout stream. County road with power, phone and broadband available. Good sites to build your home or cabin in the woods. MLS#6002960 $49,900

LAND/BUILDING SITES RECREATIONAL BASE CAMP. Great Tofte lot has 2 garage buildings. They could easily become living space, one has a second story. Property has room for a home with views of a dramatic creek gorge with waterfall and Lake Superior view. 4.54 acres, yearround road, power, phone. MLS# 6003751 $179,900 EIGHTY ACRE RETREAT Schroeder. 80 acres of prime

hunting land in Schroeder, MN. Rolling land with wonderful wildlife habitat including stream, beaver dam with large pond, and a good mixture of trees and low vegetation. Good access on Zeke's Trail which divides the 2 40 acre parcels. Older 2 bedroom cabin in a beautiful park like setting overlooking large beaver pond and distant horizons. Call today to make this piece of Hunter's Heaven your own. MLS 6003804 $142,500 LARGE PARCEL Lake Views. Large private parcel with possible subdivision potential. Great Lake Superior views on the higher elevations. A small creek runs through part of the 25 acre property. Priced way below assessed value. Good location close to Grand Marais.

MLS 6003976 $124,900 INTRIGUING PROSPECT.

How often can one buy a build site that has all of the sub-structure in place? High-quality items already in place include an insulated/heated slab for house/porch, insulated garage slab, electricity, driveway, the well, a time-dosed/heated septic system. Over 18 acres of privacy, beauty and solitude. Priced well below what the seller has put into this property.

MLS# 6003658 $119,900 NEW! READY TO BUILD Sug-

erloaf Road. Driveway and building pad already in place. A red pine forest climbs up to the highest point with stunning views of high ridges and valleys. Also a mix of birch & gorgeous cedars. Walk to the Superior Hiking Trail or Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center & stroll the shore of Lake Superior. MLS# 6003876 $99,900 MAPLES, VIEWS, PRIVACY. 85+ acres near Hovland. Good end of road access, adjoining tons of federal land., great view of pond. South exposure and views. MLS#6003156 $99,900

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REAL ESTATE SALES

PROPERTY MGMNT

200 Whipporwill Lane, Hovland MN • 23 + acres 1 bedrm rustic home with electricity • Large pole building and detached 1 car garage • Nature trails, ponds, seasonal lake view, private retreat • Price $179,900

18 Crosswind Trail, Tofte MN

208 Fireweed Lane Great home or vacation home with rental availability. This beautiful sunny 3 BR, 2 BA home has in floor heat on main level with floor to ceiling stone gas fireplace. Pine ceilings throughout adds to the charm of up north living. With 2 secluded patios great for enjoying warm summers. Walk across street to deeded access of 900 ft lakeshore on Devil Track Lake. Only 8 miles to Grand Marais. Sold furnished.

RMLS# 4590545 $249,900

• 3 bedrm-1.75 bath home built 2007 • Large wood burning fireplace • Granite counters, slate flooring • 2 acre lot adjacent to state land • Price: $239,900

6522 Aspenwood Drive, Tofte MN • 3 bedrm – 3 bath Condo – built 2004 • 2400 sq ft of luxury living on Lake Superior • Owner/broker • Price: $339,900

Judy Motschenbacher, Broker | 218-370-8940 | motsch@boreal.org

LAND/BUILDING SITES CARIBOU LAKE - HOME SITE. New price is well below tax assessed value, and seller is open to offers. Magnificent, old-growth cedar and maple trees frame a corner lot with a great, high build site on Sawmill Bay.185' of lake frontage. MLS# 6002756 $98,000 ACREAGE OVERLOOKING GUNFLINT LAKE.

Privacy near the BWCAW with 27 acres and outstanding views of Gunflint Lake and the Canadian shore. Fronting the Mile-O-Pine Road with power, phone and Broadband available. Subdivision potential. MLS 6003421 $95,000 DEVIL TRACK AREA PARCEL. Very nice 10 acre lot with direct access to South Shore Dr. Driveway to a cleared area that could be used as a building site. Slightly rolling terrain with moderately heavy growth that includes every type of Boreal Forest tree! MLS#6003184 $89,000 5 ACRES - WALK TO LAKE. Deep wooded home site – just steps from Devil Track Lake, and DNR access. Enjoy the lake without the high taxes! MLS #6002697 $72,500.

MAPLE HILL - HOME SITE. Heavily wooded parcel with great privacy, county rd frontage, power and phone. Super location for your home or vacation retreat. Walk to golf course, easy access to Gunflint Trail or Devil Track area. MLS# 6002601 $70,500 THIRTY ACRES - PANORAMIC VIEWS. Here is

one of those rare mountain tops with a 180 degree view of distant Lake Superior and the ridge to the north. It's spectacular! Trails are in place to walk the whole perimeter. There is a cleared easement in place to get to the property. MLS# 6003353 $68,900

10 ACRES - GRANDLMARAIS. Great piece of property E on Pike Lake A Marais, located minutes fromS Grand Rd. Seasonal view of G N DIsites. Lake Superior. Many MLS #6001078 $64,900 PEniceNbuild

HOME SITE - COUNTY ROAD 6. Beautiful 5-ac lot just minutes from town. Meadow. Shed and pond. Driveway in. Power/phone. MLS #6003084 $59,900.

NEW! BUILDING LOT GRAND MARAIS. A rare find. This

lot is located on 8th Ave W in the heart of town with easy walking distance to the harbor and business district. All city services are at the street. There's even good potential for a lake view. Build your home here and enjoy living in the heart of "America's Favorite Small Town". MLS 6003862 $54,900

NEW! REMOTE 40 – POWERS LAKE ROAD. This is the beautiful '40'

that you have been waiting for. Easy access off Powers Lake Road. Electricity and broadband scheduled for 2016-a real bonus! This is a fine opportunity for the person seeking a remote retreat with some modern amenities.

MLS 6003811 $42,000 WONDERFUL VIEWS OF LAKE SUPERIOR!

3 lots available; wooded and private. Minutes to ski hill, Superior National, Lutsen shops and Oberg Mt. Surveyed, year round access. MLS #6002918,

6002919,06002920 Priced at $42,000. FORTY ACRE PARADISE. Mixed topography of beautiful rolling land with many great build sites. Old growth cedar, spruce, pine and birch. Mons Creek meanders through the property border where it abuts State land.

MLS #6003078 PRICE REDUCTION! $39,900 WOODED 2.4 ACRE Tait Lake back-

lot with driveway in and cleared building site ready for your cabin get-a-way. Electric is on site. Owner/ Agent. MLS# 6003727 $49,000

NEW! GREAT 4-ACRE HOME SITE NEAR HOVLAND. Close to Lake Superior, with

some views, nice forest, easy access off of Highway 61 on shared driveway. MLS# 6003692 $47,900

BUILD YOUR HIDE AWAY Wooded 20 acres, it's a short walk to Magney State Park. Adjoins listing #6003580 with small cabin on 40 acres. MLS #6003581 $42,000 OFF THE BEATEN PATH. Can't beat this property for remoteness. If it's seclusion you seek, this wilderness 19-acre recreational property is for you. Surrounded by State & USFS lands. Hike in access from Devil Fish Lake. MLS#6002961 $37,000. RECREATIONAL PARCEL IN HOVLAND. 43+ E on Tom Lake. Survey complete; may acres close to the public landing SAL G I subdivide into two 20+ acre N parcels. Road plowed year round in ND E P special taxing district. Owner/Agent. MLS #6001471 PRICE REDUCTION! $30,000 NEW! FIVE SECLUDED ACRES. One of eight secluded and heavily wooded 5-acre parcels bordering on thousands of acres of US and State of Minnesota Forest land. Yet, only 20 minutes from the amenities of the Lutsen area. An additional 5 acres may be available.

MLS 6003981 $28,000 REMOTE PRIVACY Remote is what you're looking for, look

no further. Forty beautiful acres abutted by thousands of acres of Federal land. Adjoining property is currently listed (MLS# 6001657). Buy it all and assure maximum privacy.

MLS #6003593 $26,500 NEW! HOME SITE – TOFTE. A nice lot in a residential

development near the the business and services hub of Tofte. Surrounded by thousands of acres of US and Minnesota State Forests. Minutes from Temperance River State Park. A great location to build your North Shore getaway.

MLS 6003654 $24,750

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Lori A. Backlund Real Estate Agent

Phone: 218-387-1501 Cell: 218-370-8977 Terry@BacklundRealty.com 120 E. 3RD ST. GRAND MARAIS

387 MOOSE VALLEY RD. HOVLAND

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10 HAMMER RD. HOVLAND MN

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Classic Mid-Century Modern 1900 Sq. ft. 2 Bed 1 Bath 1 Car MLS# 6003984 Price: $224,000

4 Bedroom 3 Bath 2 Car Garage plus large heated 40 x 32 garage/ workshop on 7.76 Acres MLS# 6003983 Price: $227,750

Super charming north shore bungalow 18 x 12 shed, sauna and gazebo MLS# 6003973 Price: $98,900

167 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE DEVIL’S TRACK LAKE GRAND MARAIS

50 GRACE DRIVE LAKE SUPERIOR GRAND MARAIS

253 SOUTH SHORE DR. DEVIL’S TRACK GRAND MARAIS

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419 N. BROADWAY GRAND MARAIS

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4 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car 1238 sq. ft. plus basement MLS# 6003637 Price: $184,500

1846A CAMP 20 RD. HOVLAND

Sale g in d n e P 310XXX SODERBERG LN.

20 wooded acres priced to sell. MLS# 6002983 Price: $14,000

BIRCH LAKE

202 ft. lake shore lot on 5 acres. Driveway and build site. MLS# 6002970 Price: $129,000

PRICED TO SELL! 474X SOUTH SHORE DR., GRAND MARAIS

1915 sq. ft. 3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Beautiful Devil’s Track lake shore MLS# 6003933 Price: $344,000

4 Bed 3 Bath 2 Car 3500+ sq. ft. 250 ft. Lake Superior shore MLS# 6003894 Price: $624,900

4 Bed 2 Bath 3 Car 2900+ sq. ft. home Plus guest cabin all on 200+ ft. lake shore MLS# TBD Price: $379,950

Very nice 5 acre parcel near Devil’s Track abuts Fed land. MLS# 6002390 Price: $42,500

135 BALLY CREEK RD GRAND MARAIS

79 CTY. RD. 44 GRAND MARAIS

1010 E 7TH AVE GRAND MARAIS

7412 GUNFLINT TRAIL GRAND MARAIS

New Price

2 bedroom, 2 bath log home. Wraparound deck on 10 acres. MLS# TBD Price: $234,500

10 acre parcel with 24 x 24 garage with rustic studio apt. and well MLS# 6003780 Price: $119,900

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4 bedroom 2 Bath 2 Car Garage 2800 sq. ft. of quality craftsmanship. MLS# 6003607 Price: $337,750

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16 x 12 log cabin on five acres. Handy mid trail location. MLS# 6003625 Price: $75,000

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MLS#6002475 REDUCED! $337,500

NEW! CRAFTED IN TO THE LEDGEROCK! Sprawling ledge rock

NEW! FAMILY FUN ON LUTSEN’S LAKE SUPERIOR! Level gorgeous

shoreline, easily accessible from a beautiful home that has it all…Owner’s Suite, Vaulted Ceilings, Owner’s Lock out space…attached garage! Tons of value at

MLS#6003870 $579,900

shoreline captivates you while this CASCADE BEACH RD Lutsen Lake Cottage will cradle you in its history and warmth! Functional space perfect for the family, but it’s all about the Big Lake! Come See the shoreline!

NEW! SPECTACULAR SUPERIOR LAKESHORE!

MLS#TBD $399,000

SERENITY ON LAKE SUPERIOR’S CASCADE BEACH RD! Lovely home thoughtfully designed for year round

living or Lutsen Vacation Getaway! Vaulted ceilings, Corner Fireplace welcomes you in to the Great Room…Soak in the Big Lake just feet from the floor to ceiling windows! Gourmet kitchen, large island and custom cabinetry! Awesome Owner’s Suite, add’l 2 bedrms. Your guests will LOVE the Mint guest cottage. Attached garage plus Gardner’s garage perfect for boat storage and lawn care.

MLS#6003640 $699,900

Rolling terrain, lots of Elbow Room, Accessible & View Worthy!

MLS#6003980 $438,900

WOWSER OF A LAKE SUPERIOR HOME IN TOFTE! Wrapped in the history of

the North Shore! Accessible and SPECTACULAR 177 ft of Lake Superior in Wilderness Setting! Staggering views of Lake Superior from the kitchen and dining area! You’ll love having your morning coffee on the new deck surrounded by mature spruce and pine! 3+ Bdrms, 3 garages! Sweet location just west of Tofte, walk to Blue Fin, Bike to Lutsen!

MLS#6003473 $475,000

KARMIC CABIN ON LAKE SUPERIOR! Great vibes resonate from this

ELEGANCE & COMFORT on Lake Superior’s Cascade

Beach Rd! Lovingly remodeled, the owners focused on Luxury and Style in the Northwoods: a massive stone fireplace for the ages; a master bath filled with natural stone, steam shower and soaker tub; and a living room noble as the Big Lake! Separate Glass Studio with Billiards, Foosball & darts! Rustic guest cabin captures the Old Time North Shore.

home, comfortable in its design, it’s about the nice views from the entire main level, including main level bedroom! Nearby Taconite Harbor, watch the big boats pull in to the harbor!!

MLS#6003759 $349,000

MLS#6003535 $899,000

PERCHED ON THE EDGE OF LAKE SUPERIOR! Architecturally

LOTS OF LAND AND LAKESHORE ON LAKE SUPERIOR! Well maintained Family Compound with yr round newer home

on 8+ ac and 340+ ft accessible shoreline! But’s it really about “The Shining Rocks” The “Rock 1” log cabin was built early 30’s, and it’s been lovingly maintained by only a handful of families since. Cabins Rock 1, 2 & 3 create this incredible family compound!

MLS#6002529 $699,000

DRAMATIC SHORELINE AND INCREDIBLE VIEWS! Must see Lake Superior home, main level master bedroom, very cool cobblestone fireplace, open kitchen to family floor plan! Great Tofte location, walk to Coho Café!

MLS#6001714 $650,000

OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! Enjoy expansive

views and a lot of elbow room with over 300 ft of Lake Superior Shoreline! Well constructed home is ready to be updated! Gorgeous Stone fireplace, two car detached, Lovely Lutsen setting!

MLS#600899 $679,900

pleasing home w/ large decks, enjoy Lake Superior breezes, or stay warm in the Sunroom with Captivating Views! Owner’s Suite is the place for naps and boreal dreams! Guests will enjoy the upstairs suite or exterior bunkroom adjacent to garage. Super location, Walk the bike path to Temperance River’s mouth in to Lake Superior!

MLS#6003598 $409,000

BEST LAKE SUPERIOR LOCATION AT THOMSONITE BEACH! Super location between Grand Marias and Lutsen with Incredible views of the Big Lake! Meticulously Maintained, move in ready, Great Opportunity to make this Your Dream Lake Superior home!

MLS#6001226 $569,500

STATELY LAKE SUPERIOR HOME! Over 11 ac and 317 ft of shoreline, big Granite Chunks perfect for laying around on, while dipping your toes in the Big Lake! Prowl design maximizes the views up and down the shore, and you’ll love the elbow room this home offers! Two car attached garage, A Must See!

MLS#6003874 $799,900

WATER AND WILDERNESS ON LAKE SUPERIOR! Fab location on Cty Rd

DREAMY LAKE SUPERIOR

MLS#6003653 $399,000

REDUCED! $275,000

34 in Lutsen, Classic Northwoods Cabin alongside a rambling creek dropping in to Lake Superior, accessible shoreline!

land and lakeshore! Several acres of privacy and way more than 200 ft of Level Access Lake Superior shoreline in Schroeder, near Sugarloaf Cove Naturalist Area! MLS#6001554

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HONEYMOONER’S RETREAT IN LUTSEN! Nearly 5 acres, 279 ft

TAIT LAKE HOME IN LUTSEN!

Enjoy Fall leaf color from the breezy deck overlooking the 260 ft of shoreline! Tons of light flows through the Living Room focusing on Wilderness lake views. Well maintained year round home is totally dialed in and the garage boasts a roomy workshop with spacious guest suite! MLS#6002868 REDUCED!

$329,000

RUGGED TERRAIN AND SECLUDED BUILD SITE ON CARIBOU LAKE!

NEW! CRAZY CUTE RUSTIC LOG CABIN ON CHRISTINE LAKE!

MLS#6002791 $250,000

MLS#TBD $165,000

Lutsen location, Quiet build site tucked into the mouth of the Sawmill Bay!

Located just off a designated Mountain Bike Trail system, enjoy year round access, electric at street and a TOTAL SENSE OF SECLUSION! But you’re in the heart of Lutsen, Recreation Central! Canoe on Christine, Fly Fish in the Poplar or just go for a hike in the Superior National Forest!

ON DEERYARD LAKE,

! D L O SCAMP ON DEVIL TRACK SUMMER LAKE! MLS#6003559 $139,900

with garage/workshop/cabin with 100 ft of Nice Shoreline and nearly 3 acres of south sloping land. Electric, well, septic tank, AND dock! Can’t beat this value for Lutsen Lakeshore Living! MLS#6001066

$139,000

of Wilderness Shoreline! Enjoy Eagles fishing the Lake from your Dock! Architecturally designed, custom crafted home welcomes you with its locally crafted Douglas Fir doors! Clean lines in the kitchen; Custom Douglas Fir and Heart Pine shelving surrounding the Basalt Stone Fireplace in the Great Room make for a Magnificent Space overlooking peaceful Christine Lake. Guest cabin to boot!

MLS#6003498 $449,900

D! OLLAKE SVIEW NICE HOME

OVERLOOKING NINEMILE LAKE! MLS#6002645 $145,000

ALENG S I ON TAIT ANCIENT PINES D N LAKE!E Lovely log sided Cabin with VaultedP Ceilings, Gorgeous Fireplace, and

Awesome Views! So much to Offer, Yr Rnd Living on Tait Lake in Lutsen!

MLS#6003095 $369,000

COMMERCIAL DOWNTOWN LUTSEN SUPER OPPORTUNITY TO OWN MOST OF DOWNTOWN LUTSEN!

Approx. 9 ac bordered by Lutsen creek, this hotspot hosts 5 commercial businesses and a lot of apartments with good long term renters! 13 lot trailer park has been established since the 70’s, w/ each trailer owner paying lot rent. GORGEOUS LAND, mature pines, nice setting for future expansion with zero lot line setbacks. New compliant commercial septic system. Rental housing is in high demand in the Lutsen area, all rentals are full with long term history. Potential add’l income from retail space and garage/warehouse space currently used by seller. Seller Financing optional.

MLS#6003550 $1,575,000

LUTSEN MOUNTAIN RESORT AREA AND LAKE SUPERIOR VACATION TOWNHOMES! NEW! HOLY SMOKES, WHAT A GREAT DEAL!

One Bedroom Two bath Sweet Condo Ski In & Out, Great location and Views at Lutsen Mountains! Seller Says All Assessments for Renovation Upgrades paid at Listing Price!

MLS#6003638 $105,000 MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, BIKE OR HIKE IN AND OUT AT CARIBOU HIGHLANDS! Ski In Ski

Out, Super Nice Condos and townhomes at Caribou Highlands, a wide variety available from the small getaway studios to the Top Notch 4 Bedrm Townhomes. Call TimberWolff today, we are your Condo Experts!

FROM $115,000 MLS#6002881 #620 MOOSE MTN 4-5 bedrm mint townhome! REDUCED! MLS#6002082 $325,000 #605 MOOSE MTN 4 bedrm mint townhome!

MLS#6002557 $297,000 #526 MOOSE MTN, Mint Condition! REDUCED! MLS#6002963 $168,900

WINDSONG ON LAKE SUPERIOR OFFERS IT ALL IN BEAVER BAY! Up and Coming Beaver Bay boasts an easier drive to the cities and really good Value! Amazing layout to soak in the Views, this home won’t disappoint! MLS#6002658

$339,000

SKIPPING STONES ON LAKE SUPERIOR AT THE VILLAS!

If you haven’t seen the Villas in a while, you better look again! Most have been updated, especially K3! Let us show you the NEW LOOK in the Sea Villas and you will LOVE them! AT WATERS EDGE K3

VILLA, SUPER BARGAIN AT $177,500 REDUCED!

ELEGANT AND INCOME GENERATING QUARTER SHARE AT SURFSIDE! at

Tofte’s upscale Surfside Resort. #7 is a stone’s throw from accessible shoreline you’ll LOVE, this townhome, and it’s affordable with the Quarter Share option! No other end unit compares on price, views or locale to the Big Lake. The interior is right out of the pages of Architectural Digest, total Luxury! $199,000 MLS#6003491

LOVELY BLUEFIN BAY

Lake Superior home! Modern and functional space from the kitchen overlooking the lake and Great Room, flowing through a newly remodeled upper level, you’ll fall in love with this Townhome! Nice rental revenues makes this vacation home a keeper!

MLS#6002385 $554,900 #70 BEHIND COHO! Must See!!

MLS#6003372 $560,000

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NORTHWOODS HOMES AND CABINS, IN TOWN OR IN THE WOODS!

NEW! LOCATION, LOCATION, HOME! Super Grand FAMILY FRIENDLY HOME IN TOFTE in between Lutsen and

Tofte, just a minute to the Ski Hill or Sugarbush XCountry trails! Garage, tons of space!

NEW! TIMBER FRAME DREAM HOME ABOVE GRAND MARAIS! Old Ski Hill Rd

locale, Gorgeous home in the maple forest. 200 yr old recycled timbers, recycled Barn Wood, but oh so Modern! MLS#6003905

$575,000 GREAT VALUE!

MLS#6002213 $189,000

Marias home a Skip to the Harbor! Family Style with lots of elbow room, detached garage and TONS OF Style!

WELCOMING FAMILY HOME WITH RENTAL APARTMENT! 4

bedrm home is great for the growing family! Offset your mortgage with rental income from a nice one bedrm attached apartment. Great value at MLS#6003097 $199,000

MLS#6003844 $254,900 CRAZY BIG LAKE BIG MOUNTAIN VIEWS! Epic Home

NEW! STRUGGLING TO DECIDE? In

town or a place with a woodsy feel? You KNOW you want to be in the Coolest Small Town in America! You’ll quickly realize you can have the best of both worlds! Easy main level livin’ w/ Owner’s suite, steam shower, walk in closet! Great Rm w/ new hardwood flring, Huge deck overlooking creek…walk to the Angry Trout for dinner!

with Sprawling views, too Incredible to Imagine, you MUST SEE! Main Level Living, huge deck, loft bedrooms and lower level family/guest space.

MLS#6003970 $325,000

Over 6 acres! MLS#6002052 $275,000

FINE LIVING IN FINLAND! Cherry cabinets in Kitchen, Huge deck overlooking Pines! Garage and sheds. Great Price!

MLS#6002456 $175,000

SUPER OPPORTUNITY,

NEW! STUNNING WILDERNESS HOME ON 20 ACRES! Guest Cabin, pole barn and Sweet home complete this hobby farm setting! Lots of elbow room in the home, great views and awesome deck. Must see home,

Rent the Lower Level and love living on the main level with wrap around deck and LOVELY Lake Superior views! Really worth a look, great living spaces!

MLS#6003021 BARGAIN PRICE! $189,900

PRICED TO SELL AT $309,900! MLS#6003788

site with drive, sheds, sauna and drilled well! Older trailer home.

REDUCED! $174,000

SETTING MLS#6003299 $165,000 REDUCED!

SA L E NG I D N PE DARLING LUTSEN HOME, the perfect Hobby Farm! Fab location on Caribou Trail, Newer addition created main level and upper level bedrooms with modern baths, excellent use of space. Farmstyle kitchen and spacious living room overlook the apple trees and perennial gardens! Garage, small greenhouse and barns! MLS#6002736 $225,000

location between Blue Fin Bay and Lutsen Mountains, make this your winter getaway retreat! Easy access to hiking, biking, snowmobiling…you name it and it’s within minutes! 4+ acres, nice Lake Superior views and a two plus garage! MLS#6000042 $140,000

TUCKED ALONG SPRINGDALE RD. Developed build

DEVIL TRACK RD HOME! Nice home for someone looking for sweat equity, desirable location on 10 ac of nice land! Tons of potential! MLS#6000256

SA L E ING D N E P LOVELY HOME IN COUNTRY

CABIN LIVING WITH ELBOW ROOM! Great

NEW! TUCKED IN TO THE TREETOPS OF LUTSEN! Small footprint

STAGGERING LAKE SUPERIOR VIEWS, STUNNING HOME! Bowl Over your Guests with the Lake Superior views, quality crafted home with fine finishings and thoughtful design! Lovely setting perched atop the Sawtooth Ridges over Blue Fin Bay in Tofte! MLS#6002322 $529,900

MLS#6003229 $52,700

living at its best! Functional main level bedroom, tasteful bath! Open vaulted ceilings welcome you to the serene views through the maple forest tops, astounding in the fall! Gourmet Wolf stove is the center of the kitchen! Must See!

MLS#6003770 $185,000

STARTER, KEEPER!

Zippy Grand Marais home, large yard and Neat Home! A Must See at

MLS#6003099 $99,000

LE G SACRAFTSMANSHIP, IN DMLS#6002254 N MOTIVATED E P SELLER $225,000 CUSTOM

NEW! GORGEOUS NEWER CONSTRUCTION HOME on five acres of

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Near Carlton Peak! Good bang for your buck for square footage, this multilevel home is very Cool. Updated gourmet kitchen, new flooring and carpet and two garages!

MLS#6001636 $240,000

RUGGED TERRAIN CRADLES THIS SHOWBOAT CABIN! Towering Pines silhouettes the view toward Lake Superior from the upstairs deck, a nice functional design with open kitchen to family room, newer construction with garage! MLS#6002692 REDUCED!

$199,000

rolling terrain with wild life pond! Located a few miles up the Gunflint Trail from the Grand Marais harbor for easy commute to town! Open Great room designed for family and entertaining, huge decks, main level bedrooms and walk out guest space! Super two car garage! A MUST SEE! MLS#6003801 $285,000

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CAMPN’, HUNTN’, FUN GETAWAY LAND, INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE! SILVER BAY TO LITTLE MARAIS TO FINLAND & ISABELLA!

TOFTE AREA NEAR BLUEFIN BAY RESORT!

Rocky Wall Overlooking Lake Superior just outside Silver Bay PRICE REDUCED!

LeVeaux Mountain, Super Views and Wildlife Ponds! FROM $52,500

MLS#6002929 & MLS#6002995

MLS#6003239 $99,000

Just Up the Sawbill Trail Grab your little piece of the Northwoods, rolling terrain and small community feel with year round access, great build sites!

80 acres for $79,000 Blesner Lake Rd!

MLS#6003110

New! Rock Road in Silver Bay area! Great build site with creek frontage!

MLS#6001347 Prices from $24,900!!

MLS#6003859 $45,000

Rocky Wall land with Driveway in place, HUGE views of Shovel Point!

MLS#6002434 $99,000 $44,900

Huge Lake Superior views, build site surrounded by cliff wall and creek! MLS#6001295 $89,900

$129,000

SCHROEDER AREA NEAR THE CROSS RIVER! 40 Ac of Maples and boreal forest meandering toward a sweet moose pond and creek, with driveway in place and cleared build site! MLS#6002822 REDUCED!

MLS#6001796 $28,800

Sugarloaf Retreats on High Ridge Drive, located up the Surgaloaf Road from Sugarloaf Cove Naturalist Area, Enjoy large acreage parcels at rock bottom prices! From $62,000! MLS#25701-4

MLS#6003787 $179,500 SWEET CLARA LAKE LUTSEN SHORELINE!

Level Access from Build Site to Rocky Shores, your Future Cabin will overlook Superior National Forest Lands! Electric, yr round access, Old Cabin in place to use now and build later!

MLS#26055 $199,000 VOYAGEUR POINT ON POPLAR LAKE!

Yr Round Access, Electric at street and cleared build site perfect for your Getaway Cabin on Coveted Clara Lake!

Gorgeous 5 acre parcels in the Heart of Lutsen paved Caribou Trail locale bordering USFS lands!

Own your own park in the heart of Grand Marais!

Creek Build Site just off the Caribou Trail at Jonvick Creek! Rare and Unique Build site!

County Rd 7 Murphy Mountain Lake View lands! Bargain Buys in young Poplar Forest, easy clearing for Sweet Lake Superior Views for as little as $39,900! Or Enjoy Hilltop Build Site with driveway in place, creek bordering site for

What an opportunity! 30 plus acres on Lutsen’s Ski Hill Rd, just down the hill from the Midwest’s best ski area: Lutsen Mountains. Great views of Lake Superior and toward Moose Mountain.

MLS#6000676 $56,900

at street, dock in place with outhouse, Log bunkhouse! Great Summer Camp!

A River Runs Through It! 160 Acres of Upland and River Frontage on the Cascade River near Eagle Mountain, a Rare Find with tons of opportunity. Whether Hunting land or Wilderness Retreat, this is a Great Opportunity!

MLS#6003633 $59,500

10 Ac Parcels of Maples! Scramble across the Rolling Terrain of Mature Maples (Breathtaking in the Fall) to a Sweet Building site Perched Over a Mixed Boreal Forest, Good Levels of Serenity For Sure! Year Round Access and Electric at Road!

MLS#6002586 $95,900

NEW! 150 FT ON CARIBOU LAKE, driveway roughed in, electric

New! 20 acres of Wilderness with Bigsby Lake shoreline! MLS#6003828 $79,000 Over 15 ac of Wilderness on Turnagain Trail in Lutsen! MLS#6002934 $69,500 Prime Build Site(s) just off theCaribou at Jonvick Creek! MLS#6003188 $49,000

MLS#6002383 FROM 54,900-$77,500

FROM $70,000 MLS#6001560-66

GRAND MARAIS LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION! 60 Acres Minutes to Grand Marais near Devil Track Lake! Easy walking/biking access across Fed land to Monker Lake!

SWEET PARCEL ON SWALLOW LAKE IN ISABELLA AREA! 220 ft of shoreline, 2.5 ac! MLS#6003766 $64,900

New boat dock allows you to get out over the water and look down the bay. Nice path from dock to boat house and to elevated home site.

LUTSEN LAKE VIEWS & WILDERNESS LANDS!

MLS#6002164 $87,900

Super Building Site on Honeymoon Trail Lutsen locale with electric and all year access! High ground!

LAKESHORE BUILD SITES!

Birch Drive, West of Grand Marais! Wilderness Setting with 5 ac HUGE Value $42,000 MLS#6002349 or HUGE Lake Superior views MLS#6003805

$49,900 MLS#6003482

Thoreau’s Cabin on Rolling 10 Ac of Maples! Just perfect getaway Deluxe Camp Cabin, newer construction, fire pit, outhouse, All you Need to enjoy the Northwoods! Gorgeous Acreage Overlooking Sawtooth Range! Yr Round, Electric. MLS#6003185 $45,000 DRAMATIC Mountain Top Views, Rolling Hills, Maple Forests fading in to Spruce and Pine and YEAR ROUND ACCESS…simply said a MAGNIFICENT piece of land…tons of acreage available, or just pick up a 40 for $70,000! MUST SEE, call Emily today! MLS#6001560, multiple#’s call for full map and prices!

Wowser Lake Superior views on Overlook Tr! MLS#6003716 $82,900 Cool Spot for your Dream Home! Driveway is in place leading to a drop dead gorgeous building site with ledge rock vertical drop water fall! MLS#6002624 Mature Spruce and BIG Lake Views! Walk to Blue Fin Bay, drilled well in place!

$110,000

Gorgeous Views of Williams and Wills Lake in Lutsen! Year Round Access, electric, Mountain Top site bordering USFS land. A Wonderful place to build your Northwoods home!

MLS#6001685 REDUCED! $70,000

REDUCED! $54,900

160 acre parcel of upland maples and boreal forest. Beautiful forest, absolute quiet, total seclusion. Owned by the same family since 1904! MLS#6002612 REDUCED!

MLS#31531 $29,900

Toftevaag on the Sawbill, Nice Lake Views! Walk to the Coho, great location!

FROM $53,000 MLS#29252

Sonju Lake Road in Finland! Several large parcels from MLS#6001324

Lovely 20 acre parcel located on the outskirts of Lutsen, only minutes to Bigsby and Caribou Lakes! Nice mixed forest with high ground for choice building sites. Great price for your Northwoods getaway!

MLS#6002951 $269,900

FOR $79,000!

MLS#31732 $140,000

MLS#6002396 $17,000

MLS#25633 $89,900

60 Ac with Lake Views E of Grand Marais! Keep this gem all to yourself and enjoy plenty of elbow room!

MLS#6002841 $124,900

Honeymoon Trail Wildlife Lands! 10 Ac nearby Poplar River in Lutsen, great hunting or hiking land at a SUPER GREAT price! MLS#26729 $39,900

Parten Way on Pike Lake Rd! Panoramic Vistas of the Sawtooths, road rough in, a five minute drive to new Pike Lake Landing! Yr Round access! UP

30 acres of Prime Wilderness Land with year round access and electric at street with Views of Lutsen’s famed Clara Lake!

Wild Plum Drive, East of Grand Marais! Nice level build site, yr round and electric avail. MLS#6003492 $49,900

MLS#6001462 $137,500 New! 80 Ac with Poplar River Frontage on the Honeymoon Tr! MLS#6003850

$95,000

MLS#6002494 $159,000

BARGAIN CLARA LAKE SITE! MLS#6001680 $150,000

LARGE LAKESHORE LOT ON CHRISTINE LAKE

in Lutsen, year round access with over 10 acres and 200 feet of shoreline! Hilltop building site with cleared path thru cedar forest to Christine Lake, a super wilderness lake great for paddling your days away!

MLS#28961 $129,000

400 FT WITH 14 AC ON DEVIL TRACK LAKE!

What more can we say? Oh yes, there is a nice meandering driveway through mature red pines leading to level access beach shoreline. Quite nice!

MLS#6002721 $375,000

MLS#6003047 $39,900

New! 20 Ac With Lake Superior Views! Awesome locale Cty Rd 56, minutes to Grand Marais, yr round access & Elec at Rd!

MLS#6003835 $79,900

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Aspen Ridge - 5 Acres Lake Superior Views

345 Seagull Lake Rd Seagull Lk - Gunflint Trail

WOW!! Beautiful 5 BDRM cabin on 300’ shoreline, two docks, stone fireplace, garage, attached screen porch... a must see family retreat. MLS 6003886 $885,000

4 BD, 2 BA lake home. Lakeviews from every room. Furnished inc dock and pontoon boat. Must see!!! MLS 6003276 $400,000

Located between Tofte/Lutsen, spectacular lake views, borders Superior National Forest, Must See!! MLS 6003159 $69,000

Architecture-designed home with guest quarters at door of BWCA. MLS 6001517 $959,000

1 Norwood Shores - Lutsen Lake Superior Townhome

Lake Superior 5 Acres 7974 W Hwy 61 - Schroeder

34 White Sky - Lutsen Caribou Lake Cabin

116 Willard Ln Cabin 225’ Pike Lake - Lutsen NEW

Must see! 5 BD, 3 BA, gourmet kitchen, owners suite, fireplace, accessible & beautiful shoreline MLS 6001652 $699,000

One BDRM cabin with loft and all the amenities to enjoy the lake. Dock to launch watercraft, patio & deck. MLS 6003660 $222,500

7072 Two Moose Trail Wilson Lake - Finland

Enjoy your days on Lake Superior in Lutsen with this 2 BR, 1 BA four season low maintenance Townhome. MLS 6002488 $249,000

7 acre parcel, 280’ shoreline, driveway, electric, storage shed, modern outhouse & more. MLS 6003698 $259,900

Land Listings

124 Bridge Run - Lutsen Caribou Highlands Resort

Near Paradise Beach 5 acre parcel to enjoy life near the shore with Lake Superior views. MLS 6003891 $39,900 20 Acres - Lutsen Caribou Trail. MLS 6001675 $149,000

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has location and great value for dream cabin. Buy 2A for $65,450 near Tofte boat access MLS 6002831 $119,000

Four Seasons Guest House 6374-78 W Hwy 61 - Tofte

Accessible Lake Superior shoreline sits this 3BD local craftsman home plus 3 rental units. 5+ acres great location! MLS 6003622 $399,900

Devil Track Lake Walter Rd - Grand Marais

Wooded lot, nice shoreline, views, power, phone. MLS 6003904 Only $99,500

Land near Lk Superior Park Tofte Park Rd Tofte Prime 4A parcel

Commercial - 126 Airport Rd Grand Marais Airport

Condo sleeps 4, oversize deck, rental revenue offsets owner costs, WIFI, fireplace MLS 6003853 $114,000

1990 Cabin, unfinished addition - lots of potential, 2.7 A, beautiful lake & great fishing right from the dock. MLS 6003964 $282,500

Commercial hanger, heated, electric, insulated, rental income. MLS 6001751 $249,900

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Lutsen Tait Lake Lots 16 & 17 MLS#6002024 $99,950

Owner - Agent. Two sub divided parcels. Lot 16 is 2.8 acres, Lot 17 is 3.3 acres. Towering White Pines on upper lot w/numerous beautiful building sites. Tait Lake views w/deeded access to private boat landing. Both for $99,950 O\A

Caribou Highlands Unit #541

Grand Marais 391 Gunflint Narrows

Newer and beautiful 2 BR townhome ski in/ski out at Caribou Highlands Lodge. Modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Perfect location for all the activities that Lutsen has to offer!

A comfortable one bedroom authentic log cabin hand crafted by the owners with a nice view of Gunflint Lake. There is also a log outbuilding for storage and showering. The property has two approved septic field sites and presently has an outhouse. The water system uses lake water. There is a path down to the dock with adequate facilities to tie up either a boat or a canoe. This property is located on a nice quiet bay in the northwest corner of Gunflint Lake with very clear water and a rocky shoreline. Small mouth bass can be caught right off the dock at times. The view from the cabin includes a picture window looking east which catches the morning sunrises. This property is 3 miles in from the main Gunflint Trail, with an easement along the private Gunflint Narrows side road. Call Bruce Kerfoot today.

MLS#6002145 $159,000

Lutsen 11 Wildflower Ln MLS#6000729 $529,000

Tofte 90 Hoaglund Drive MLS# 6002328 $545,000

Drop dead gorgeous Lindal Cedar home with substantial upgrades throughout entire home Owner will complete kitchen, flooring throughout and master bath to buyer suit - or new owner can complete based on own design criteria.

Mike Larson 218-370-1536

Newly constructed large home with both woodland views and wide open Lake Superior views. Large lot. Top notch interior finish details. Large kitchen with stone countertop. Large decks with amazing views of the lake.

NEW G N LISTI

MLS#6003556 $329,000

Bruce Kerfoot 218-388-2294

MLS#6003477 $279,000

Grand Marais 241 Mile O Pine Rd MLS#6003228 $390,500

Grand Marais 78 Island Road Katterine Payer 218-663-7080

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Lutsen 24 Lodge Lane MLS#6002521 $254,900

Extremely well maintained 3 bedroom 2 bath Lutsen Log Lodge located on Ski Hill Road in Lutsen. Newly updated 3 season enclosed porch. Nicely appointed home with vaulted ceilings, master bedroom with private bath and jetted tub. Open main level floor plan with great room, kitchen and fireplace. Private Association with carefully crafted declarations for your benefit. Vacation Rentals and private management available or perfect for second home or permanent residence.

Beautiful log home on Sea Gull Lake engineered wood style flooring through the house with carpeted bedroom. Quality kitchen cabinets, Jenn Aire stove, laminated hard wood kitchen counters. Cedar paneling walls and pine paneling ceiling. The bathroom has an ADA toilet, which can be changed to the standard height. Double doors leading to a beautiful porch (+/- 10x30) including 6x30 deck. ADA ramp for access in addition to the standard entry steps. Baseboard electric heat and wood stove/fireplace in living room. All contents included in sale price excluding one painting by seller (hanging in bedroom-a scene with red canoes). There is a lit path between cabin and dock. Garage has a bunk room with sleeping for 4 people; insulated and cedar paneling. There is no plumbing in the garage. Call Bruce Kerfoot today.

Gunflint Lake 3 Season Home on 200’ of prime frontage, 3 BR, 1 ¾ baths, big rock fireplace, 11 big picture windows, guest cabin, boat dock, well and approved septic. Living and dining area is nicely paneled with a paneled ceiling. Excellent Lake and woods views with 11 picture windows. The porch wraps two sides of the house and is 6” wide. The house comes with most furnishings including a big moose head, bearskin rug and flint musket to complete the North woods life. Enjoy days by the lake on a new aluminum dock. Call Bruce Kerfoot today.

Lutsen 11 Wild Flower Lane MLS #6000729 $529,000

Steve Surbaugh 218-663-7080

Lutsen 48 County Road 34

Newly constructed large home with both woodland views and wide open Lake Superior views. Located on a large lot with easy access to Highway 61 in a convenient Lutsen location. Top notch interior finish details. Large kitchen with stone countertop. Large decks with amazing views of the lake.

MLS #6003287 $999,000

It’s unusual or likely simply unavailable to find nearly 850’ of Lake Superior shoreline spread over 13 acres in the heart of Lutsen. This property is accompanied by a three bedroom lake home that was built for the ages. The lake home is timeless with respect to design and architecture. Three bedrooms, one bath with a Great Room and wood fire place. Recent updates to kitchen and bathroom. Sincerely, likely some of the best views on the entire north shore with moderate stair access to ledge rock shoreline. Property is currently examining land considerations for Administration Sub-Division. Application is in process showing the possibility for one or two additional shoreline lots with back lots for protection.

Grand Marais 517 S Gunflint Lake MLS#6000932 $599,000

Gunflint Lake home on nearly 12 acres of forest land with 619’ of private shoreline on Gunflint Lake. Two stall detached garage, guest cabin, boathouse and woodshed. Priced below taxable market value! Call Bruce today for showing.

Lutsen 1044 Caribou Trl

MLS#6000638 Price: $319,900

Excellent Caribou Lake opportunity. 3 br/1 bath, open area kitchen and dining, large open deck area, permanent dock. New improvements include: septic, windows, siding, roofing, Insulation & more.

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Lutsen 261 Caps Trail Tait Lake MLS#6001233 $334,500

Tait Lake in Lutsen. Wonderfully appointed and extremely well maintained 2 bedroom, loft and 2 bath south facing home on a 2.9 acre parcel and 190’ of shoreline with dock. Abundance of natural light throughout the home. New addition in 2006 includes second bedroom, bathroom hallway and laundry. Office added in 2011 (could be converted to third bedroom). Excellent value. Call Katterine or Mike today for your private showing.

Jonvick Creek Beautiful home sites in mature Maple, Spruce and Birch forest. $29,500-54,900 xxx Sawbill Trail 120 Acres located up the Sawbill Trail. Large Maples MLS# 27551 $199,900 xxx Mountain Ash Ln Cedar covered hillside overlooking Lake Superior in Lutsen. MLS#60000147 $649,000 xxx Leveaux Ridge 3.45 acres Birch Forest, pines, Lake Superior View MLS#6002548 $29,500 Johannes Toftey Homestead Sites

Beautiful hillside lots in Tofte with Lake Superior and Carlton Peak views. $35,750-55,000

Tofte Airport Home Sites Located between Lut-

sen and Tofte. Convenient Location with outstanding values. $24,750-33,000 Tait Pines Nestled hillside adjacent to Tait Lake in Lutsen, just 13 miles up the Caribou Trail. $37,950-$57,750 Caribou Hillside Outstanding homesites tucked along the hillside of Caribou Lake. $52,250-$126,500 342 Rd Schroeder 160 acres covered in Maples, Birch, and other mixed forest. Can be sold as parcels. MLS#6000143 $199,000

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PEND Lutsen Sea Villas The Lutsen Sea Villas have withstood the test of time. Nowhere else is there a shoreline like this on the entire coast of Lake Superior. The owner’s and management company have upheld excellent standards and quality while maintaining the unique integrity of this original seaside coastal development, and they are well run by Lutsen Resort.

H5 Sea Villa MLS#6003387 $184,000 G2 Sea Villa MLS#6003385 $159,000 G5 Sea Villa MLS#6003386 $172,000 D3 Sea Villa MLS#6003900 $159,000

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Lutsen 46 Jonvick Creek Sites

Grand Marais 51 Clearwater Road MLS# 6002596

This beautiful custom built Senty log home is one of the finest homes to become available along the entire Gunflint Trail for many years. Great room with huge log fireplace Large master bedroom w/walk in closet Two guest bedrooms with bathroom Designer kitchen with marble counters Fabulous views of the Clearwater Palisades and the wilderness Large garage Wood fired hot tub Sauna

Grand Marais 185 N Pike Lake Rd MLS#6003124 $449,900

Enjoy the solitude on nearly 600 feet of meandering shoreline along the north side of Pike Lake. Located at the end of North Pike Lake Road this is literally the last private piece of land on this part of the lake. This home was built in 1993 and is used year round as a prime vacation spot. The property boasts 1 bedroom plus a loft that serves as additional sleeping space. Full kitchen and ¾ bathroom round out the amenities. A woodstove will keep you toasty warm on winter nights. For the summer there is a large lake facing deck. Dock and fire ring round out the amenities along the shore.

MLS #6003604 $269,500

Perfect in so many ways. Single level living - 3 bedroom 3 bath on one level with attached two car garage. Energy efficient. Current owner installed a ground thermal heating system complimenting the infloor heat within the home. Lutsen location on 5 acres just a couple miles from “downtown” Lutsen is yet another complimenting feature. Property has a separate one bedroom/bath cabin (20’ x 24’) with full kitchen and living area currently used as a rental (rent generates between $7-8,000 annually) or it can be used a private guest room/studio office and more. Budget for unities (which includes entire home and guest cabin) is approximately $250 a month. Classic red barn (22’ x 26’) on property.....use opportunities are wide open. Former porch area recently modified for use as 3/4 season sun room with new windows and gas fireplace. Nice yard and open areas.

Lutsen 5295 W Hwy 61 MLS#6002804 $129,000

Two+ bedroom manufactured home located downtown Lutsen. New septic and deck summer 2011. Newer roof, furnace and dishwasher. Great location with convenient horseshoe driveway and level lot. Solid foundation. Walking distance to “downtown Lutsen” and close proximity to area employers and related businesses. Very nice floor plan with well appointed furnishings included.

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Hovland 90 Stonegate Rd MLS#6002703 $699,000

This home blends pure quality restating an original Lake Superior homestead with a Clarence Kemp addition that seamlessly ties two areas under one roof with masterful eloquence. Kitchen with custom made cabinetry, high-end appliances, gas stove, granite countertops and a custom designed brick-oven. An open living space with the Great Room with vaulted ceilings with Lake Superior view. Kitchen, great room and dining room are all connected.

Grand Marais

1817 W Hwy 61

MLS#6002458 $139,900

Hwy 61 West from Grand Marais, located close to town on a private wooded lot. This home has 4 bedrooms and plenty of options for a new owner to add sweat equity. Property may be divisible. Mix of residential and commercial zoning.

Lutsen, MN 44 Lodge Lane MLS#6003364 $259,000

This 3 bedroom 2 bath Lutsen Log Lodge has been carefully maintained. Main level has 2 bedrooms and a private bathroom. Second level has a private master bedroom and master bathroom with jetted tub. Open kitchen area to main great room with fireplace. Its location on the Ski Hill Road offers the convenience to year round activities in the Lutsen area. Find this opportunity as year round residence, a private vacation home and/or vacation rentals.

Lutsen, MN 5170 W Hwy 61 MLS#6003083 $349,000

Authentic and classic late 1940’s - 1950’s log home located in Lutsen near Caribou Trail. Deep, private and recessed 2 acre lot. Home has been meticulously maintained and well cared for spanning four decades and two generations within the same family. Drilled well providing seasonal water use. Septic functional but non-compliant. Cool cabin, cool piece of real estate, mutli-options present themselves for future use consideration. An all around cool place.

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Lar ge Acr eage 92A Tom Lake Rd - $79,900

Rolling, wooded, lots of potential for recreation or building.

MLS 6002723

110A W Highway 61 - $649,900

110A wooded land, on Hwy 61 corridor. Year round access, many development options, multiple zoning (Far-3, R-1, and Commercial)

MLS 6002185

200A Camp 12 Rd - $159,900

Surrounded by state and federal land. Mature trees, gently rolling topography.

MLS 6002411

40A Camp 12 Rd - $49,900

156 Stonegate Rd

3BR, 2BA gem with wrap around deck on 4A with 212’ of shore. Beautiful hardwood floors, granite counters and quality custom solid wood cabinets.

MLS 6002724 $599,900

2580 E Hwy 61

1658 Croftville Road

Quality built, custom designed, 3 BR, 2BA home with tons of windows and 175’ shore. Granite fireplace, walkout lower level, attached garage.

MLS 6003907

One level home with 3BR, 2BA, gas fireplace and cozy, warm sunroom; an ideal year round home or a seasonal paradise. Detached 2 car garage.

$447,500

MLS 6000697 $435,000

40A off of Irish Creek Rd. Surrounded on 3 sides by State land. Approx ¼ mile of babbling frontage on Irish Creek.

MLS 6002405

43A County Road 7 - $299,900

Seasonal Lake Superior views, multiple zoning, electric at road.

MLS 6002300

25A Tom Lake Rd - $49,900

25A close to Tom Lake. Enjoy the lake without the high lakeshore taxes.

MLS 6002625

115+A Arrowhead Trail - $84,900

Excellent property priced right. Electric and phone at street. Private access from Co Rd 69.

MLS 6002839

2554 E Hwy 61

606 Old Shore Rd

4556 Cascade Beach Rd

Truly stunning 3BR, 3BA home on 2.43A with 200’ shoreline. Angled walls, lots of glass, vaulted ceilings, stunning stone fireplace and much more.

3BR, 4 BA home close to town with 100’ shore. Gorgeous kitchen, cherry floors, granite counters, and passive solar heat. Lovely, extensive gardens.

Luxurious 3BR, 2BA Lake Superior home on 1.4A and 200’ shore. Many amenities and expansive face Superior and the dramatic ledgerock shoreline. Excellent rental history.

MLS 6003589 $799,000

MLS 6003603 $559,900

MLS 6003910 $649,900 NEW

Com m e r c ia l

Forest Rd 304 - $164,900

80A of maples, spruce and balsam, Durfee Creek and beaver ponds. Bordered on two sides by public lands

MLS 6003013

Reason Rd - $109,900 NEW

120A wooded with trails, wildlife and State land on 2 sides. 1.5 miles from public Tom Lake boat landing

MLS 3003857

L a ke S u p e r i o r Lots

63 Chessie Trl

Beaver House

Dreaming of owning your a own business? The iconic Beaver House in Grand Marais could be yours! Great location and strong seasonal repeat business. Fantastic business opportunity.

MLS 6003924 $249,900

Harbor Light Restaurant

Restaurant in prime location, on top of the hill with frontage on Hwy 61 in Grand Marais 2.5A with, maximum exposure as tourists flock to town. Incredible amount of commercial equipment!

1.27A with 200+’ shore close to the Superior Hiking Trail, Judge Magney and Naniboujou Lodge. Use the cabin while you build your dream home or just keep this place for its charm and privacy.

MLS 6003800 $275,000 NEW

MLS 6003968 $369,900 NEW

Stonegate Road - $219,900 $249,900 3 lake lots with 2+ acres and 200’ shore. Private and wooded.

MLS 6003950

57XX East Hwy 61 - $129,900 4.1A, 280’ shore. Driveway, septic mound and electric in place.

108 Gunflint Trail

4BR, 2BA home right on the Gunflint Trail. This lot is commercially zoned with great visible location at the beginning of the Gunflint Trail. 2.5 car garage could be converted to retail space.

MLS 6002154 $244,900

The Attic

Established year round business in downtown Grand Marais right in the center of the action for the numerous festivals and events that take place in summer. Great opportunity!

Broadway Ave

Rare vacant commercial land in downtown Grand Marais. Special find with excellent location just north of the Beaver House offering high visibility and heavy seasonal traffic.

MLS 6003594 $279,900

MLS 6003922 $99,900

MLS 6003726

5788 E Hwy 61 - $225,000 5A, 280’ shore, driveway, underground power, newly drilled well.

MLS 6002980

14 Stonegate Rd - $199,900

1800 W Hwy 61

4+A zoned commercial and 5.57 residential. 4 room Nordic Lodge and 5 cabins.

MLS 6003691 $159,900 1.79A zoned commercial. Newer restaurant building, 17 unit motel, 3BR, 2BA owner’s quarters.

1.17A of nicely wooded, 200’ shoreline in an unspoiled location.

MLS 6003693 $259,900

MLS 6003950

MLS 6003689 $399,900

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Homes & Cabins

2117 E Hwy 61

1000 Camp 20 Rd

Exceptional 2BR home with fantastic Lake Superior views on +7A. Just minutes from town, open floor plan, large thermo-pane windows with beautiful views from every room and deck.

MLS 6003424 $349,900

6 Mopar Tr

5A, beautifully wooded with 3BR, 2BA. Gourmet chef ’s kitchen, double car garage with guest quarters; sauna and wrap around porch all just a few minutes from town.

MLS 6003564 $49,900

MLS 6003720 $104,995

MLS 6003872 $329,900 NEW

MLS 6003499 $299,900 NEW

2138 County Rd 7

MLS 6003590 $245,000

MLS 6003614 $344,900

120 Brule Valley Tr

MLS 6003196 $189,900 SOLD

Gunflint Trail

3BR, 2BA home on .97A in Tofte. Quality throughout; open great room, many windows, wrap around deck and Lake Superior views. Directly abuts government land.

Open, bright, inviting and warm, impeccably maintained home. 3BR, 3BA on nearly 8A with Lake Superior views. Large pole barn, sauna, storage shed and garage.

2BR home, new furnace, septic system, well pump, siding and gutters on over 6A. Detached two-car garage. Gardener’s dream with indoor greenhouse, blueberries, raspberries and apple trees.

Wildwood Acres

Historic 1912 house and unique barn with great potential, fantastic location and views. Some restoration has been done it just needs you to finish it up.

2BR home just outside the city limits. 5A for lots of privacy, with sheds and outbuildings galore. The 38 by 56 pole building even features a heated “man cave!!!”

1373 Schoolhouse Road

Chicago Bay Rd

38A in great hunting country with deer, grouse, bear and perhaps a moose or two. Trails and old logging roads for hiking, snow shoeing or cross country skiing.

328 Ball Club Rd

Charming cabin on 20A, about 15 minutes from GM. Close to great fishing lakes, the cabin overlooks a delightful pond that is a magnet for deer, moose and other wildlife.

MLS 6002565

$129,900

415 W 5th Ave

Remote and rustic 22.80A with custom built cedar timber frame cabin. Set on a ridge overlooking beaver pond. Deeded access to Lost Lake and private landing on the Brule River.

3BR, 1BA home with high ceilings, gas fireplace, sliding doors leading to a large front deck and a solid foundation. Central location in Grand Marais. Yard consists of 4 city lots.

MLS 6003565 $74,900

MLS 6002423 $129,900 PENDING

723 County Rd 6

Well-built 2BR home on 11A. Open floor plan, large brick fireplace and windows overlooking a creek. Walk-out, unfinished basement, sauna; abuts Federal land

MLS 6003967 $319,900 NEW

45 Casper Hill Rd

415 E 4th Ave

Lovely 3BR, 2BA home, centrally located in Grand Marais. Updated kitchen with stainless appliances. Large deck overlooking the landscaped yard, big trees and gardens, and BIG detached garage.

MLS 6003429 $279,900

260 County Rd 48

2BR open concept, year round home tucked away in the woods on 5A. Detached 2 car garage with workshop; 2BR guest cabin, lovely perennial gardens, mature trees and lots of wildlife.

3-4BR home on 7.66A. Lake Superior views, landscaped yard, raised garden beds, huge deck. Full basement with plenty of space for a workshop and family room just 5 minutes from town.

MLS 6003112 $229,900

MLS 6003519 $289,900

Condos

Grand Marais Condo Temperance Ldg Bluefin Bay - Tofte

Bluefin Bay has stunning Lake views and access award winning amenities and restaurants! Excellent rental potential. 2BR, 2BA units with stunning views

Unit 2 MLS 6003749 $297,000 Unit 41 MLS 6003996 $299,000 NEW Unit 16 MLS 6000300 $309,000

Unfinished true log home in stunning Temperance Landing development. Buyer may purchase unfinished and bring in their own contractor or home is available to be finished by builder for $495,000.

MLS 6003885 $240,000

2BR, 2BA with Lake Superior views. Large loft, heated garage and storage space.

Unit 17 MLS 6003906 $218,900 2BR, 2BA with large loft, new appliances and excellent views of Lake Superior.

Unit 20 MLS 6003916 $199,900 2BR, 1BA, walkout patio, surrounded by trees , headed garage and storage space

7249 Hwy 61 - Tofte

415 E 3rd Ave

Well-built 4BR home with Lake Superior views, on 2A of level, commercially zoned land. 32’ x 40’ garage makes this the perfect site for small business expansion, studio and workshop space.

Well built 2BR home with park like setting in a quiet part of town. Massive wood burning fireplace insert, all one level living, but upper level also now being used as artist studio.

MLS 6003375 $199,900 PENDING

MLS 6002974 $249,900

Unit 8 MLS 6003682 $159,900

3BR, 3BA units with great Lake Superior views.

Unit 64 MLS 6003609 $585,000 Unit 65 MLS 6003558 $550,000 Unit 45 MLS 6002761 $455,000

Surfside on Superior

Become an owner at Lake Superior’s newest premiere resort, Surfside on Superior. Quarter-share ownership is 13-weeks of year-round, maintenance-free ownership which you can decide to use yourself or generate rental income to offset the costs associated with ownership.

MLS 6002764 $189,000 MLS 6003432 $215,000

East Bay Suites

3BR, 2BA, open floor plan and deck with Lake Superior and village views. The ultimate in vacation living. East Bay Suites consistently provides high occupancy rates all year long.

MLS 6002655 $315,000

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2291 County Rd 7

Inn at Terrace Point Quality, quality, and more quality. 1BR, 1BA unit with walkout comfort to enjoy your lake patio. Outstanding architecture by John Howe (a Frank Lloyd Wright student).

Spacious, open custom built and designed country estate showplace with 3BR, 2BA on 10A. Large horse arena, artist’s/writer’s cabin, and Lake Superior views. Total quality!

MLS 6002681 $779,000

263 Devil Track Rd

2BR, 2BA, minutes from Grand Marais, huge garage with room for cars and a full collection of toys. Spiral stairs show off craftsmanship while the windows open onto great views.

MLS 6002503 $254,900 PENDING

MLS 6001369 $199,000

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Greenwood Lake

Poplar Lake

Gunflint Lake

3BR, open layout with unique kitchen and master bath. 150’ shore on 1A with two porches, two storage sheds, and a fully furnished 3BR cabin, all with great views of the lake!

2BR full cedar log cabin with over 300 feet of shore! Cathedral ceilings, wood floors, LOTS of windows overlooking the lake, ¾ bath and gas appliances. Complete yearround generator/solar panel system.

Picturesque, low maintenance cabin on 2 acres & 400’ shoreline. Nice size main BR, sleeping loft, open LR/DR with lots of windows. enticing deck overlooks the lake. Fire pit and shared boat launch.

Very quiet 1.8A with over 200’ shore. Driveway in place with a newly built (2011) garage on site! Close to Trail Center, but the ultimate in BWCA access with multiple portage routes out of Poplar lake.

Year-round access to charming log cabin on 7.78A and 150’ of shore! Wood interior with pitched/cathedral ceilings and propane lights, stove and fridge. There’s also a detached garage, outhouse and 12x12 storage shed!

MLS 6003002 $199,900

MLS 6003902 $349,900

MLS 6003430 $199,900

MLS 6003273 $179,900

MLS 6003855 $199,900

Greenwood Lake

McFarland Lake

Flute Reed River

Birch Lake

Clearwater Lake

3BR, 2BA cedar cabin with 4 season porch that overlooks the lake. Private boat landing, 200’ shore, dock, and multiple off grid operating systems so you can enjoy cell phone,

2BR cabin with large loft on 3.21A and 151’ of shore. Beautiful kitchen; large center island and granite countertops. LR has high, vaulted ceilings, free standing fireplace, and doors to deck and covered porch.

Cozy historic little cabin. Its exact age is uncertain, but has been there a long time nestled in a crook of the protected Flute Reed River watershed. The cabin is primitive and rustic but very well kept.

Stunning 2BR, 2BA home with huge deck overlooking the dock & boat-slide on the 275’ of shore. Landscaped yard on 5.96A with heated bunkhouse for extra guests. Sauna, garage, garden sheds & outhouse.

4BR, 2BA home on 4.93A with 145’ shore. Great views, great dock and swimming area. Full walkout lower level with plenty of storage, wine room and sauna. Border Route Trail is outside your backdoor.

MLS 6003741 $349,900

MLS 6003636 $259,900

MLS 6003898 $69,900 PENDING

MLS 6003427 $399,900

MLS 6003428 $399,900

McFarland Lake

Devil Track Lake

McFarland Lake

Poplar Lake

Iron Lake

250’ shore with great sand beach, gentle drop off for the kids. 1.52A protected from weather and a large deck. Much potential here, just needs some elbow grease!

Year round quaint and quiet home on 2.2A with 100’shore. Many upgrades a nd improvements, large deck and newer windows. Includes easy roll in/roll out dock.

Spacious northwoods cabin on 20A tucked away in the woods. Private 10’ lake access easement for your dock! Main level BR, open great room, vaulted ceilings, large loft and covered porch.

Spectacular Island Property! 2 vacation homes, each has 2BR, spacious kitchen, cathedral ceilings, lots of glass and a breathtaking view of the lake.

2BR cabin nestled in a beautiful pine forest. 1.43A with 150’ of shore. Cabin features knotty-pine woodwork, large screened-in porch and woodstove. Carry-down access means you’ll basically have the lake to yourself.

MLS 6002626 $274,900

MLS 6003635 $199,900 PENDING

MLS 6003901 $149,900

MLS 6003758 $589,500

MLS 6002714 $149,900

Lake Superior View Bloomquist Mtn. Road 5.8A - $44,900

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Gunflint Lake

685’ prime shoreline on both Gunflint and Magnetic Lake. 2BR cabin, 2.65A, wood fireplace, screen porch, log beams and loft. End-of-road location, direct access to BWCAW.

MLS 6003595 $399,900

Iron Lake

Year round 1BR log cabin nestled in the forest on 1.5A. Overlooks beautiful and private Iron Lake, trail down to the 200’ of shore. Abuts federal land to the west.

10 miles east of Grand Marais with power at the property, driveway, and several building sites partially cleared!

MLS 6001709

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Silver Fox Rd - $69,900 5+ acres, located east of town, easy year round access, and utilities are all available. Very peaceful & quiet lot, perfect setting for building your dream home.

MLS 6002966

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County Rd 67 - $69,900 4.16A with Lake Superior so close you can see the waves rolling in to the stateowned shoreline, meaning you’ll have walking access to the lake!

MLS 6003775 $198,500

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MLS 6003978 $239,900 NEW

East Highway 61 - $54,900 20A Large, private parcel close to town with elevation, meaning panoramic views of Lake Superior! Large building site has been leveled.

MLS 6000432

Murphy Mtn Rd - $59,900 View of Lake Superior, 5A, within 10 minutes of town. Surveyed, pins are all clearly marked, utilities in place and septic sites are identified.

MLS 6003425

Highway 61 - $54,900 NEW 20A, 1/3 mile above Lake Superior with great panoramic views. Many building sites along the ridgeline. Very nice site near town but also quite private

MLS 6004005

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Rosebush Hill Lane Nicely wooded 5.40A with shared driveway only minutes from town. Identified septic sites and fully surveyed! Approx. 430’ of creek frontage. OWNER will consider a Contract for Deed!

5A surrounded on 2 sides by government land. Convenient midtrail location with easy access to many recreational activities.

MLS 6003242

$69,900

116 Overlook Dr 3.33A with Lake Superior view, privacy, and is user friendly for building. Located at the end of Overlook Trail in Tofte, utilities available & year round access. MLS 6003380

$59,900

Silver Fox Rd

5A of northwoods privacy with all modern conveniences about 8 minutes from town. Gently rolling with some very attractive building sites. Abuts government land.

MLS 6002967

$49,900

Roman’s Rd Close to Devil Track Lake and lots of recre-

ational activities. 1.06A MLS 6002324 $19,900 PENDING 1.72A MLS 6002323 $29,900

Stonegate RD

2A with lots of potential uses. Power, phone, and broadband are a stones throw away.

MLS 6003282 $21,000

E Hwy 61

Conveniently located near public access to Lake Superior, Kadunce Wayside, Kadunce River, Superior Hiking Trail and more.

MLS 6003752 $18,000

MLS 6003093 $49,900

W Hwy 61

Great location and development opportunities right off Hwy 61! 7.1A Commercial lot (Zoned Commercial and R-1). Additional acreage of R-1 behind. Agent Owned.

Pike Lake Rd

Wooded 4+A near Pike Lake! Nicely elevated build sites, survey in place and septic sites identified. Just a short walk to the lake.

MLS 6003854 $42,500 NEW

MLS 6002301 $149,900

Diagonal Rd

20A, not-so-remote remote parcel. Year round access to within a few yards. Septic sites identified. Great mixture of tree cover as well as highlands and wetlands.

MLS 6003602 $27,500

Solberg Lane

20A close to town but is definitely off-the-grid for a real North Woods getaway. Nicely elevated with the possibility of solar and wind power. Rustic outhouse and bunkhouse cabin on the site.

MLS 6003176 $62,800

Raven Feather Rd

6.65A of nicely wooded land just west of Grand Marais. End of road location with federal land to the west PLUS incredible views of Lake Superior.

MLS 6003776 $129,900

2 20A pieces, remote with exceptional privacy close to town.

MLS 6003311 $33,900

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Pendant Lake Tr

5A, with year round access. Power on sight, phone close by. Beautifully wooded and privacy but only 12 minutes from town.

20A, 1/3 mile above Lake Superior with great panoramic views. Many building sites along the ridgeline. Very nice site near town but also quite private

MLS 6004005 $54,900 NEW

MLS 6003893 $48,000 NEW

Inland Lake Lots Birch Lake Heavily wooded 1.54A, 150’ of frontage on great trout lake. Direct, year round access off the Gunflint Trail. MLS 6002478 $99,900

Kemo Lake

One of only 4 lots on south shore. Private 2.34A with 200’ frontage on excellent trout lake!

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MLS 6002735 $159,900

Poplar Lake Convenient mid-trail location with deeded lakeshore access to Poplar Lake. Building site cleared, driveway is in and all utilities available.

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MLS 6002116 $52,500 .94A with 291’ of shore. Healthy mix of huge White Pines, Cedars & Balsams; feels like your own private park. Cleared building site, electricity, phone & broadband is available.

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MLS 6003028 $169,900

Leo Lake

169’ shore, on 3.70A, mid trail location, with public access to other lakes nearby.

MLS 6002665 $134,500

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Tom Lake Year round, 1.10A, 171’ shore, nicely wooded, driveway and cleared building site. MLS 6003815 $54,900

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34A, 600’ shore, nicely woodedwith maples, pine, cedars and incredible views.

MLS 6002412 $149,900 1.81A of stunning views with great building sites and 298’ shore.

MLS 6002257 $57,900 PENDING

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Devil Track Lake Beautiful lake lot on 2A and over 150’ of shore. Nicely wooded, close to town. Tons of recreational activities nearby.

MLS 6003833 $199,900 NEW

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Squint Lake Nicely wooded 2.13A with some lovely

old White Pine trees! Excellent Mid-Gunflint Trail location, 221’shore, gentle topography AND directly abutting USFS for added privacy

MLS 6003969 $89,900 NEW

Chester Lake The only private parcel on Chester Lake. One of a kind opportunity! 40A, 300’ frontage! Rough cabin sold “as is” MLS 6004004 $149,900 NEW

Poplar LakeVery quiet 1.8A with over 200’ shore. Driveway in place with garage. Mid trail, with multiple portage routes into BWCAW

MLS 6004001 $179,900 NEW

NORTH SHORE

101 West Hwy . 61 Grand Marais, MN 55604 info@cbnorthshore.com

(218) 387-2131

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(800) 732-2131

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The Blueﬁn Bay Family of Resorts is unmatched in its intimate proximity to Lake Superior. We oﬀer three distinct ownership opportunities to achieve what you’ve been dreaming of for years.

Own a slice of Minnesota’s Favorite Resorts We bring you closer. To the lake, each other and your vacation property dreams.

• Blueﬁn Bay on Lake Superior: Award-winning property, Minnesota’s Favorite Resort. One, two and three bedroom condos & townhomes on Lake Superior with access to restaurants, pools, saunas, tennis court, gift shops, & full service spa. • Surfside on Lake Superior: New, spacious luxury townhomes on Lake Superior. Home to Waves of Superior Spa & Café. Oﬀering shared ownership opportunities. • Temperance Landing on Lake Superior: Distinctive log home luxury on ledgerock and cobblestone beach near Temperance River. 3 BR, 3BA custom log homes with access to resort amenities at Surfside.

Blueﬁn Bay Condos & Townhomes NEW

Blueﬁn Unit 16

Blueﬁn Unit 2

2BR, 2 BA. Sweeping views. Rent as 1 or 2 units to maximize income.

2BR, 2 BA. You can’t get any closer to the lake than this.

Blueﬁn Units 64

Blueﬁn Unit 45

3BR, 3 BA. Brand new units! 3BR, 3BA. End-unit w/ incredible views. One of Master craftsmanship. most requested. Pure elegance.

Blueﬁn Unit 65 3BR, 3 BA. Largest townhome with $100K in annual income.

Surfside on Lake Superior New townhomes, total coastal luxury right on the shore of Lake Superior. 3,000 s/f, 3BR, 3BA. Quarter-share ownership w/ ﬂexibility for personal use & rental income. Excellent family retreat or investment property. Prices from $179K-$225K, includes furnishings.

Bluefin Bay

Gunflint Realty phone:

Surfside

93 Pike Lake Road

ED C U D E ER C I PR

Newly Constructed 2 BR rustic cabin with loft and covered porch, electric, broadband and propane heat. Located on 5 acres and only 6 miles from Grand Marais. Contract for Deed possible. Broker/ Owner MLS # 6003958 $104,900

TONS OF NEW UPDATES!!

tkennedy@boreal.org

3BR/2BA home with commercial zoning on Hwy 61. New Bathroom, New Laundry Room, New Mudroom, New Flooring, New Dishwasher-this is a lot of house. New Septic. Remodeled outbuilding could be used for guest house, art studio, office, the opportunities are endless!! Close to Downtown Grand Marais. Owner/Agent MLS# 6001300 $219,900

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Sales Agent, Blueﬁn Bay Family of Resorts Let Eric, exclusive sales agent for Blueﬁn Bay Family of Resorts, provide the details about each property and guide you through the process. Contact him today to learn more.

218-663-6886 | eric@blueﬁnbay.com

Temperance Landing On the shores of Lake Superior in Tofte, Minnesota

2067 W Hwy 61

218.370.0955 email:

Eric Frost

Vacant Land Devil Track Rd & South Shore Drive 5 acre parcels located on blacktop road with electric service at road, close to Grand Marais. Adjacent to public land. Prices start at $47,900

MLS# 6003962 MLS#30047 MLS#30049 MLS#30050

SQUINT LAKE Two beautifully wooded lakeshore lots on a quiet mid-Gunflint Trail lake. South facing lots for plenty of sun. Mature red and white pines, power and phone at property. Close to many BWCAW access points, lots of good fishing lakes, ski, snowmobile and hiking trails. Priced to Sell-way below county valuation. Lot 4 2.03 acres, 234’ shoreline $89,900 Lot 5 1.92 acres, 225’ shoreline $89,900

Commercial Lot

Dowtown Grand Marais. Prime location - ready to build. Broker/Owner MLS # 6003982 $199,000

CATCHLIGHT

painted turtles I came upon a bale of painted turtles basking in the sun on Fall Lake on Day 52 of my 221-day solo canoe trip in 2014. It appeared as if one turtle was playing leapfrog and got stuck mid-jump. Upon seeing the antics, I gently stabilized my canoe in nearby vegetation and captured the moment while hand-holding my camera.—Gary Fiedler

NORTHERN WILDS

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FOOD - MUSIC - FUN

Portage Band Fri. & Sat., June 12 & 13 Fri., June 26 6 - 8 p.m.

Earth, Wind and Todd

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Everyone is Welcome!

Fri. & Sat., June 19 & 20 8 p.m.- Midnight

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Form your own team. Gift Card prizes.

Wednesdays

BURGER NIGHT 5-8 P.M.

Great burgers at a “Blue Collar” price.

Thursdays

5-8 P.M.

Hard shell beef tacos

Fridays

5-8 P.M.

Famous Legion Broasted Chicken

Auxiliary Quilt Raffle Tickets on Sale 72

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3:00 p.m. Monday - Thursday Noon Friday & Saturday Closed Sunday

Grill Open from 5 - 8 p.m. Monday - Saturday

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