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First sign for the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais. County State-Aid Highway 12 (CSAH 12), also known as the Gunflint Trail, or County Road 12 (CR 12), is a 57-mile (92 km) paved roadway and National Scenic Byway in Cook County, Minnesota, that begins in Grand Marais and ends at Saganaga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near the U.S. border with Ontario.
It is located on Gunflint Lake, on the border of Ontario, Canada, and is open year-round. Built in 1925 by Dora Blankenburg and her son Russell Blankenburg, the lodge was sold in 1927 to May and Justine Spunner, and was owned by the Kerfoot family until it was sold by Bruce Kerfoot in 2016.The family name changed in 1934 when Justine married ...
Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway signage. Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway is a 57-mile (92 km) road following County Road 12 in Cook County, Minnesota's northeastern tip. The byway begins in Grand Marais and passes through Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Many recreational opportunities exist along the ...
Dorothy Louise Molter (May 6, 1907, in Arnold, Pennsylvania – December 18, 1986), lived for 56 years on Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota.She was known as "Knife Lake Dorothy" or as the "Root Beer Lady", as she made root beer and sold it to thousands of passing canoeists in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near Ely, Minnesota.
Justine Kerfoot (1906 – May 30, 2001) was an American writer and outdoors-woman who moved to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota in 1927 and helped establish the Gunflint Lodge and the overall Gunflint Trail area. She was the author of two published books and co-authored a third.
Ramstad: As year ends, 3M’s resort is still for sale and many Minnesota employers still seek workers. Tribune. Evan Ramstad, Star Tribune. December 23, 2023 at 3:48 PM.
The lodge served as a store, resort office, restaurant, and lounge area for resort guests. Nunstedt and his family ran the lodge until 1952. It was run as a resort until 1978, when the U.S. Forest Service bought out resorts in the region upon the formation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Forest Service took over the lodge ...
The Superior National Forest Scenic Byway (SNFSB), also known as Forest Highway 11, is a combination of state and county highways in Minnesota that travel between the historic communities of the Iron Range and Lake Superior's North Shore. The byway is 78 miles (126 km) of paved, two-lane roads and is marked by navigational signs with the SNFSB ...