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Bear Head Lake State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, providing ready access to outdoor recreation in the Boundary Waters region. It boasts scenery similar to the nearby Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness , with the added conveniences of road access, modern facilities, and motorboating.
.25 miles (0.40 km) south is a scenic overlook, which provides the clearest view of the river for motorists. The overlook abuts the private Boomsite Marina, but a short distance downstream is a separate public boat launch. [8] Traces of log boom operation are scant, as most of the structures were removed when the business closed in 1914. [4]
This left behind the East Savanna River which drains into the Saint Louis River, Lake Superior, the lower Great Lakes, and the Saint Lawrence River, and to the west, the West Savanna River, which is tributary to the Mississippi River via the Prairie River and Big Sandy Lake. [4]: 110–11 [5]: 129–31 [6]: 26, 28–29
Pokegama Lake is the name used for two lakes in the U.S. state of Minnesota. One is located near Grand Rapids in Itasca County. [1] [2] The lake was made into a reservoir by the construction of the Pokegama Lake Dam on the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota. The other Pokegama is located near Pine City in Pine County. [3]
Monson Lake, whose shore forms the western boundary of the park, is 152 acres (62 ha) and up to 21 feet (6.4 m) deep. [4] West Sunburg Lake is about 178 acres (72 ha). [3]: 26 Monson Lake has three inlets, and one outlet to West Sunburg. [4] The lakes are part of the watershed of the Chippewa River, a tributary of the Minnesota River. [3]: 24
Grand Portage State Park is a state park at the northeastern tip of the U.S. state of Minnesota, on the Canada–United States border.It contains a 120-foot (37 m) waterfall, the tallest in the state (though it is on the border with Canada and thus partially in Ontario), on the Pigeon River.
The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.
The 1,230 acres (500 ha) legally designated include 3.1 miles (5.0 km) of shoreline on Greenleaf Lake and 5.7 miles (9.2 km) on Sioux Lake. [4]: 1 This is nearly half of the lakes' natural shoreline. [2] Their outflow drains into three other lakes before reaching the South Fork of the Crow River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. The SRA is ...