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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.
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.
The Border Route Trail Association was incorporated in 2004 to coordinate the maintenance and increase public awareness of the trail. Legislation passed by Congress in 2019 enacted a major re-route of the North Country Trail in northern Minnesota which included the Border Route Trail as an official part of the North Country Trail along with the ...
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 ...
The plague of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, long ignored and underappreciated throughout North America, has become more widely acknowledged in recent years, thanks to consciousness ...
At more than 14,500 feet in elevation, Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the "lower 48" states, according to National Park Service, and is the eleventh highest peak in the country. It lies ...
The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior country ...
An active search is underway for a 66-year-old Michigan woman who disappeared from a popular tourist hot spot during a trip to the Grand Canyon more than a week ago, officials said.