After visiting Voyageurs National Park, we drove back to Grand Portage through Canada and visited two Ontario Provincial Parks. Ontario has 112 Provincial Parks, about the same as you find in the state of Texas. Ontario’s size is equivalent to Texas and Montana combined. The first provincial park we visited was Quetico: “a wilderness sanctum …
From September 2016
Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park was our primary destination last week when we explored northern Minnesota. We had been wanting to go there all summer but couldn’t get reservations at any of the hotels / lodges in the area until the end of August. So we had to wait. Even though Voyageurs National Park is almost directly …
Building a Birch Bark Canoe
An ongoing project this summer at Grand Portage has been building a birch bark canoe. The staff of the park build one every other summer and we were lucky enough to be here in a year that they were building. All the staff have participated in various ways. Tom and I helped harvest birch bark …