Winter in the Boundary Waters isn’t exactly peak season, but it’s still popular for skiing, snowshoeing, and ice fishing. Summer paddlers make the BWCA the nation’s most visited wilderness, with the ...

The northeastern corner of Minnesota is the home of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), stretching 120 miles west from the shores of Lake Superior along the Canadian border and the ...

Nelson grew up in Burnsville, the daughter of longtime Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness visitors Steve and Kathy Nelson. As a girl, she accompanied her parents to the BWCA and by age 16 she ...

This was our fourth trip to Ensign Lake, 20 miles east of Ely, Minn., in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Mike’s son, 29-year-old Connor, joined us this year. He was eager to camp anywhere there ...

When the U.S. House passed the legislation two months ago, H.R. 4089 didn’t get much attention. But the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 increasingly is being viewed as an assault on fe… ...

When boundary waters fishing slows in August, Stu shifts to the Sutton River in Ontario, a fly-in operation he leads for anglers wanting to catch world-class brook trout.

When the U.S. House passed the legislation two months ago, H.R. 4089 didn't get much attention. But the Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012 increasingly is being viewed as an assault on federal ...

Jacob Skorloken caught one of the biggest pike in Minnesota history while fishing the Boundary Waters in May. It won't qualify as a record because of a DNR rule around photographs, but Skorloken ...

With the August sun sparkling on Lake One, Chase Coyle stuffed dry sacks full of food for a four-day trip into the Boundary Waters. “It’s a great place to preserve. Once it’s wrecked, it’s ...

The BWCAW is a go-to destination for wilderness paddling in northern Minnesota. Alex Robinson On Wednesday the Biden Administration dealt a potentially fatal blow to a proposed mining project near the ...

We set up our camp in the same location as last year. Ty Smedes, wildlife photographer and writer wanted to be near the loon nesting sites he studied, recorded, and photographed in the past. Mike ...

Minnesota’s legendary Boundary Waters Canoe Area can be scary big. The lakes are sometimes huge, or an angry gothic green, and canoe trips there are the stuff of family legend. With around 1 ...