The landscape of the Boundary Waters is an ancient Boreal forest, and visitors to the area are amazed with the beautiful scenery, abundant wildlife and the GREAT fishing. All the campsites are accessible by water only. It is a 1 million acre wilderness with over 1000 miles of canoe routes and over 2, 200 campsites. The Boundary Waters Wilderness borders northern Minnesota and Canada. We at Timber Trail Lodge can make entering the Boundary Waters for any length of time a part of your Minnesota family or fishing vacation. The Greenstone rock found in this area is over 2.7 billion years old. The Boundary Waters is the lower portion of the Canadian Shield and was formed over 17000 years ago when glaciers scoured the landscape leaving exposed bedrock.
National Geographic Magazine proclaimed the Boundary Waters “as one of 50 places a person should visit in their lifetime”. Of significant note the Boundary Waters is located in the Superior National Forest and is the largest wilderness east of the Rockies. Prior to Ojibwe settlement, the area was sparsely populated by the Sioux who dispersed westward following the arrival of the Ojibwe. The BWCAW is part of the historic homeland of the Ojibwe people, who traveled the waterways in canoes covered in birch bark. Within the BWCAW are hundreds of prehistoric pictographs and petroglyphs on rock ledges and cliffs. The Boundary Waters Wilderness Area is managed by the US Forest Service and can only be entered by a permit issued by a cooperator such as Timber Trail Lodge or Boundary Waters Outfitters. The Wilderness Act of 1964 made the BWCAW legal wilderness as a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System, while the 1978 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act established the Boundary Waters regulations much as they are today with motors allowed only on a few large entry point lakes. We are home to the Boundary Waters, which is also called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Unlike most areas in Minnesota it is a true wilderness destination. Northern Minnesota is a very unique place for vacationers to visit.
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