You'll be amazed at how quickly the forest has regenerated itself. In the far northwestern part of Quetico Provincial Park, in particular, you may find the dilapidated remains of old dams and sluiceways, rusted cables and long steel spikes, abandoned machinery, and clearings where cabins once stood. In a few parts of the wilderness you may also find remnants of the early logging activity. More common in the wilderness are sites of Indian rock paintings that may be several hundred years old, although the age, the artists, and the purpose of the pictographs are yet unknown. Recent archaeological excavations on the perimeter of the BWCA Wilderness have uncovered artifacts from Native American cultures dating back to more than 10,000 years ago.
The wilderness waterways and portage trails have been used for literally thousands of years, and visitors to Canoe Country may still see reminders of those who have travelled there in an earlier time. With any imagination at all, you'll be sharing your trip with the Native Americans of the 17th Century, the Voyageurs of the 18th Century, the trappers and settlers of the 19th Century, and the loggers and mineral prospectors of the early 20th Century. It is both our sanity and the object of our affection. It is set apart and special, but everyone can visit this beautiful country. The Boundary Waters is protected and yet accessible. It is without a doubt the best medicine for stress relief and one of the most fantastic places you can introduce children too at a young age. It is a place to escape and get closer to things bigger than yourself. It is a paradise away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. The songs of birds both seen and unseen create a symphony like none other as you walk paths taken by Native Americans centuries past. Panfish and Sunnies are the delight of children and adults alike. These cold northern waters provide sport and food with their vast variety of fish from the legendary Lake Trout and Northern Pike to the coveted Walleye and the spirited Bass. It is home to the Timberwolf, Moose, Common Loon, American Bald Eagle, Beaver, Muskrat, Otter, Pine Martin, Red Squirrel, Fisher, Fox, and many more of our animal brothers. It is home to countless ecosystems, the biodiversity of swamps, bogs, streams, watersheds, wetlands, rivers, and lakes. It is still one of the most pristine places you can travel and camp, and is one of the few places on earth where you can find water pure enough for drinking in the wild. In conjunction with Quetico Provincial Park in Canada this beautiful area is home to over 2000 lakes connected by rivers and portages that are only accessible to paddlers. Because this area was set aside in 1926 to preserve its primitive character and made a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1964, it allows visitors to canoe, portage and camp in the spirit of the French Voyageurs of 200 years ago.Here in Ely, Minnesota, our backyard is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Wilderness offers freedom to those who wish to pursue an experience of expansive solitude, challenge and personal integration with nature. The area contains more than 1,200 miles of canoe routes, 12 hiking trails and more than 2,000 designated campsites. More than 1 million acres, it extends nearly 150 miles along the international boundary adjacent to Canada’s Quetico Provincial Park and is bordered on the west by Voyageurs National Park.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area is in the northern third of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota. The glaciers left behind rugged cliffs and crags, canyons, gentle hills, towering rock formations, rocky shores, sandy beaches and several thousand lakes and streams, interspersed with islands and surrounded by forest.
Great glaciers carved the physical features of what is today known as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness by scraping and gouging rock.
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