Easiest Winter Camping Ever
By Rocky Thompson on March 1st, 2010
This might be the laziest way to get your National Park travel in this winter. Voyageurs National Park is a place you can only truly access in a canoe or kayak. Most travelers prefer canoes since they’re easier to drag around on the numerous and lengthy portages. But since Voyagers is in Northern Minnesota, you don’t even need to take the canoe off the roof of your car in winter. They have two ice roads that run over the frozen lakes allowing you to get deep into the park without getting your boots wet. Better hope you can get your car out by spring if you get stuck.
we use to drive a mile or two out on to huron and lake erie when it use to get colder and freeze. nice to ice fish next to the vehicle for sure. don’t try to jump any serious cracks, on foot or wheel. some fools always do that in the spring and a south wind comes up and they end up adrift on a sheet of ice and need a heli rescue.
You’re thinking of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a federal wilderness area to the east of Voyageurs National Park. The BWCAW is a (mostly) non-motorized wilderness managed by the Forest Service.
Voyageurs National Park is just that, a national park under the authority of the National Park Service. It is open to motors on all its lakes, primarily the four massive lakes that comprise some 75% of the area of the Park. The big water makes it not a bad place for kayaking, but pretty poor for canoeing.