to Finland & TETTEGOUCHE Tettegouche Camp Mic North Shore State Trail to Finland Tettegouche Mac FINLAND 25 to 24 TRAILS main Baptism River Walk-in Sites Lake (23,24,25) STATE PARK trailhead FINLAND STATE FOREST Campground 3.4 miles toilet A 27e Trail Junctions 22e STATE Eckbeck 28 20e 1 Campground 29 Superior Hiking Trail 31 26 23 17 FACILITIES AND Lodge FOREST NORTH 21e (Hiking/Snowshoe) River (day-use shelter) 30e 16 FEATURES Cabin C 31e 19e 18 33e 32e Snowmobile • 23 miles of hiking trails with Sawtooth 15e Trail 34e 14e numerous scenic overlooks, Cabin A Road to ATV/Snowmobile Restrooms/ 12e 13 to Showers Tettegouche Trail Trailhead & including a self-guided Mt. Park 1e 3 sm toilet Ba 5e Baldy ptism Entrance 10e 11e Hiking/Cross-Country Ski 1400 2e Bapti interpretive trail to Shovel Restroom/ 4e 9e Cabin D Trailhead Shower easy Point Parking for Trail Tettegouche toilet 6 Cabin B Camp Illgen more difficult • 34 semi-modern campsites Service Road River Walk-in to Lax Lake Falls Sites Nicadoo Cr. Cabin (6,7,8) (flush toilets and showers) Entrance to Underlined site numbers most difficult Sawtooth Papasay ILLG1 1.5 miles to Palisade Ridge are RESERVABLE 8 7 • 13 cart-in campsites Floating Valley Nicado Bog Bay Overlook F Lake Hiking/Snowshoe • Five picnic areas—Baptism 1.4 k Sawtooth Tra il River, Nipisquit Lake, Bean 1400 G E 1 61 Self-guided Interpretive 0.5 2.4 k 200 0 1.0 Mt. Baldy 1000 1 Lake, Tettegouche Camp Miles Mosquito Nipisiquit Lk. D 2.9 k Lake (Hiking/Snowshoe) 2.6 k Cr. Superior and Trailhead Mosquito C High 0 0.5 1.0 J T Falls ettegouche T Lake Superior Water Trail • Class I Wayside Rest Area at Kilometers r. 4.6 k (trail 2.2 k bridge) (Kayak) Baptism River Lax 00 31 Lake 14 Two Steps • Trout and salmon fishing in Mic Mac Lake rail Tettegouche H Falls FACILITIES C 00 e Road Lake SEE DETAIL B (no trail 8 both the Baptism River and NORTH k Cedar ABOVE bridge) Lax La ke Crystal Lake Superior Lake Tettegouche L Bay Park Office/Visitor Center Lax La Lake 1000 A ILLGEN The Cascades CITY • Northern pike and walleye K Raven Trailhead I Rock Highway Rest Area fishing in four inland lakes Floating 1400 Bog Bay Conservancy 800 Pines (access by foot trail only) State Park Shovel Picnic Area 1400 00 ost Land12 Open Point • Four waterfalls on the Palisade Mile PCr. Trail to Hunting Parking Baptism River, including 43 Valley Dot Trail Minnesota’s highest 1400 SEE DETAIL BELOW 1200 Red Overlook Mt. and back of this sheet waterfall Trudee • 12 miles of designated ski Waterfall 61 trails Trail Creek 00 Campground

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State Park Blue Jay Backpack Campsites The park’s main winter attrac- Red Dot Trail Dot Land Open Lake tions are skiing, snowshoeing, 1to200 Hunting Boat Ramp Cedar hiking, camping and snowmo- Trail Superior 1400 Pal Carry-in Access (kayak) biling. isade Creek Water Round Kayak Campsite Snowmobiles may unload in the Mtn. uperior wayside rest parking lots. Trails from S Highway Rest Area Park Entrance Cart-in Campground Bear and State Park there allow the snowmobilers to go to 1400 Palisade Finland, Silver Bay and the North Lake Head Entrance Rental Cabin Baptism Shore State Trail. to 140 0 North River Primitive Group Camp Shore Bean State Superior Trail Lake 00 14 Private Property Public Use Prohibited Red Dot Tr. Road to Campground (except on designated trails) & Trailhead Lake 61 Lake State Park Lands Open to Hunting Superior SILVER Because lands exist within the boundaries of this park that are not under Northwoods BAY the jurisdiction of the D.N.R., check with the park manager if you plan to Ski Trail use facilities such as trails and roads other than those shown. © 6/2014 by State of Minnesota, System Department of Natural Resources cultural features are also preserved in shoreline through stands of paper birch Tettegouche Camp, a complex of rustic log and aspen and around numerous cedar Park Entrance buildings dating back to the final days of and black ash wetlands. This area of the the logging area. park was completely logged and NORTH TETTEGOUCHE burned—look for moss and lichen Park Office HISTORY: In 1898 the Alger-Smith Lumber Water/Firewood STATE PARK covered stumps and notice the brushy Baptism Company began cutting the virgin pine character of this early successional forests of northeastern Minnesota. A 61 Duluth community. As the trail nears the inland • logging camp was set up on the shores of a lakes, an open forest of sugar maple, lake the loggers called Mic Mac, after the Rest Area yellow birch, basswood, and white River major Indian tribe from their native New and spruce abruptly replaces the aspen and State Park Office Brunswick, Canada. They took the Mic Minneapolis/ birch. Large areas of the west-central part Mac’s Algonquin names for New St. Paul • of Tettegouche are dominated by this Brunswick landmarks and gave them to Road to Drive-in n mature forest. As the trail climbs the Campground & rt-i Lake Superior the lakes in Minnesota. In 1910, after Trailhead ridges above the lakes, scattered stands of sites removing most of the Norway and white trail to ca remnant Norway and white pine are TRAILS pine, the Alger-Smith Company sold the (use underpass) encountered and on the driest ridge tops E logging camp and surrounding acreage to Parking & narrow bands of red oak are common. A Hiking/Snowshoe the “Tettegouche Club”, a group of Cart Storage Take time to explore these B TETTEGOUCHE businessmen from Duluth who used the F Interpretive trails—adventurous hikes are rewarded area as a fishing camp and retreat. One of G STATE PARK with numerous scenic vistas of the Snowmobile its members, Clement K. Quinn, bought C H Sawtooth Mountains, Lake Superior, and FACILITIES the others out in 1921 and continued to act 61 FOR MORE INFORMATION the park’s inland lakes. D TETTEGOUCHE STATE PARK as protector for the area until 1971 when Park Office/Visitor Center Tettegouche State Park I Lake Superior Mr. Quinn sold Tettegouche to the WILDLIFE: The wide variety of plant Cart-in Campground 5702 Highway 61 East deLaittres. The deLaittres continued Mr. communities in Tettegouche supports Parking Silver Bay, MN 55614 Quinn’s tradition of stewardship for the more than 40 species of mammals. Most N J (218) 353-8800 Underlined site numbers Picnic Area land, beginning negotiations several years commonly seen are the white-tailed deer, K are RESERVABLE  later for the preservation of Tettegouche as snowshoe hare, red squirrel, and beaver. M Walk-in Sites Department of Natural Resources L Beach a state park. During these negotiations, the Less commonly observed are moose, Park Boundary Access Toilets Information Center Nature Conservancy, a private land black bear, red fox, and river otter. 500 Lafayette Road conservation organization, played a vital Occasionally, coyote, fisher, pine marten, 500 0 500 1000 Feet St. Paul, MN 55155-4040 role (along with other concerned northern flying squirrel, and even timber individuals and groups) in the transfer of wolf are seen. (651) 296-6157 (Metro Area) and numerous rock outcroppings. The • Inform yourself of park rules. Park rules ownership. Finally, on June 29, 1979, 1-888-646-6367 (MN Toll Free) Northeastern Minnesota is recognized as North Shore drainage pattern is one of are enforced. legislation was enacted establishing one of the better areas in the nation for short, steep rivers with many waterfalls Tettegouche as a Minnesota state park. TDD (Telecommunications finding rare birds. Diversity of habitat, and deeply-eroded gorges. SPECIAL RULES: Device for Deaf) VEGETATION: Presettlement vegetation in geography, and proximity to Lake • Only non-motorized boats and canoes Some present-day features, however, are the Tettegouche area consisted of a Superior combine to produce a variety of may be used on the park’s inland lakes. (651) 296-5484 (Metro Area) the result of much older geologic 1-800-657-3929 (MN Toll Free) mixture of Norway and white pine, birdlife at Tettegouche—in all, 140 species Watercraft must be removed from the processes. About 1.1 billion years ago, northern hardwood, aspen-birch, have been identified. Summer finds park at the end of each day. North America began to spread apart spruce-fir, and cedar wetland kinglets, spruce grouse, and many • Build fires only in fire rings provided. mndnr.gov/parks along a rift that extended from what is communities. Large-scale logging at the northern warblers nesting in bogs and Visitors are encouraged to use camping now Lake Superior all the way to Kansas. turn of the century and subsequent fires coniferous forest. In fall, hawks migrating stoves or charcoal grills rather than Dense basaltic lava from beneath what is TETTEGOUCHE STATE PARK is located in the 1920s drastically changed the along the shore of Lake Superior number build open fires. now Lake Superior caused the flows to tilt in Lake County, 4 1/2 miles northeast of densities of most species. Aspen-birch in the tens of thousands. Winter is an • Hunting is prohibited except in 10˚ to 20˚ to the southeast. Spectacular Silver Bay on Minnesota Highway 61, state second growth forest now dominates excellent time to see northern owls, designated areas. examples of these lava flows are Palisade highway map index: O-8. approximately one-half of the park, woodpeckers, finches, and unusual water Head one mile southwest of the park and followed in importance by sugar birds. Established in 1979 to preserve an Shovel Point just northeast of the Baptism This information is available in maple-yellow birch and cedar wetland outstanding example of the Northshore GEOLOGY: The North Shore of Lake River. Sloping inland up to 18 miles from alternative format upon request. associations. Highlands Biocultural Region, Superior is a random alternation of rocky Lake Superior, these weathered flows Tettegouche State Park contains a unique The best way to experience the cliffs, pebble beaches, and bold headlands. form the “Sawtooth Mountains” of “The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is an combination of natural features: rugged complexity and diversity of Tettegouche’s The landscape owes its character to the northern Lake and Cook County. Equal Oppportunity Employer” semi-mountainous terrain, Lake Superior vegetative landscape is by hiking its trail differential erosion of bedrock by running Minnesota shoreline, inland lakes, cascading rivers system. Beginning at the Baptism River water and glaciers. Glacial action over the SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE PARK . . . and waterfalls, and undisturbed northern highway rest area, a foot trail climbs the last two million years was mainly erosive, • The park belongs to all Minnesotans. hardwood forest. Important historical and © 6/2014 by State of Minnesota, gentle slope of Lake Superior’s ancient resulting in thin soils, scoured lake basins, Treat it with respect. DEPARTMENT OF Department of Natural Resources NATURAL RESOURCES