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Arrowhead and Taconite State Trail EMERGENCY INFO In an emergency call 911 BAY MAP EXPLANATION Fort Francis SAND TRAIL Black International Falls 11 Bay C A N A D A TRAILS & THEIR PERMITTED USES Law Enforcement 11 71 Rainy Lake ARROWHEAD & State Patrol 218-749-7720 RAINY LAKE Itasca County Sheriff 218-326-3477 MAIN Island View TRAIL Arrowhead State Trail TACONITE Koochiching County Sheriff 218-283-4416 TRAIL 71 STATE TRAILS St. Louis County Sheriff (Virginia) 218-748-7510 332 (Hibbing) 218-262-0132 602 Voyageurs *Evenings and weekends 218-749-6010 Rainy Lake 332 Forest and Park Trails SLATINKSKI Area Police Departments 11 TRAIL CHAIN 53 RAINY LAKE OF TRAIL Ely 218-365-3222 HAGGERMAN 26 LAKES Tower 218-753-6660 TRAIL TO LITTLE State Forest Ski Trails Virginia 218-748-7510 FORK RIVER GRADE Grand Rapids 218-326-3464 TRAIL TRAIL 97 Woodenfrog D.N.R. Medical/Hospitals X National ALLS O Ericsburg F 119 3K TRAIL Grant–in–Aid Trails Ely 218-365-3271 12 Kabetogama Virginia 218-741-3340 8 Kabetogama Hibbing 218-262-4881 122 KETTLE D.N.R. Lake Grand Rapids 218-326-3401 BLUE BAY TRAIL TONE DAWG Namakan VOYAGEURS TRAIL TRAIL EAST VOYAGEUR NAMAKAN TRAIL SYMBOLS Kabetogama RUDER TRAIL Lake 3 123 WOODYS 3 TRAIL CRANE LAKE 122 Snowmobile Parking OTHER INFO Ash River 217 53 D.N.R. Ray P LOOP The Taconite and Arrowhead State Trails were 217 ark X-Country Ski Campground 29 BILL MORGAN TRAIL T authorized by the Minnesota Legislature in O Sand 129 Grand Rapids-Ely & Tower-International Falls 1974-5. These long-distance trails were developed Ash River Pont Hiking Shelter ASH RIVER ASH RIVER Lake primarily for winter use. As a result, sections FALLS Kabetogama 20 of these trails may be impassible during warm TRAIL 493 weather months when the ground is not frozen, Shelter/Campsite Picnic Area due to wet soils and standing water. Mountain MINNESOTA STATE PARKS AND TRAILS 8 CRANE LAKE TO bikers and horseback riders are urged to call the 521 ASH RIVER TRAIL Fire Tower Vista nearest Trails and Waterways Area office before Rveri leaving for their destination to inquire about 53 local trail conditions and amenities. N PARKING AVAILABLE Arbutus International Falls At Taconite: ARROWHEAD TRAIL - McCarthy Beach State Park Crane C A N A D A Ranch Road Vermilion Falls KOOCHICHING - Minnesota Hwy 73 Sheep U.S.F.S. Lake COUNTY Boundary W Ely - U.S. Hwy 53 Fort Kabetogama TRAIL 10 493 ITASCA Area Wilderness - Minnesota Hwy 1 ARROWHEAD Crane Lake COUNTY toll Francis CRANE LAKE TO TACONITE TRAIL - Minnesota Hwy 169, Peyla bridge ASH RIVER TRAIL 24 0 1 234 8 Grand Rapids ST. LOUIS - Minnesota Hwy 135, Tower NTERNATIONAL aters Canoe COUNTY I WHEAD LINK 424 O SCALE: one inch equals four miles At Arrowhead: U.S. Customs Rainy 6 ARR B CO. Duluth - 2 Mi. West of Hwy 169 on Hwy 1 FALLS River 518 Crane Lake UYCK 3rd. St. Ash Lake STATE 4th. St. CO. 2 11 T Trail Mileage CAMPING AVAILABLE: (Taconite only) O - McCarthy Beach State Park Ave. 9 Park ST. LOUIS ST. - Pfeifer Lake, National Forest KOOCHICHING VOYAGEUR COUNTRY TRAIL - Bear Head Lake State Park Hospital Minneapolis CRANE - Several rustic campsites along trail 11th. St. 8 Echo Lake St. Paul 332 Pelican 24 Echo Lake *All communities along the Taconite and Arrowhead River U.S.F.S. LAKE 9th. St. 15th. St. Elephant trails have food, fuel, lodging and retail areas Lake State TR. available to campers. International 53 Mall 11 Old Hwy.11 Superior TACONITE COMMUNITIES: Nett Lake 793 Buyck 71 TR - Grand Rapids GRADE Nett Lake AI Cusson ORR SPUR L “Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from programs of the Voyageurs NORTH 23 - Tower X 23 180 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is available to all National Picket L. - Ely Falls Park 24 individuals regardless of race, color, creed or religion, national origin, 11 Headquarters sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual - Side Lake BLUE O International 514 4 orientation, age or disability. Discrimination inquires should be sent Airport Nett Lake Indian ORR/BUYCK/ to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 500 Lafayette ARROWHEAD COMMUNITIES: National 53 Reservation Pelican CRANE LAKE TRAIL Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4031; or the Equal Opportunity Office, - Tower Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.” Lake - Cook 23 Orr 23 River - Orr Pelican Printed on recycled paper with a minimum of - International Falls 23 TM ORR SPUR 7 30% post-consumer material. SOUTH Trademark of American Soybean Association Glendale Forest NATURAL FEATURES 24 Elbow River Forest 119 53 THE ARROWHEAD TRAIL The trail links three state parks: Bear Head Lake, A variety of game fish including walleye, northern 426 THE ARROWHEAD & TACONITE STATE The southern part of the Arrowhead features rolling Soudan Underground Mine and McCarthy Beach. The pike, trout and smallmouth bass are found in the area’s Vermilion 422 TRAILS are located in northern Minnesota’s hills with numerous lakes and streams. Many of the landscape in and around Bear Head Lake State Park large numbers of lakes and rivers. The landscape of the Gheen Corner Hoodoo L. 24 74 Itasca, Koochiching and St. Louis counties. hills have large areas of exposed rock and enormous resembles the BWCAW. The park’s land is very rolling Gheen 422 area is a result of the under-lying geology. The area’s 12 24 They are primarily snowmobile trails and boulders. This part is heavily timbered with a mix of and rocky, elevations ranging from 1,450 feet up to bedrock formation known as the Canadian Shield is form the backbone to an extensive hardwoods and conifers. 1,590 feet. some of the oldest rock on earth. It was formed by This mix of trees on the Arrowhead is spectacularly volcanic action approximately 2.7 billion years ago. 667 Grant-in-Aid trail system. Portions of both colorful in autumn. 406 Soudan Underground Mine State Park is located on a Later, ancient seas laid down the valuable iron ore that Wakemup trails are suitable for horseback riding, as well The northern part of the trail is relatively flat between rugged ridge and contains the historic Soudan is still mined in the area today. Further volcanic Vermilion as mountain biking, hiking and backpacking International Falls and the Ash River. The higher underground mine. It is Minnesota’s only underground activity swept away the sea and formed two mountain Lake 73 ground is mainly forested with aspen; lower ground has iron ore mine open to the public. Tours descend 27 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the summer. Call the DNR for specific ranges. The advancing and receding of glaciers, and 71 information. a mix of spruce and ash. The trail goes through a levels to the bottom of the mine, where there is a millions of years of erosion have worn the mountains 540 number of areas that have standing water in the constant year-round temperature of 52 degrees. The down, resulting in the present rugged landscape found 78 Burntside State Forest summer which makes these portions of the trail mostly park also contains picturesque stands of old-growth along some parts of the trail. 78 The Arrowhead State Trail stretches 135 suited to winter use. white and norway pines mixed with balsam fir and Linden 11 miles, from 10 miles west of Tower at the aspen. The lower elevations are dominated by white The Arrowhead and Taconite State Trails provide a Grove 24 71 intersection of the Taconite State Trail, to cedar interspersed with balsam fir, tamarack, black great opportunity to explore this area. To preserve this 1 431 spruce, ash and muskeg. opportunity for the future, please respect the area's 500 River Cook Ericsburg, 10 miles south of International Little Fork 500 79 plant and wildlife communities. 25 Vermilion Lake 169 Falls. The trail user may see a ridge of solid white Sturgeon Vermilion Lk. 1 Native northern Minnesota wildlife is abundant along 12 Ind. Res. Soudan Under- pine changing to a ravine of mixed both trails. Some species to watch for are moose, 73 79 ground Mine 25 State Park 85 77 The Taconite State Trail stretches 165 miles hardwoods, then a ridge of aspen, birch timber wolf, brush wolf, white-tailed deer, black bear, River BEARSKIN 53 lynx, porcupine, red fox, snowshoe hare, fisher, pine TRAIL 20 from Grand Rapids to Ely and intersects with Sturgeon River 413 Star and basswood blended with maples. 923 Tower marten and red squirrel. 87 Soudan Lake the Arrowhead State Trail just west of Lake STATE 12 491 State 78 1 476 Vermilion. Eight trail waysides and picnic 169 3 Over 100 varieties of birds live in the area. Some TR THE TACONITE TRAIL winds through forests of 22 AIL facilities offer scenic vistas of the hills, lakes 22 1 State Forest Putnam birds, like the grosbeaks, nuthatches, chickadees and WOLF 1 Peyla birch and aspen intertwined with pine, leading the Shermans 12 Lake Bear Head and rivers of this area. pileated woodpeckers, inhabit the area year- 481 688 Corner Angora TRACK 2 visitor by many isolated lakes and streams. From TRAIL PUTNAM LAKE Lake round. Birds like the snow bunting and snowy owl 492 Forest 487 Big Aspen TRAIL State Park Grand Rapids heading north, you see the impact of the NOTE: Pfeiffer Pike West 135 25 River migrate south from the arctic for the winter; the bald 53 Lake Two River taconite and iron mining industry. Between McCarthy U.S.F.S. 6 411 eagle, osprey, warblers and fly catchers migrate north Some private lands exist within the shaded areas for 467 Pike IRON Bear Island State Forest Beach State Park and Ely the terrain is rolling and tree 467 405 State & National Forest lands, and State Parks land.
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