to Finland & Tettegouche Camp Mic North Shore TETTEGOUCHE State Trail to Finland Tettegouche Mac FINLAND 25 to Baptism River 24 Walk-in Sites TRAILS main Lake Campground (23,24,25) STATE PARK trailhead FINLAND STATE FOREST 3.4 miles toilet 27e A Trail Junctions 22e STATE Eckbeck 28 20e 1 Campground 29 Superior Hiking Trail 31 26e 17 r 23 e FOREST v Lodge NORTH 21e i (Hiking/Snowshoe) R FACILITIES AND (day-use shelter) 30e 16 Cabin C 31e 19e 18 33e 32e Snowmobile FEATURES Sawtooth 15e Trail 34e • 23 miles of hiking trails with 14e Cabin A Road to ATV/Snowmobile Restrooms/ 12e 13 numerous scenic overlooks, to Showers Te Trailhead & ttegouche Trail Park 1e 3 Mt. toilet B 5e including a self-guided Baldy ap Entrance 10e 11e Hiking/Cross-Country Ski 1 tis 4 Restroom/ 2e Baptism 0 m 4e 9e interpretive trail to Shovel Cabin D Trailhead 0 Shower easy Parking for Trail Tettegouche toilet 6 Point Cabin B Service Road Camp River Illgen Walk-in more difficult • 34 semi-modern campsites to Lax Lake Falls Sites N Cabin Underlined site numbers (6,7,8) Entrance i to c Sawtooth Papasay most difficult 1.5 miles a ILLG1 (flush toilets and showers) to Palisade d Ridge are RESERVABLE 8 7 o Floating Valley o Nicado

Bog Bay Overlook C • 13 cart-in campsites r Lake Hiking/Snowshoe . F 1.4 k Sawtooth Trail 00 • Five picnic areas—Baptism 14 G E 0 1 0 61 Self-guided Interpretive 2.4 k 2 0.5 0 River, Nipisquit Lake, Bean 0 1.0 Mt. Baldy 0 1 1 Miles Mosquito D 0 Nipisiquit Lk. 2.9 k Lake (Hiking/Snowshoe) Lake, Tettegouche Camp and 2.6 k Cr. Superior High Mo 0 0.5 1.0 J sq T Falls Trailhead uito e Water Trail Kilometers C 4.6 k tte (trail r. g 2.2 k o • Class I Wayside Rest Area at u bridge) 0 c (Kayak) Lax 0 h 4 e 1 T Baptism River 31 Lake ra Two Steps Mic Mac Lake il Falls d Tettegouche H FACILITIES • Trout and salmon fishing in oa C (no trail e R Lake SEE DETAIL B 800 NORTH ak x L Cedar ABOVE bridge) both the Baptism River and La e Crystal ak Lake Tettegouche Information/Office L L 1 A ILLGEN Bay ax Lake 000 Lake Superior L The Cascades CITY K Raven Trailhead I Rock • Northern pike and walleye Floating Highway Rest Area 1400 Bog Bay Conservancy fishing in four inland lakes 800 Pines State Park Shovel Picnic Area (access by foot trail only) 1400 st Land1200 Open Point Po Palisade rail Mile r. T to Hunting • Four waterfalls on the Baptism 43 C Valley Parking Dot T River, including ’s 00 rail 14 ed R SEE DETAIL BELOW 1200 Overlook highest waterfall Mt. and back of this sheet • 12 miles of designated ski trails Trudee Waterfall 61 k rail

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The park’s main winter attractions e d are skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, Blue Jay State Park Red Dot Trail Backpack Campsites D Land Open camping and snowmobiling. o t to Hunting 1200 Lake Boat Ramp r Snowmobiles may unload in the wayside Cedar T ra te Superior il a rest parking lots. Trails from there allow 1400 Palisade Carry-in Access (kayak) Creek W the snowmobilers to go to Finland, Silver Round Bay and the North Shore State Trail. Mtn. Kayak Campsite Superior Highway Rest Area Park Entrance Cart-in Campground Bear and State Park 1400 Palisade Lake Head Entrance Rental Cabin

to 1400 Baptism North River Primitive Group Camp LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION? Shore Bean State Superior Lake The DNR has mapped the state showing federal, Trail Private Property state and county lands with their recreational 1400 facilities. Public Use Prohibited Public Recreation Information Maps (PRIM) are Red Dot Tr. Road to available for purchase from the DNR gift shop, DNR Campground (except on designated trails) regional offices, Minnesota state parks and major & Trailhead sporting and map stores. Lake 61 Lake State Park Lands Open to Hunting Check it out - you'll be glad you did. 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. © 1/2010 by State of Minnesota, System Department of Natural Resources ical and cultural features are also preserved This area of the park was completely logged in Tettegouche Camp, a complex of rustic log and burned—look for moss and lichen cov- Park Entrance buildings dating back to the final days of the ered stumps and notice the brushy character Park Office NORTH logging area. of this early successional community. As the Water/Firewood TETTEGOUCHE trail nears the inland lakes, an open forest HISTORY: In 1898 the Alger-Smith Lumber STATE PARK of sugar maple, yellow birch, basswood, Baptism Company began cutting the virgin pine forests and white spruce abruptly replaces the aspen 61 of northeastern Minnesota. A logging camp Duluth • and birch. Large areas of the west-central was set up on the shores of a lake the loggers part of Tettegouche are dominated by this Rest Area called Mic Mac, after the major Indian tribe River mature forest. As the trail climbs the ridges and from their native New Brunswick, Canada. State Park Office above the lakes, scattered stands of remnant Minneapolis/ They took the Mic Mac’s Algonquin names Norway and white pine are encountered St. Paul • for New Brunswick landmarks and gave them and on the driest ridge tops narrow bands Road to Drive-in to the lakes in Minnesota. In 1910, after re- Campground & Lake Superior of red oak are common. Take time to explore Trailhead moving most of the Norway and white pine, these trails—adventurous hikes are reward- trail to cart-in sites the Alger-Smith Company sold the logging (use underpass) TRAILS ed with numerous scenic vistas of the Saw- E camp and surrounding acreage to the Parking & tooth Mountains, Lake Superior, and the A Hiking/Snowshoe “Tettegouche Club”, a group of businessmen Cart Storage park’s inland lakes. B TETTEGOUCHE from Duluth who used the area as a fishing F Interpretive G camp and retreat. One of its members, Clem- WILDLIFE: The wide variety of plant com- Snowmobile STATE PARK ent K. Quinn, bought the others out in 1921 munities in Tettegouche supports more than C H FACILITIES and continued to act as protector for the area 40 species of mammals. Most commonly 61 FOR MORE INFORMATION until 1971 when Mr. Quinn sold Tettegouche seen are the white-tailed deer, snowshoe D Tettegouche State Park I Lake Superior Park Office 5702 Highway 61 East to the deLaittres. The deLaittres continued hare, red squirrel, and beaver. Less common- Cart-in Campground Mr. Quinn’s tradition of stewardship for the ly observed are moose, black bear, red fox, Parking Silver Bay, MN 55614 N J (218) 226-6365 land, beginning negotiations several years and river otter. Occasionally, coyote, fisher, Underlined site numbers Picnic Area ♦ later for the preservation of Tettegouche as a pine marten, northern flying squirrel, and K are RESERVABLE M Walk-in Sites Department of Natural Resources state park. During these negotiations, the even timber wolf are seen. L Beach Information Center Nature Conservancy, a private land conserva- Park Boundary Access Toilets Northeastern Minnesota is recognized as 500 Lafayette Road tion organization, played a vital role (along 500 0 500 1000 Feet one of the better areas in the nation for St. Paul, MN 55155-4040 with other concerned individuals and groups) finding rare birds. Diversity of habitat, ge- in the transfer of ownership. Finally, on June ography, and proximity to Lake Superior About 1.1 billion years ago, North America craft must be removed from the park at (651) 296-6157 (Metro Area) 29, 1979, legislation was enacted establishing 1-888-646-6367 (MN Toll Free) combine to produce a variety of birdlife at began to spread apart along a rift that extend- the end of each day. Tettegouche as a Minnesota state park. Tettegouche—in all, 140 species have been ed from what is now Lake Superior all the • Build fires only in fire rings provided. TDD (Telecommunications VEGETATION: Presettlement vegetation in identified. Summer finds kinglets, spruce way to Kansas. Dense basaltic lava from Visitors are encouraged to use camping Device for Deaf) the Tettegouche area consisted of a mixture grouse, and many northern warblers nesting beneath what is now Lake Superior caused stoves or charcoal grills rather than build (651) 296-5484 (Metro Area) of Norway and white pine, northern hard- in bogs and coniferous forest. In fall, hawks the flows to tilt 10˚ to 20˚ to the southeast. open fires. 1-800-657-3929 (MN Toll Free) wood, aspen-birch, spruce-fir, and cedar migrating along the shore of Lake Superior Spectacular examples of these lava flows are • Hunting is prohibited except in designated DNR Web Site: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us wetland communities. Large-scale logging number in the tens of thousands. Winter is Palisade Head one mile southwest of the park areas. at the turn of the century and subsequent an excellent time to see northern owls, wood- and Shovel Point just northeast of the Baptism State Parks page: www.mnstateparks.info ♦ fires in the 1920s drastically changed the peckers, finches, and unusual water birds. River. Sloping inland up to 18 miles from densities of most species. Aspen-birch second GEOLOGY: The North Shore of Lake Supe- Lake Superior, these weathered flows form growth forest now dominates approximately This information is available in TETTEGOUCHE STATE PARK is located in rior is a random alternation of rocky cliffs, the “Sawtooth Mountains” of northern Lake one-half of the park, followed in importance alternative format upon request. Lake County, 4 1/2 miles northeast of Silver pebble beaches, and bold headlands. The and Cook County. by sugar maple-yellow birch and cedar wet- Bay on Minnesota Highway 61, state highway landscape owes its character to the differential “Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from land associations. SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE PARK . . . programs of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resourc- map index: O-8. erosion of bedrock by running water and • The park belongs to all Minnesotans. Treat es is available to all individuals regardless of race, color, The best way to experience the complexity glaciers. Glacial action over the last two mil- creed or religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status Established in 1979 to preserve an outstand- it with respect. ing example of the Northshore Highlands and diversity of Tettegouche’s vegetative lion years was mainly erosive, resulting in with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, age landscape is by hiking its trail system. Be- thin soils, scoured lake basins, and numerous • Inform yourself of park rules. Park rules or disability. Discrimination inquires should be sent to the Biocultural Region, Tettegouche State Park are enforced. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, contains a unique combination of natural ginning at the Baptism River highway rest rock outcroppings. The North Shore drainage 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4031; Minnesota features: rugged semi-mountainous terrain, area, a foot trail climbs the gentle slope of pattern is one of short, steep rivers with many or the Equal Opportunity Office, Department SPECIAL RULES: of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.” Lake Superior shoreline, inland lakes, cascad- Lake Superior’s ancient shoreline through waterfalls and deeply-eroded gorges. stands of paper birch and aspen and around • Only non-motorized boats and canoes may ing rivers and waterfalls, and undisturbed DEPARTMENT OF Some present-day features, however, are the be used on the park’s inland lakes. Water- NATURAL RESOURCES northern hardwood forest. Important histor- numerous cedar and black ash wetlands. © 1/2010 by State of Minnesota, result of much older geologic processes. Department of Natural Resources DNR Maps