Origins: Retreating glacial ice sheets paved way for landscape of lakes, streams, forests. Indigenous people soon followed as chronicled in pictographs, often made on prominent rock walls by natives ...

Some nights Denise Morris dreams about a full, low-hanging moon reflected in the darkness of a still lake in the northern woods. Pine needles glimmer in the moonlight, and loons wail across the water.

If you love to camp, fish and paddle a canoe, Quetico fulfills your wildest dream. Some 6,000 lakes, 32 waterfalls and 4,467 islands are waiting to be explored only by wind or muscle power. And that’s ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota and the adjoining Quetico Provincial Park in northwestern Ontario, aka Canoe Country, can be heavenly, with water so clear and ...

ELY, Minn. — The big bull moose was on the portage trail, mere feet from where Miles Larson and three buddies were walking while portaging their canoes on a trip that took them through portions of ...

The night fire burns low in our camp high above the water on Conmee Lake. A few of us are gathered there on this June night, watching the sky fade to a deep blue through the boughs of Norway pines.

QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK, Ontario -- My father is not an outdoorsman. Before our trip through some of Canada's best wilderness, he'd never even been in a canoe. But last fall, my dad and I spent five ...

Jeremy Dickson knows well the sound of a phone not ringing. The owner of Canoe Canada Outfitters in Atikokan, Ontario, Dickson until two years ago oversaw a business that flew 1,500 anglers into ...

ONTARIO'S QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK -- Well, it has happened again. We have become little boys. The walleyes are biting so fast and so hard that we are as giddy as kids catching sunnies from a cabin ...

THOMPSON, N.D. – Bryan Ford has a nice fishing boat parked in his yard, but it probably won’t see water this summer. Don’t feel too bad for Ford, though, he’s still getting plenty of quality time on ...