Superior Hiking

Round-Trip: 1 km Difficulty:  Easy Location:  Grand Portage, MN Click Here for Google Map The Witch Tree also known as the Little Spirit Cedar Tree, is a gnarled old tree growing out of the rocks on the shoreline of Lake Superior near Grand Portage, Minnesota. Local Ojibwe hold the tree sacred and leave tobacco offerings [...]

Roundtrip: 100 m Difficulty: Easy Location:  Hovland, MN Click Here for Google Map. If you’ve been a reader of this site for a while you will know that I love fire towers.    I would have liked to have seen what it was like when they were in active use. This tower was interesting to me [...]

Round-trip: 1 km Difficulty: Easy Location:  Grand Portage, MN Click Here for Google Map This is an easy hike to a 50 foot waterfall.  There is lots of history here.  I have been told that the campsite at the top of the falls and the portage have been used at least since voyageur days. From [...]

Round-Trip: 6km Difficulty: Moderate Location: Grand Marais, MN Click Here for Google Map The Lake Superior Shoreline Loop is one of the rare opportunities available –next to the Lakewalk portion of the SHT –to hike for such a long distance along the north shore of Lake Superior. Cascade River State Park has several other great [...]

Round Trip: 14 km Difficulty: Moderate Location: Grand Marais, MN Click Here for Google Map The Cascade River in the Cascade River State Park flows through a narrow canyon featuring several waterfalls and cascades.  This is a great spot to visit any time of year and it is one of those places that seems to [...]