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: 100 m Difficulty: Easy Location: Thunder Bay, ON Click Here for Google Map A reader requested the information for Hazelwood Fire Tower so I thought I’d post it here for everyone.  I hadn’t posted it until now because it’s not really hike since you can drive right up to it.  But if you are [...]

Roundtrip:  2 km Difficulty:  Easy Location:  Kakabeka Falls, ON Click here for google map. Located just past Kakabeka Falls the Cedar Falls Conservation Area features a trail that leads through an evergreen forest to Cedar Creek and the falls. This is an easy hike along a well-marked trail that is suitable for all ages.  The [...]