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 [...]

Roundtrip:  4 km Difficulty:  Easy Location:  Silver Bay, MN Click Here for Google Map Black Beach seems like a secret place.  It is located below Silver Bay, MN  on the city access road and there are actually 3 beaches here.  I’m sure it is a very popular spot for locals, but to a tourist it [...]

Roundtrip: 2 km Difficulty: Easy Location:  Grand Marais, MN Click here for Google Map The Sweethearts’ Bluff Nature Area is located right in the town of Grand Marais. The trail starts at the far west end of the city campground at the bottom of the sliding hill. The hike is about 2km round trip.  There [...]

Roundtrip:  5km Difficulty: Moderate Location: Grand Portage, MN Click here for Google Map. This is a fairly strenuous hike to the top of Mount Josephine where you will have views of Lake Superior, Wauswaugoning Bay, Pigeon Point, Isle Royale, and the Susie Islands. Mount Josephine is one of the peaks in the Sawtooth Mountains of [...]