• Kayaking through a sea arch at the Manitou River.
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    Manitou River Kayaking Trip Report

    If a kayaking trip included one arch, one cave and one waterfall, I’d call it a winner. By that definition, the trip from Sugarloaf Cove to the Manitou River on Lake Superior wins the world championship. During the 11 mile round-trip, you will paddle past three arches that you can kayak through and many others above the waterline. You’ll see two postcard worthy waterfalls, paddle past towering palisades, kayak into caves (one with a waterfall falling down over the entrance) and encounter mansions and old fishing buildings. Rock from Keweenawan lava flows and intrusions makes up the shoreline and the presence of glaciers gone shows itself with gouge marks. A…

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    Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness VR Tour

    This page is down until further notice. [ptviewer parameters imagewidth=”1700″ imageheight=”850″ horizon=”425″ hfov=”360″ href=”https://www.paddlinglight.com/pl/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bwca5.jpg” /] Click and move the mouse to pan and tilt. The “Ëœ< >“Ëœ keys zoom. About the BWCA The Boundary Waters Canoe Area preserves as wilderness almost 200 miles of lakes and forestland running along the border of the U.S. and Canada. It reaches from Crane Lake in the Voyageurs National Park to the Pigeon River, which empties to Lake Superior. With over one million acres, over 1000 lakes, 2000 campsites it ranks as the second largest area within the United States’ National Wilderness Preservation system. It is one of two nationally designated canoe wilderness areas…