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Cut off from rest of US, Minnesota resort town builds a 22-mile ice road Passage on the ice road requires a $145 roundtrip permit. Season passes are being sold for $500 to recoup the cost of building and constant plowing. Author: Boyd Huppert Updated: 10:08 PM CST February 1, 2021 ANGLE INLET, Minn. — Paul and Karen Colson live 40 miles north of Warroad, Minnesota. They may as well be on the moon. “Cut off,” Paul says. “Totally, totally.” For the past ...

Modified Jan 21st, 2021 at 9:47 AM Angle Inlet, MN (1-21-21) 30 Miles to Paradise: Ice Road Opens Ice fishing in these parts is a big deal. Enjoyed by both anglers and non-anglers alike, guests typically start their day with a nice breakfast. Right around daybreak, heated specialized ice transportation called bombardiers transport guests from their resort to heated fish houses with the ice holes all drilled out and ready to fish on some of the best walleye waters in the world. Some call it para...

Opening of Northwest Angle Ice Road again on hold, organizer says Organizers had hoped the road would open Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, but that is no longer a possibility. Written By: Brad Dokken | × Plow trucks work on the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road last week on Lake of the Woods. (Photo courtesy of Teri Alsleben, Points North Services) A turn for the worse in ice conditions has delayed the opening of a winter road from the south end of Lake of the Woods to th...

The road begins at Springsteel Resort north of Warroad and follows frozen Lake of the Woods some 22 miles northeast and north to the “Border Cut Trail,” a cut in the trees along the Minnesota-Manitoba border. The 8-mile land trail connects with county roads that take visitors either to Angle Inlet or Youngs Bay, where the ice road to Oak and Flag islands begins. This satellite imagery shows the approximate route the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road follows from Springsteel Resort north of War...

Organizers have said they want a consistent 15 inches of ice at minimum before opening the road to the public. While the thickness minimum is close, a warm snap early this week caused the ice to shift in some areas, which happens with drastic temperature swings. That, in turn, can create cracks, which need time to heal.

The road begins at Springsteel Resort north of Warroad and follows frozen Lake of the Woods some 22 miles northeast and north to the “Border Cut Trail,” a cut in the trees along the Minnesota-Manitoba border. The 8-mile land trail connects with county roads that take visitors either to Angle Inlet or Youngs Bay, where the ice road to Oak and Flag islands begins. This satellite imagery shows the approximate route the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road follows from Springsteel Resort north of War...

Tales from the Northwest Angle: A harrowing trip across the big lake for a wedding, and one of the nations most interesting postal routes Just as snow and rain don’t keep Fred Caravetta from delivering mail to the Northwest Angle, the closure of the U.S.-Canada border and the road to the Angle didn’t keep Janae Krantz-Odendahl from getting married in a place she loves. Written By: Brad Dokken | × Erik Struefert and Janae Krantz-Odendahl of the Twin Cities were a...

Minnesota Town Will Have Most Minutes of Darkness Monday Night Enter your number to get our free mobile app The winter solstice is upon us, and one spot in Minnesota will have the distinction of being the place with the longest night of the year this year. If youre looking for bragging rights for the Land of 10,000 Lakes, this might not be one of the top categories that come to mind, but Minnesota will be home to the place with the longest night of the year this year. Seeing as December 21st is...

How We Survive Winter Dec. 20, 2020 The solstice arrives in the depths of the pandemic. But the season of darkness also offers ancient lessons of hope and renewal. For generations, as the days darkened and the blizzards came, the Anishinaabe people warned of the Windigo. He is the monster of winter, dripping with ice and white with snow, and he is starving, said Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, as she remembered the story of her ancestors. He is a human turned c...

A tale of two lakes: Tourism flourishes on south shore of Lake of the Woods while Northwest Angle struggles with border closure during the COVID-19 pandemic Thanks to the ongoing U.S.-Canada border closure to nonessential travel, getting to the Northwest Angle by road – which requires traveling about 40 miles through Manitoba – hasn’t been an option for anyone but permanent residents and essential workers since March. Written By: Brad Dokken and Ann Bailey | 7:00 am, D...