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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 10 months, the Minnesota husband and wife have been essentially severed from the rest of the United ...

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 paradise! During a normal winter season, thousands would have made memories from a fish house and enjoye...

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 the Northwest Angle. Organizers had hoped the road, which begins at Springsteel Resort north of Warroa...

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 Young's 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 Warroad, Minn., to the Northwest Angle. Despite the recent warm weather, ice road conditions are at th...

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.