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This ice road in Minnesota is open to ice fishers, but travelers will need to contribute money toward expensive maintenance costs.

Last year, an icy highway was plowed across Lake of the Woods connecting visitors to resorts cut off by Canada's border closings.

Police were called to the scene at 2pm today

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...