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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.

Starting in September 2020, each month through July 2021 was the driest on record for the northern Red River Valley, and for much of North Dakota and northern central Minnesota, according to records going back to 1885.

Life for resort owners and other businesses on Minnesota's Northwest Angle has been especially challenging since March 2020, when the U.S.-Canada border closed to nonessential travel in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation is only marginally better this year.

Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road on Lake of the Woods closes for the season A total of 966 passes were sold to use the road, according to the Facebook post. Partners put in 675 hours of plowing and spent $130,000 in building and maintaining the road, in addition to hundreds of volunteer hours handling other aspects of the project. Written By: Brad Dokken | × A pickup towing a snowmobile on a single-place trailer crosses the bridge over a pressure ridge Friday, Jan. 29, on the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road south of Stony Point. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Hera...