Poplar Creek Guesthouse and Canoe Outfitting

The annual meeting of the Banadad Trail Association (BTA) will be Friday, October 21, 2016 at the Schaap Community Center on the Gunflint Trail. (Next to the Fire Department, close to the Lima Grade intersection). The meeting will be at 5:30 pm and will be followed with a Potluck Dinner; all are welcome. The Banadad …

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Beavers Busy Along the Banadad   This year the beavers have several construction projects underway along the Banadad Ski Trail. The first  a beaver lodge, discovered earlier this month, is located about 2.5 km. in from the trail’s west end and is constructed on and completely blocking the trail. To get around this lodge and …

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Trail maintenance of the Banadad Ski Trail, organized by the Banadad Trail Assocation (BTA), got into high gear this past weekend. On Friday, 8 members of the Northstars Ski Touring Club spent 56 hours clearing the remaining one mile of the Winchell Lake Fire Trail. This trail, most of which is within the BWCA, serves as …

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Help the Banadad Build a Proper Storage-Maintenance Building for the trail’s Snowmobile Groomers through Give to the Max. The Banadad Ski Trail is the longest groomed and tracked ski trail in the BWCA. This beautiful trail is located off the Gunflint Trail, 28 miles from Grand Marais.  The trail is maintained and groom by the Banadad Trail …

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Over the last three weeks we have lost over a foot of our snow. No surprise, during much of this period, the temperature has been well above freezing. While we have had rain; there has not been much snow- only about two inches.  But our ski trail continue to holdout! There still is 13 inches …

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