I washed my muddy sneakers the day I got home from an early September canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As they dried on the sunny sill of my downtown Minneapolis condo, the ...

ELY -- Campers and canoeists may soon pay more to visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Superior National Forest, which manages the 1.1 million-acre wilderness in northeastern Minnesota ...

The U.S. Forest Service on Saturday closed the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota as the largest active wildfire in the state threatens the 1-million-acre property ...

The debate about the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is once again heating up. Attempts to federally mediate a solution to this 33-year-old conflict have failed. A settlement can only come from ...

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) visitors are preparing for summer visits and planned trips now that the calendar has flipped to June. Some visitors are occasional anglers, utilizing ...

The thing that makes the Boundary Waters truly egalitarian, however, is that it doesn't cost anything to be there, beyond the permit. And trips needn't be backbreaking treks deep into the interior.

I was in my early 20s when my buddy and I launched our canoe into Seagull Lake off the Gunflint Trail — my first trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Though that adventure was 40 years ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FINLAND, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Forest ...