With the piles of snow slowly disappearing and the sun rising higher into the sky every day, it is only a matter of time before Clearwater Lake is open and free of ice. Every year the staff plays a fun game where we guess the date the ice will be completely gone. This spring we thought we’d open the contest up to all our blog...
Conratulations to Grand Marais! This month our small town (home to only about 1,300 people) was the number 1 spot on CNN’s “Coolest Small Towns in America” list for 2015. At Clearwater Historic Lodge & Canoe Outfitters, you can have the best of both worlds. There are 32 beautiful miles of Gunflint Trail between us and the the “big...
As an adult there is not much that compares to the excitement of a forecast for aurora borealis that contains the phrase “strongest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle. This storm is underway now.” Though forecasts for record breaking blizzards still make me tingle a bit, there is no earth weather forecasts that come close to the level of giddiness...
With our upcoming centennial season fast approaching we want to offer the opportunity for past, present and future guests to honor a loved one, or celebrate and commemorate family memories at Clearwater with a Centennial Walkway paver. These bricks will be used to fill in the existing walkway from the parking lot to the front door of the lodge. All...
This year Clearwater Historic Lodge & Canoe Outfitters celebrates 100 years of helping people enjoy the remarkable Boundary Waters near Grand Marais, MN! The world has changed a lot since Charlie and Petra Boostrom first founded the lodge, and we’ve been working hard to stay with the times….without losing our Northwoods roots. We’re happy to announce our new website, which we think...
This was originally posted to our blog on July 5, 2008. Enjoy! My new found love of solo hiking lead me back to the trail this last week. I decided I needed to see more of the border route trail and put in at the South Lake trail, which runs north for about 3 miles before it intersects with the...
We have a new blog at Clearwater Historic Lodge and Canoe Outfitters and thought it might be a cool idea to start by posting some of our old favorites from the past 10 years of the old blog. Enjoy. In knowing that I am a paddler at heart, the idea of solo hiking was always an afterthought. After three years...
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