Backpacking Trails

Section Hiking

Completed Superior Hiking Trail Sections

Link to the Superior Hiking Trail

• Highway 1 (Tettegouche) to Lake Cty Rd 6, and on to Lake County Road 7, 

  • June 1 - 3, 2024

  • MILES [14 miles] - approximate route

  • Hari Vemuri, Praneeth Kolli, Rafael Verdes

• Crosby-Manitou State Park to Caribou Falls State Wayside and Caribou River Wayside to Cook County Road 1

  • May 26 - 28, 2023

  • Approximately 16 miles

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Larry Overton, Rafael Valdes

• Silver Bay (Penn Blvd) to West Kennedy Camp and back to Highway 1

  • October 7 - 9, 2022

  • Mileage 16.57 - including going up Fantasia Overlook

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Hari

• Britton Peak Parking to Lutsen Mountain Parking

  • June 2 - 4, 2022

  • Mileage 16.23 miles - including a day hike up to Oberg Mountain

  • MapMyRun route

  • Solo

• County Road 6 Parking lot (South of Section 13 Camp) to Sonju Lake Road Parking Lot

  • October 1 - 3, 2021

  • Mileage: 15 miles

  • MapMyRun route

  • Solo

• Lake County Road 7 to Crosby-Manitou State Park and on to Crosby-Manitou State Park to Caribou Falls State Wayside

  • May 21 - 22, 2021

  • 11.8 miles + 8 miles, 15.58 miles

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Darin

• Silver Bay to Highway 1, 

  • October 2 - 3, 2020

  • 13.26 miles

  • MapMyRun route

  • Solo

• Highway 1 (Tettegouche) to Lake Cty Rd 6, and on to Lake County Road 7, 

  • May 25 - 27, 2018

  • 14.4 miles

  • Mitchell, Darin, Todd

• Silver Bay to Tettegouche

  • September 14 - 17, 2017

  • 12.21 Miles + 2 miles of day hiking = 14.21 miles

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Todd

• Split Rock State Park to Beaver Bay

  • September 23-25, 2016

  • 12.19 miles

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Mitchell and Todd

• Split Rock River Loop to Christmas Tree Ridge camp

  • June 17-19, 2016

  • 7.49 miles + 4.2 miles = 11.69 miles

  • MapMyRun Route - A

  • MapMyRun Route - B

  • MapMyRun Route - C

  • Mitchell, Matthew and Todd

• St Croix State Forest, 

  • April 17-18, 2015

  • 11.95 miles

  • MapMyRun Route

  • Tromping around in the forest bushwhacking for 12 hours LOL

  • Kent and Todd

  • Inaugural Backpacking Trip Gone Wild

    • Clue 1: don’t hike where the map indicates bog-like conditions

    • Clue 2: stop hiking if trails are not where they should be

    • Clue 3: find another hiking route if the bog-like conditions turn out to be true

    • Clue 4: stop hiking and find new route when the trail ends - don’t assume the trail will “get better” or we will find the trails on the other side of these thorn bushes, thick brush and more big-like conditions

    • Great Advice: hike with great people. We hiked for ten hours through very tough conditions. Each trail dead-end resulting in rethinking the route and backtracking. Throughout we kept our cool and had some great laughs along the way.

• Caribou Trail to Cascade River State Park

  • May 15 - 17, 2015

  • 20.69 miles + 4.62 = 

  • MapMyRun - A

  • MapMyRun - B

  • Solo

• Castle Danger to Gooseberry State Park

  • October 2-4, 2015

  • 12.75 miles

  • MapMyRun route

  • Kent and Todd

Banff National Forest

• Banff National Forest - Sunshine Meadows to Mount Assiniboine, July 23 - 26, 2011

  • 15.83 miles

  • Melissa, Kent and Becky

Other Random Trails

• Devils Cascade 11 miles

• Pow Wow Trail 26 miles

Weekend Hiking

Lake Maria

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/lake_maria/index.html

St Croix

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/st_croix/index.html

Albert Lea - Myre Big Island

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/myre_big_island/index.html

Center City - Wild River

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/wild_river/index.html

Angleworm Lake Trail 13 miles

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=HGM046-025

Eagle Mountain 6.8 miles

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=HGM066-033 

Tettegouche Area Hiking Info

Direct your GPS to go here - then go through the park - along the road there are plenty of amazing places to stop and admire the scenery. This specific spot is an overlook to the city and lake.

If you go further up the lake you may want to hit up Betty's Pies :)

If you are ambitious (have more time) - go here - or - for a great view of the lake with a short hike park here and take the trail that heads to Gooseberry Falls:

Hiking Trail info Castle Danger to Gooseberry Falls and hike up to Wolf Rock - probably about 1/3 of a mile - easy hike:

http://shta.org/trail-section/two-harbors-to-silver-bay/

Park Here:

Up the road a bit is Split Rock river loop - very cool - it is a loop for backpackers but not day hikers so you will want to hike as far as you can and then head back - amazing views along the way:

http://shta.org/trail-section/two-harbors-to-silver-bay/

Park Here:

Tettegouche State Park

For Cascade Falls Park Here

A photo I took was approximately here though the trail isn’t that long so you should be able to find plenty to shoot along the way

For High Falls - which was very active when I was there - park here:

If you are feeling ambitious I would highly recommend hiking up to this point: which is the Bean / Bear Lake overlook

and / or Mount Trudee which is along the same segment of Superior Hiking Trail

It looks like the closest place to park to those areas is in Silver Bay here and you can take the spur up in there