A group of church ladies with no wilderness experience gave the BWCA a try in 1986, and it draws them to this day.

Dispatch No. 6 from Dave and Amy Freemans’ #WildernessYear in the Boundary Waters, sharing lessons from safely canoe-tripping through ice and frozen lakes. Every year in Minnesota there comes a time ...

There are tough portages, and then there are portages like the one Jim Kurz is undertaking. Kurz, 63, is walking from his hometown of Ladysmith, Wis., to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...

Fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) was lights out. I mean amazing. Our crew of six men enjoyed all you can eat fresh caught walleye cooked in a skillet over a wood fire five ...

We are nearly a month in since permits were made available for camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Although what’s the outlook this spring for people wanting to explore the BWCA? The U.S.

Ice-out in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been a drawn-out affair this year. For a while in early April we seemed to experience a weather pattern that alternated between ...

In part three of “Northern Loners,” a closer look at a life spent in solitude (kind of) in the Boundary Waters.