Rescue crews were dispatched to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Sunday morning, October 6, after they received the report of a capsized canoe on Big Shell Lake. The Minnesota State Patrol and ...

Dave and Amy Freeman return to their 19-foot Wenonah Itasca canoe to attempt an amphibious ice-to-lake transit while still dealing with wild weather. Ice-out in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

A canoeist has died after their boat capsized on Iron Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, according to the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office. Officials say that a U.S. Forest Service called 911 ...

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 ...

The canoeist whose body was recovered in Iron Lake on Saturday, May 10 has been identified as 62-year-old Saint Louis Park resident Robert Sydney James. Previous versions of the story: The Sheriff’s ...

The surge to book a Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) permit was intense again this year, even briefly bogging down the government’s reservation system after bookings went live Jan. 29.

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 ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. — It was a sunset that campers dream of: perfect shades of red, orange and purple over a glassy wilderness lake. I could only glance at it over my left ...

A man was found dead in the Boundary Waters Canoeing Area Friday evening, according to a news release from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office. Canoeists called 911 around 5 p.m. Friday and reported ...

The body of a canoeist was recovered from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday at around 2:17 p.m., U.S. Forest Service employees reported to 911 that they found a ...