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.

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, Minn. – Every paddle stroke sprinkled water drops, reflecting the setting sun like sparklers across the black, glacier-carved lake. Just a few hours earlier, I ...

Want to make a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness but you don’t have a crew? The Boundary Waters Advisory Committee invites volunteers to join their crews on multiday trail-clearing ...

DULUTH — It's time to make plans for a summer trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, with permits for this summer going up for sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The number of permits available for ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. (AP) — Every paddle stroke sprinkled water drops, reflecting the setting sun like sparklers across the black, glacier-carved lake. Just a few hours earlier ...

Some Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness paddlers will have to change where they pick up permits for their trips this summer. Two U.S. Forest Service ranger district stations — the Kawishiwi office ...

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 ...

There are a lot of ways to experience the depth of a wild landscape: hiking, horseback riding, biking, off-roading. But none offer the same elegance and simplicity as paddling. Which is fortunate, ...

A man on a solo camping trip has been found dead at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, officials say. Lee Vue via Unsplash A 62-year-old man on a solo camping trip in ...

BOUNDARY WATERS, Minn. — On Friday night, canoeists in the Boundary Water Canoe Area called 911 after locating a capsized canoe and a partly submerged human body on Lake Agnes. Several officials ...