Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness occupies over 4,200 square kilometers of northeastern Minnesota along the Canadian border, containing more than 1,000 lakes connected by portage trails. Canoeists navigate the same water routes used for centuries by Ojibwe people and French-Canadian voyageurs, camping on designated sites with a motorized craft ban in most of the wilderness. The region's dark skies — among the least light-polluted in the continental United States east of the Rockies — make it a notable destination for Milky Way and aurora photography.