This area was set aside in 1926 to preserve its primitive character and made a part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1964 with subsequent legislation in 1978. Visitor travel is managed by a visitor distribution system via mandatory entry quota and entry points. Within its boundaries are 2,000 designated campsites, 1,200 miles of canoe routes, 12 hiking trails, and a spectacular view of the night sky. It is over 1 million acres in size and filled with rocky cliffs and crags, canyons, towering rock formations, and thousands of lakes and streams with rocky shores and sandy beaches surrounded by forests.
Students travel in the tradition of the great polar treks in a land of unique beauty and intense silence. Snow glistens and crunches under cross-country skis and the enthusiastic sled dogs teem with anticipation, ready to cover another day’s distance across the snow-laden woods. In 1964, Congress designated the BWCA as one of the first federally protected wilderness areas in the United States and it remains the largest wilderness east of the Rockies and north of Florida’s Everglades, and is the nation’s most visited wilderness area.Ī majority of those visitations occur in the spring, summer, and fall, however, and the winter in the BWCA is a time for a truly remote winter adventure. More than a million acres of snow-covered forest and frozen lakes lie open for exploration on Voyageur Outward Bound’s winter dog sled and cross country ski expeditions in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). Everything is frozen, quiet, covered in white snow. The lush green forests become silent as winter settles in. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (Winter), Minnesota Temperatures in this area range from 50-85 degrees in the summer, 30-55 degrees in the spring and fall, and remain below freezing most of the winter. This lakeland wilderness is part of the Canadian Shield, a geological formation that comprises portions of the earth’s most ancient exposed rock, some of which is 3 billion years old! In order to travel through the Boundary Waters, the canoe is the perfect tool-paddle across wind-whipped waves on lakes the size of small towns or glide across the glassy surfaces of tiny chains of lakes, all formed by glaciation around 10,000 years ago. Outward Bound students can expect to share the wilderness with the bald eagle, gray wolf, and the loon, a red-eyed, black headed water bird that can swim underwater as long as 20 minutes. Here the trees grow to the lakeshores-a canopy of pine, aspen and birch that thin where the shoreline breaks into rocky cliffs and granite slabs.
This 1.1 million-acre expanse stretches 200 miles along the U.S.-Canadian border, and the rugged maze of pristine lakes and bogs spill into one another over roaring rapids and down quiet, slow-moving streams.
The BWCA remains the largest wilderness east of the Rockies and north of Florida’s Everglades, and is the nation’s most visited wilderness area. In 1964, Congress designated the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) as one of the first federally protected wilderness areas in the United States. The basecamp for the second Outward Bound school founded in the United States is located on the edge of the most spectacular canoe wilderness in North America. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (Summer), Minnesota
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