High adventure canoe trips into the Boundary Waters have been a specialty of North Country Canoe Outfitters for over 30 years. A high adventure canoe trip is a challenging outdoor experience. Hundreds of Boy Scouts and Venture Crewmembers enjoy a unique Boundary Waters experience in northern Minnesota each summer. We individually and uniquely customize each high adventure canoe trip to your group’s expectations, ensuring your participants are able to enjoy their trip for their own reasons for coming. A true five to twelve day high adventure is the best way to explore areas of the border lakes region seldom seen by most paddlers, by getting deeper into the wilderness.
Boy Scout Troops, Explorer Scout Posts, and Venture Crews have been paddling on canoe trips through the Boundary Waters and Quetico Park for over eighty years. It’s on a high adventure canoe trip where Be Prepared can actually be put to the test. These adventures are what Scouting is all about. The pre-trip preparation pays off by doing, versus just dreaming. Subsequently, they have an opportunity to experience untouched wilderness just as untouched as it was for early “native Americans”, and the French and English trappers and voyageurs. This is the real deal; not just a troop meeting topic or a week at the council’s summer camp.
A day on a High Adventure canoe trip
through the Boundary Waters and Quetico Park
A typical High Adventure canoe trip through the Boundary Waters includes travel days of six to ten miles depending on the group’s abilities and selected canoe route. A seven day canoe trip might include four or five days of moving from one campsite to the next, and two or there days for fishing, and exploring.
Picture a day on a high adventure canoe trip: hearing loons wail at dawn; eating pancakes with fresh-picked; spotting mink, muskrats, otters and beavers that call these lakes “home”; portaging canoes and packs as you travel from one lake to the next; fishing for scrappy smallmouth bass and delicious walleye; watching the sun set while finishing dinner; reliving the day and planning for tomorrow; watching your campfire turn to embers; and lastly listening to the waves on the shoreline as you drift off to sleep .
About the Boundary Waters / Quetico Wilderness
THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS
Congress protects the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) in 1978 with the Wilderness Act. As a result, over 1,500 miles of canoe routes, nearly 2,200 designated campsites, and more than 1,000 lakes and streams which have changed little since the glaciers melted are waiting for you.
Boundary Waters Wilderness extends 50 miles along the US / Canadian Border. It covers the northern portion of the Superior National.
QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK
Covering over 4,800 square kilometers is the Canadian half of our wilderness . Quetico Park is the second largest Provincial Park in Northwestern Ontario. First set aside 1913, it was not, however, a protected area. Subsequently, logging, mining, commercial fishing, and trapping still continued into the 1960s.
To sum your High Adventure Canoe Trip opportunities
As our campfire fades away
A High Adventure canoe trip into the Boundary Waters offers Boy Scout troop members the largest lakeland wilderness in the world. The trip routes starting from our lakeside base are so remote bald eagles and moose abound. Just as your Scouts will be doing, the early Native Americans paddled these same lakes. Your crew has the opportunity to see the ancient pictographs they left behind on the rock cliffs. This is the land where the French-Canadian voyageurs traded for beaver pelts with the native populations, treking with their canoes heavily laden with furs.
North Country Canoe Outfitters is here to facilitate your troop’s high adventure canoe trip experience in the Boundary Waters. While adhering to all U.S. Federal, and Canadian Provincial rules and guidelines, as well as our own safety practices, you, the unit leadership, have as much flexibility as possible.
- You determine your when to start your trip.
- You determine the duration of your trip.
- You determine what your participants goals are for the trip:
50-miles, fishing, advancement, etc. - You determine what physical standards and Scouting skills you want your participants to have:
age, health, mastery of Scoutcraft, and team spirit.
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