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Quetico | Lac La Croix to Darkwater Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 52
Days: 5
Portages: 16
Entry Point: Ranger Station #a (Lac La Croix); #42 (Malligne River)

Quetico | Pickerel Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 56
Days: 6
Portages: 13
Entry Point: Ranger Station #5 (French Lake); #12 (Pickerel Lake)

Quetico | North Into the Heart of Quetico

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 69
Days: 8
Portages: 26
Entry Point: Ranger Station #3 (Prairie Portage); #61

Quetico | Beaverhouse to Wolseley and Back

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 46
Days: 5
Portages: 14
Entry Point: Ranger Station #1 (Beaverhouse Lake); #41 (Threemile Lake)

Quetico | Silver Falls Day Trip

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 12
Days: 1
Portages: 5 (zero if you just go to the falls and back)
Entry Point: Ranger Station #4 (Cache Bay); #73

Alice Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 49
Days: 6
Portages: 27
Entry Point: #37

Pike and Pine Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 33
Days: 4
Portages: 9
Entry Point: #62

Loop through Kekekabic and Little Saganaga

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 40
Days: 6
Portages: 37
Entry Point: #54

Loop East Through Cummings Lake

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 36
Days: 5
Portages: 16
Entry Point: #1 Trout Lake

Loop through Phoebe, Malberg and Louse Creek

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 40
Days: 5
Portages: 38
Entry Point: #38

Loop through Clearwater Lake and Lake One

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 37
Days: 5
Portages: 22
Entry Point: #32

Southern Loop From Snowbank

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 38
Days: 5
Portages: 19
Entry Point: #27

Horse Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 40
Days: 5
Portages: 14
Entry Point: #24

Agnes, Iron, Stuart Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 35
Days: 5
Portages: 22
Entry Point: #16

Stuart River, Iron Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 37
Days: 5
Portages: 19
Entry Point: #19

Meeds, Omega and Winchell Loop

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 28
Days: 4
Portages: 17
Entry Point: #45

Brule to Long Island Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 29
Days: 4
Portages: 17
Entry Point: #41

Iron Lake Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 48
Days: 6
Portages: 27
Entry Point: #23

Minnesota Mountains

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 50
Days: 6
Portages: 14
Entry Point: #60

Eastern Loop through Ensign Lake and Beyond

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 45
Days: 6
Portages: 13
Entry Point: #25

Oyster, Ge-Be-On-E-Quet, La Croix Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 39
Days: 6
Portages: 19
Entry Point: #16

Cherokee, Sawbill, Gillis Lake Voyage

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 62
Days: 7
Portages: 52
Entry Point: #50

Kekekabic Trail

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 41
Days: 4
Entry Point: #74

Border Route Trail

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 68
Days: 7
Entry Point: #81 (west) #82(center) #83 (east)

Sioux-Hustler Trail

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 30
Days: 3
Entry Point: #15

Powow Trail

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 32
Days: 3
Entry Point: #86

Angleworm Trail

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 13
Days: 1
Entry Point: #20

Eagle Mountain Trail

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 7
Days: 1
Entry Point: #79

Snowbank Lake Trail

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 28
Days: 3
Entry Point: #74

Clearwater Lake Loop

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 21
Days: 3
Portages: 13
Entry Point: #84 Snake River

Exploration of Basswood Lake

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 14
Days: 2
Portages: 4
Entry Point: # 24 – Fall Lake

Big Rice Lake

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 11
Days: 2
Portages: 4
Entry Point: #7 - Big Lake

Exploration of Little Vermillion Lake

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 18
Days: 2
Portages: 0
Entry Point: #12 - Little Vermillion Lake

Exploring the Number Chain

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 15
Days: 2
Portages: 4
Entry Point: #30 - Lake One

One-way to Perent Lake

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 21
Days: 2
Portages: 17
Entry Point: # 34 - Island River

Exploration of Alton Lake

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 3+
Days: 2
Portages: 2
Entry Point: #38 – Sawbill Lake

Caribou Lake Weekend

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 11
Days: 2
Portages: 6
Entry Point: # 64

Exploration of Moose Lake

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 3 +
Days: 2
Portages: 0
Entry Point: #25

Wood Lake to Basswood Lake

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 11
Days: 2
Portages: 8
Entry Point: #26

Short Loop through Pine Lake

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 24
Days: 3
Portages: 4
Entry Point: #1 – Trout Lake

Basswood / Wind Lake Loop

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 23
Days: 3
Portages: 3
Entry Point: #25 Moose Lake

Wilder / Fire Lake Trip from Lake One

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 22
Days: 3
Portages: 12
Entry Point: #30 Lake One

Loop through the Kawishiwi River Triangle

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 19
Days: 3
Portages: 12
Entry Point: #33 – Little Gabbro Lake

Exploration of Trout Lake and its neighbors

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 10
Days: 2
Portages: 2
Entry Point: #1 Trout Lake

Loop Through Cherokee Lake

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 23
Days: 3
Portages: 14
Entry Point: #38

Loop through Parent and Disappointment Lakes

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 17
Days: 3
Portages: 13
Entry Point: #27

Kawishiwi River Triangle

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 21
Days: 3
Portages: 8
Entry Point: #31

One-Way to Nina Moose Lake

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 22
Days: 3
Portages: 19
Entry Point: #14

Loop through Seagull and Saganaga Lakes

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 25
Days: 3
Portages: 6
Entry Point: #54

Granite River Journey to Saganaga

Skill Level: Easy
Miles: 22
Days: 3
Portages: 11
Entry Point: #57

Rose Lake Round Trip

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 36
Days: 3
Portages: 8
Entry Point: #58

Meeds, Horseshoe, Gaskin Loop

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 19
Days: 3
Portages: 11
Entry Point: #48

Remote Western Loop to Amoeber Lake

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 30
Days: 4
Portages: 17
Entry Point: #55

Frost River Loop

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 30
Days: 4
Portages: 35
Entry Point: #51

Loop through Banadad, Long Island, and Henson

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 29
Days: 4
Portages: 17
Entry Point: #49

Lac La Croix Express

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 28
Days: 4
Portages: 12
Entry Point: #16

One Way on the South Kawishiwi River

Skill Level: Challenging
Miles: 29
Days: 4
Portages: 14
Entry Point: #35

Cherokee Lake Loop

Skill Level: Intermediate
Miles: 26
Days: 4
Portages: 18
Entry Point: #39

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