Hospitality Awaits You
A pioneer spirit and warm, friendly northwoods hospitality await you at every stop on the Gunflint Trail — lodges, cabins, B&Bs, campgrounds, canoe outfitters, and restaurants, all unique family-owned and operated places of character and tradition.
You will be warmly welcomed by people who have a love and knowledge of the north woods and waters, and an eagerness to share the beauty, wildlife and four-season recreational opportunities with you.
Along with access to more remote areas, your hosts strive to provide the comforts of modern services and facilities you want for a relaxing vacation. Soothe yourself in a hot tub or sauna, enjoy gourmet meals, relax on your dock, or curl up by a cozy fireplace.
We all romanticize about the quaint, little lodge in the woods. But on the Gunflint Trail, it’s real. The log lodge, the grand resort, the shimmering lake, and a million acres of pristine Minnesota forest.
Just pull up a chair by the fireplace, soak up the sun on the dock, or treat yourself to a sauna in the snow—your warm and welcoming hosts will make sure you won’t ever want to go home.
You’re cooped up in the house, the car and the cube at work, and you just need to separate yourself from it all. Nothing does the trick like a wall of 18-inch-thick Minnesota pine. Pick a cabin on a lake, a cabin in the woods, or a cabin with the best of both.
A bed and breakfast inn on the Gunflint Trail comes closer to nature than most folks will ever get, but with down-filled beds, roaring fireplaces, hot tubs and hosts who’ll fix you a lumberjack breakfast, a B&B is as cushy as it gets up here in the woods.
You leave work and drive on up to the Gunflint, and you’re probably not going to get there until late. And since you don’t want to enter the Boundary Waters in the dark, you need a place to stay.
That’s why so many outfitters have bunkhouses.
Bunkhouses provide a perfectly rustic way to spend the first night of your trip (you just get up and go the next morning) and a relaxing way to spend the last night of your trip (you’ll need a moment to reacquaint yourself with society).
