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Kicking off our 2018 trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), our family entered the BWCA at Entry Point #16, Moose/Portage River. We spent 9 nights camped on Nina Moose, Lac La Croix, Iron and Oyster Lakes before exiting on day 10. We got rained on, paddled against gusty winds, sunned on...

On our 2017 trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) our family entered at Entry Point #48, Meeds Lake. We spent 8 nights camped on Meeds, Omega, Gaskin and Vista Lakes before exiting on Day 9 at Entry Point #47, Lizz Lake. We stuck our feet into mud holes and slipped and fell on slick...

What an awesome trip for delighting in nature's small wonders. Loons swam with their chicks calling loud warnings as eagles swooped down from warm, sunny skies. They called mournful calls as night fell wrapping the lake in a blanket of cool darkness. Frogs croaked. Thousands of tadpoles in...

The BWCA (Boundary Waters Canoe Area) is the kind of magical place that casts a spell over visitors, drawing them back. Our family first visited the BWCA three years ago. We now return each year for our fix of loons, lakes, and love of the wilderness. Each year we add a day or two, and leave...

In the Sylvania Wilderness, blue skies, plentiful wildlife, and the relative lack of 4th of July crowds made the mosquitoes much more tolerable. After a wet Memorial Day in the Sylvania Wilderness, our dry Fourth of July weekend felt great - not a drop of rain, cool nights, and sunny days...

Our trip to the Boundary Waters left us wanting more, so we couldn't let the summer end without another quick canoe trip. We headed to the Sylvania Wilderness, located in Upper Michigan near Watersmeet in the Ottowa National Forest. It offers 50 nice, canoe accessible, wilderness campsites. We...

We paddled from Boundary Waters Entry Point #37 to Amber Lake to camp a few nights - seeing a number of people on the way in to the halfway point, but never seeing another person once we set up our basecamp on Amber Lake. We used Lake Polly as a halfway stopover (about 9 miles) to camp on the...

A wet, buggy canoe trip in the Sylvania Wilderness beats a dry, air-conditioned day in the rat race anytime. So off we paddled, with smiles in our hearts and bug nets on our heads. Located near Watersmeet in Upper Michigan on County Road 535, the Sylvania Wilderness has shorter and less rugged...

Coming soon to Madison, Wisconsin: Canoecopia 2015 March 13 - 15, 2015 Alliant Energy Center 1919 Alliant Energy Way Madison, Wisconsin Show Hours: Friday 4:00 to 9:00 PM Saturday 9:00 to 6:00 Sunday 10:00 to 5:00 http://www.canoecopia.com/canoecopia/page.asp?pgid=1001

Friday night with another long work week behind us and daylight fading fast, we jumped into the car and headed north to car camp at Hartman Creek State Park near Waupaca, Wisconsin. This put us just down the road from Waupaca’s Chain of Lakes, a beautiful spot to paddle. Saturday morning we...

Engineer by day, parent by night, and nature junkie by weekend, I live for the solitude and beauty of wild places. Usually, I'm the orchestrator of my family's outdoor adventures. With his boyhood passion for canoe camping burning full flame, my husband surprised me by orchestrating our family...