Superior hiking trail – Grand Marais, MN

ByTravis Nelson

It’s hard to believe, but I’m almost done with this trail!  Only 50 more miles to go until I hit the northern terminus (the trail doesn’t actually go all the way to Canada, it stops about a tenth of a mile from the border.  Why?  Who knows…)

So far the trail has been a lovely hike through warm/humid/buggy forests, with the occasional climb up a rock and a nice view.  The hike has been good, except for 1 day of decent rain, but I just so happened to be near tettegouche state park with their amazing visitors center (complete with places to sit, wifi, and a little coffee bar, what more do you need?!?).  So I made the executive decision to NOT slog all day in the rain and instead sit in that visitor center and watch YouTube videos for the entire day.  It was 100% the right decision 🙃

Tettegouche state park
The foggy day *after* the rainy day.  I always do love me some foggy hiking days, they are simply the best 🥰
Lilly’s island. It’s a cute little place to stop for a few minutes
Hunter’s rock and the view of some lake, I wanna say lake Agnes?  Could be wrong, there were a lot of lakes in this area
One of my favorite parts of this trail are these rivers!  They carve these impressive gorges out of the rock and just aren’t something I expected to find in MN!
Do you enjoy steep (but relatively short) climbs up to a big rock to get a view of a seemingly neverending expanse of trees?  Then the SHT might just be the trail for you!
All thru hikers will recognize this!  Normally, this is what we call “trail magic” a cooler parked near a road filled with cold sodas, fruit, snacks, etc – all to help make a tired, hungry hiker’s day a little bit better.  The sad part of this photo is that this cooler was not in fact trail magic, but was instead a cooler with a broken wheel that someone abandoned on their way to a campsite (it was filled with water bottles, uncooked bacon, etc, and was clearly someone’s camp food).  That’s the saddest day ever when the excitement of trail magic turns into utter disappointment.

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