Our Stories

When Memories Become Miles

  According to Jonathan’s dad, the Rogstad family fell in love with the property in 1919. Multiple generations, siblings, and cousins had over 100 acres in north-central Minnesota to hunt, fish, and camp. They eventually cleared some trees to add a primitive cabin that Jonathan recalls helping build. The structure remains standing today, complete with […]

Superior Partnership

  The Superior National Forest is a 3.9-million-acre mix of boreal forest and water, located in the tip of Minnesota’s Arrowhead Region. It dates back to a proclamation by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 and is administered by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) from five ranger district offices and a supervisors’ office in Duluth. About […]

Identifying NCT Route in Minnesota’s “Big Gap Area”

  The NCTA has partnered with the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) planning organization to help identify NCT route possibilities in two parts of the Arrowhead reroute’s “Big Gap Area.” One of the areas the NCTA Arrowhead Chapter will start with is located north of the existing NCT by CR-61. It contains many iron mining […]

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