From gorgeous lakes to ancient pictographs to thriving Indigenous communities, here’s what travelers can see on this once-in-a-lifetime journey
Still, Ford raised more than $7,000 for the nonprofit. The money will be used for kids from diverse backgrounds to take a week-long camping trip in the iconic destination.
, which has provided logistics and other support for paddlers attempting the Border Route. “It’s a trip you have to grow into.”It’s a badge of honor to complete the Border Route. Attempting it offers the chance to understand the area’s history and its original inhabitants, whose descendants still live in northern Minnesota.
“The whole place is still their land,” says Ty Olson, an American filmmaker who completed a winter Border Route crossing in March 2021 “to reckon with what it means to be a white settler.” The highlight on his 27-day journey was serendipitously meeting a trio of snowmobilers from the Lac La Croix First Nation, a remote settlement of a few hundred Ojibwe , across the border in Canada.
On Lac La Croix, near a high bluff known as Warrior Hill on the Canadian shoreline, there are dozens of handprints and animal figures. A bull moose with a big rack stained in red ochre is painted on a cliff face that drops dramatically into the water.
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