Canoe Camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota

<body> <h1> <a href="../canoecamping.html">Canoe camping</a> in the <a href="BoundaryWaters.html" target="_top">Boundary Waters Canoe Area</a> Wilderness<br> part of the Superior National Forest in Minnesota </h1> <p><b><noscript><font size="5">The <a href="BoundaryWaters.html">Boundary Waters</a> Canoe Area <img src="bwcaw.gif" alt="BWCAW" border="0" vspace="3"> Wilderness<font color="#000000"> </font></font> </noscript> </b> <font size="5"><br> The US Forest Service began using the name<b> </b>"The Boundary Waters Canoe Area" in place of "The Superior Roadless Areas" in 1958. The "W" in <a href="BoundaryWaters.html">BWCAW</a> came along in 1978 when Jimmy Carter signed <nobr> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <noscript> P.L. 95-495 </noscript> </nobr> into law. Battles over that "W" (wilderness status) for the <a href="BoundaryWaters.html">Boundary Waters Canoe Area</a> continue to this day. Few people call it the BWCAW. Usually it's the <a href="BoundaryWaters.html">Boundary Waters</a> or the <a href="BoundaryWaters.html">BWCA.</a> People choose to forget that "W" at the end. WHY? Perhaps it's because you can still carry a cooler from your cabin or resort to your motor boat and fish parts of the Boundary Waters planning to fill that cooler with the fish you caught on a bobber 'n minnow. You can't do that in <a href="../quetico/Quetico.html"><b>Quetico</b></a>.<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><noscript></noscript></b></font></font> </p> <p><font size="5"> For those willing to portage a canoe, supplies and other camping gear; latrines, campfire grates and the BWCA's close proximity to life's modern conveniences seem to make all the difference in the world. Those looking for solitude need only consider the Boundary Waters sees five times as many visitors as <a href="../quetico/Quetico.html#quetico"><b>Quetico</b></a> in a given year. That ratio is surprising, considering each roughly covers a similar 1.1 million acres of lake studded boreal forest. Then again it might be the simple fact that using minnows is allowed when fishing in the BWCA.</font></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="+1">Virtual canoe camping in the Boundary Waters & <a href="../quetico/Quetico.html">Quetico Park</a><br> <a href="../index.html">QuietJourney.com</a></font></b></p> <h1 align="center"> </h1> </body>