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By bct | September 23, 2010

Gunflint Trail Fall Plein Air Celebration Sunday, October 3 11 am to 4 pm View Gunflint art work,  meet the artists and enjoy Taste of Fall at participating Lodges. Taste treats include- Walleye chowder, glazed ham, bread pudding, squash pie, salsa pickles, wine and cheese, and more!  Each participating lodge will be displaying art work [...]

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Minnesota’s Bed and Breakfast Introduce State’s First Green Lodging Certifications

By bct | September 21, 2010

The Minnesota Bed and Breakfast Assocation (MBBA) become the first state wide lodging association to develop a green certification program. Entitled. Green Journey the program recognizes member Inns who are making a commitment to be good environmental stewards. Inns participating in the “Green Journey Program” are on a journey to decrease their environmental footprint and [...]

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Taste of the Gunflint

By bct | September 10, 2010

Get a glimpse of Gunflint Trail history and a taste of good eats during A Taste of the Gunflint Trail  on Saturday, September 11 from 11 am to 5 pm. Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center and nine Gunflint Trail businesses will be open for tours during this fundraiser for Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center’s boardwalk [...]

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Artist Wanted for Gunflint Trail Plein Air Summer

By bct | June 24, 2010

Artist Sign-up anytime- From: Tuesday June 15, 2010 Until: Friday, October 15, 2010 The Gunflint Trail’s Plein Air Summer  is open to all artist (painters) who want to participate.- Sign in at anytime during the event at Trail Center Lodge 8am-9pm Mon-Sun. Artist participants will be given a small packet with an ID card, list [...]

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Tree Planting on the Gunflint

By bct | May 10, 2010

The Gunflint’s  Banadad Trail Association, friends and neighbors this spring are planting six hundred red Tree Planting along the Banadad and white pines and 100 white spruce trees in previously logged and “blow-down” areas along the eastern end of the Banadad Ski Trail and around Little Ollie Lake. Some 350 trees went into the ground [...]

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National Website Announces B&Bs New Green Progarm

By bct | May 5, 2010

Reporting for, Green Lodging News, Glenn Hasek, states that Minnesota Bed and Breakfasts Associations recently launch Green Journey is, ” at least the second green lodging certification program in the United States for B&Bs. Oregon also has a program. The committee putting together Green Journey looked at Oregon’s program as well as Wisconsin’s Travel Green [...]

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Innkeeper Conference in Minneapolis sprouts Green Journey and Encouragement to Bed & Breakfast industry

By bct | April 25, 2010

Minneapolis -The Minnesota Bed and Breakfast Association annual conference was held this past weekend in Minneapolis (April 18-20).  The event attended by Bed and Breakfast owners throughout Minnesota. Barbara Young, from Grand Marais’s Poplar Creek Guesthouse B & B and the Association’s President chaired the conference. Highlighting the conference was speakers from as far away [...]

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Gunflint Trail Green Up – May 7 to 9

By bct | March 26, 2010

Join other friends of the Gunflint Trail at the Trail’s annual Green-Up for a weekend of tree planting and tree care. At Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and cabins we plan to plant Red and White Pines seedlings in the Poplar Creek/Little Ollie area and along the Banadad Ski Trail. Please join us! We provide tree [...]

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Volk Ski Lodging Special on the Gunflint

By bct | January 13, 2010

Cook County’s Volk Ski –400 on January 23 Cook County, between the Gunflint Trail’s three Ski systems, the North Shore and Pincushion Trails, has over four hundred kilometers of groomed trails. To highlight these trails, on Saturday January 23 the county is conducting the Volk Ski 400. Each of the county’s’ ski areas are being asked [...]

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Gunflint Trail Designated a National Scenic Byway

By bct | October 16, 2009

Gunflint Trail- The Gunflint Trail receives National Scenic Byway designation on October 16, 2009.   Known for winding its way through the Boundary Waters Wilderness east-west corridor, the Gunflint Trail is a historic roadway, dating back to the 1800’s with origins as a footpath for Native Americans and geological surveyors.  The Gunflint Trail is also known [...]

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