Lee Foster, Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B’s birding guide- Darrell and Kay Phillips, from the Chicago area. had booked a birding package Gunflint Trail’s Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and were looking to add to their birding life lists. I told them that great birding was to be had right here on the B&B property and that [...]
April Fools Day brought 12 – 14 inches of heavy wet snow to the Gunflint Trail’s Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and along the Banadad Ski Trail. On the morning of the first with guests planning to leave for home the roads and driveways into the B&B’s two rental cabins had to be cleared. Plowing began [...]
People, Trees, and Community — Coming Together for a Better Future
Grand Marais, MN The second annual Gunflint Green Up takes place May 1-2 at various locations along the Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway in northeastern Minnesota. All planting and release sites are located within the Superior National Forest, in the area affected by the [...]
Skiing here at Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B does not end just because the calender says it is Spring. Some of the best skiing of the season is yet to come. In a recent article by New Hampshire ski writer, Roger Lohr, he states, “It happens every year – winter wanes and spring blooms with a [...]
By bct | December 29, 2008
Gunflint Trail-With the temperature hovering above freezing on December 27, the ski conditions on the Banadad Ski Trail were not great, as Erik and Karl Hoeg became the first skier to complete the entire 31 kilometer Banadad non-stop this winter. The two boys time was about 4 hours. They both are very good skiers and [...]
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By bct | December 15, 2008
Grand Marais, MN- The cross-country skiing season has begun along Minnesota’s famed Gunflint Trail as the snow piles up- over nine new inches of snow fell yesterday. More is expected this week. With yesterday snowfall, area B&B and lodge owners along the Gunflint report eighteen to twenty inches of snow now on the ground. [...]
By bct | November 28, 2008
Last night, Thanksgiving, another two inches plus of snow fell along the Gunflint Trail. With the inch of snow from the day before at
Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B we now a bit over three inches on the ground. Not quite enough for skiing but we are getting there! More snow is expected over the next two [...]
By bct | October 30, 2008
According to Ted Young co-owner of Poplar Creek Guesthouse B&B and Banadad Trail Coordinator, “opening the 39.8 kilometers of the Banadad Ski Trail System is no easy undertaking. Twenty-seven Kilometers of the trail system are located within the BWCA where only hand tools can be used to cut the summers accumulation of brush and down [...]
By admin | September 14, 2008
See the Fall Colors by day along the edge of the Boundary waters while spending your nights in secluded B&B’s in Ely and the Gunflint Trail. Your first two nights are at Ely’s Blue Heron Bed and Breakfast, located on South Farm Lake at the western gateway to the Boundary Waters. Canoe and hike [...]
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