Lake of the Woods Vacation Area Guide

If there is a freshwater angling paradise, Lake of the Woods is it. The multi-species options on the lake are second to none. The scenery is incredible and throughout the year, no matter the season, something is always biting. Walleyes, smallmouth and largemouth bass, northern pike, crappies, lake trout and perch all exist in huge [...]

The yearly trek to the lake is nothing new. People have been traveling to the Lake of the Woods area for over 100 years. For some, the excitement of a northern adventure had been passed down through their family. Others will discover the area on their own and experience it for the first time. Kenora [...]

If you’re like most people, you probably think of wooden bridges as relics from the past-charming in their antiquity as you come upon them on quiet country roads, yet certainly inferior to their modern concrete and steel counterparts. But then there was the Sioux Narrows Bridge… At 210 feet, it was thought to be the [...]

In the summer of 1981 Lake of the Woods cabin owner Mike Meunier found a wood board while cleaning his shore line in Morson. The board was inscribed with the ice in and ice out dates from 1935 to 1964. The origin of the board was never found but Mike believed that it came from [...]

We see them along the highways all around this area. Rocks piled up in different shapes. But what are they? Many of us don’t know what they are and only a handful of us know. Consider yourself as the few that do know. An inuksuk (plural inuksuit) (from the Inuktitut: plural alternatively inukshuk in English [...]

Do you ever stop and think about the people that have influenced your life? What events in your life have redirected your future? That you would find something when you were just a teenager that would change your life course? I would like to introduce you to Ron Mazur, a teacher from Argo High School [...]

WRITER’S NOTE: We’ve all heard them, those apochryphal stories of how the level of Lake of the Woods changed after the building of the dams at the north end. The water went up three feet, nine feet, twelve feet. Meadows became marshes. Mainland became islands. Islands disappeared. Here, we look back and try to literally [...]

For generations many human beings have lived in fear of the forest. Wild animals threatened our early ancestors, and robbers, cutthroats and enemies lurked behind every tree. The woodsman had to rescue Red Riding Hood after she initially met the beast in a woods. Goldilocks took a walk in the woods where she came across [...]

What would you say if I told you that Ontario biologists were developing a new species of fish that combined the best features of many of the most popular species? With a taste that rivaled walleye, the brawling ability of smallmouth bass and the pure good looks of speckled trout. Well, to the best of [...]

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. – John Burroughs On land, water or in the air, Northwestern Ontario is a haven for naturalists of all stripes. [...]