Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center's Dark Sky Committee will be hosting its first-ever winter event, "Exploring the Night Skies of the Gunflint Trail". A fun, educational evening includes presentations and workshops on night-sky observation and photography techniques. This family-friendly event will be at the G.T.V.F.D. Schaap Community Center (7401 Gunflint Trail) Saturday, February 18th, 7:00 […]

This Saturday, April 22, at 8 PM - Gunflint Lodge and Outfitters are offering a guided night hike with Chik-Wauk Naturalist Emma Adams. There is a lot to celebrate! Everyone is welcome to join in for International Dark Sky Week, Earth Day, and witness the stunning Lyrids meteor shower!   The guided hike will take […]

The Gunflint Trail Historical Society is pleased to announce the launch of a new Artist in Residency Program and the selection of Jack Dant as the first visiting artist. In 2022 a small task force was formed to explore the possibility of “An Artist in Residency Program on the Gunflint Trail” inspired by similar programming […]

Painter of the North Sunday, June 18 - Join Neil Sherman as he presents his slideshow that has captured his 16 years of Plein Air Painting on the Gunflint Trail. What I strive to capture in my paintings is the feeling of a particular day. Each day is different, especially on the north shore of […]

The BWCAW is a place known and loved by many. The connection that many people feel to the waters and forests of this Border Lakes wilderness help to make it the perfect place to help us contemplate the long-term relationships among people and fire in the Great Lakes Region, and how notions of Wilderness as […]

Sam, will share the story that leads to his writing “Following My Spirit Home”, his stories on Ojibwe Culture, Nature Conservation, storytelling, and painting. Sam Zimmerman began to participate in juried and solo exhibitions in 2000 after immediately receiving his BFA in Studio Art from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His painting became a part-time […]

 Timothy Cochrane is the author of A Good Boat Speaks for Itself, Minong – The Good Place: Ojibwe and Isle Royale, and Gichi Bitobig, Grand Maris. He has worked as a fire lookout, backcountry ranger, historical, anthropologist, and superintendent for the National Park Service in Minnesota, Alaska, and at Isle Royales, Michigan. Tim has had […]

It has been 21 years since Lonnie Dupre and John Hoelscher completed the first and only circumnavigation of Greenland; a 6,500-mile journey all non-motorized by dog team and kayak. In 2022 Dupre went back to NW Greenland to document through film the Polar Inuit culture. Traveling from village to village by dog team, Dupre re-connected […]

University of Minnesota Duluth in partnership with the Gunflint Trail Historical Society is bringing this experience to the end of the Gunflint Trail!! The UMD is on a journey to celebrate and preserve Northeast Minnesota’s dark sky window to the universe. The journey will begin in Duluth on the 7th at the UMD planetarium and […]

Mark Neuzil is a professor of journalism at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books, almost all with environmental themes. A former wilderness guide and summer park ranger, he is currently working on a collective biography of nature writers with a Minnesota connection. Ancient […]

Mark Morgen and his wife Carol moved to the Grand Marais area 6 years ago after retiring from a 37-year career as an engineer for 3M Company. He has built over 20 canoes and kayaks, as well as one sailboat. The next current project will probably be a tandem sea kayak. He enjoys camping and […]

Meet Sherry Abts, the "Ely Loon Ranger" and Minnesota DNR Loon Watcher Survey volunteer with a lifelong passion for loons. Thirty-five years as a public educator has taught Sherry how to get people excited and interested in the natural world around them. Sherry's passion for loons began in 1993 when she volunteered with the Earth […]