Manitou Rapids Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/20/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This wayside and public water access had been closed for several years, but now has been reopened and upgraded. Public access to the Rainy River is available for canoes and shore fishing. The boat ramp is accessible only on foot.

Original Inhabitants and Industry
Ojibwe Indians arrived on the shores of these pine-rimmed waters in the 1400s and built a life around the lake sturgeon. Just as the prairie tribes relied on bison, the Ojibwe depended on lake sturgeon for meat, skin, oil, and other necessities, such as a fixative derived by boiling the cartilaginous spine. The Ojibwe mixed this glue with red ochre to create a durable paint still visible in pictographs along the Minnesota-Ontario border waters.

Minnesota State Highway 11 is part of the Waters of the Dancing Sky Scenic Byway which tracks the Minnesota-Canada border for nearly half of it's length. As the routes name suggests, this far northern byway offers nighttime visitors an excellent chance of seeing the magnificent Aurora Borealis, better known as Northern Lights. The route touches the shore of the vast Lake of the Woods, and ends at Rainy Lake, another huge border lake, one of many that make up Minnesota's water-based Voyageurs National Park.


This cache was placed by a member of the
Minnesota Geocaching Association

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