when people hear you've been to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, they sometimes ask what lakes you paddled or what fish you caught, but they always ask about one thing: portages.

BOUNDARY WATERS — The famed Stairway Portage got a makeover this summer when the steep, wooden steps were replaced with native stone. The portage, one of the busiest in the million-acre federal ...

I’ve done a decent amount of canoeing — a few BWCA day trips, a half-dozen whitewater rides, some with my dad, on Wisconsin’s famed Brule River. But this was my first paddle-and portage ...

It includes all lands, waters, trails, portages, campsite, canoe routes and Wilderness entry points in the BWCA. All overnight paddle, day use and motorized day use is cancelled. The Forest ...