Only a few days remain until what many consider the official start to summer: the fishing opener. While ice conditions ranged ...

A group of Twin Cities canoeists portaged shiny Kevlar canoes toward the landing on Sawbill Lake to start their trip. Sawbill crew member Jessica Hemmer of St. Cloud had just finished a portaging ...

My favorite route is the demanding loop from Sawbill Lake up several creeks and bogs to vast, islet-studded Cherokee Lake, and back down the Temperance River. The 23-mile (37-kilometer ...

Cook County Sheriff’s officials say they responded to a water emergency involving a capsized canoe on Sawbill Lake near the portage to Kelso Lake, which is 25 miles north of Tofte, Minn.

In this 2012 file photo, Bill Hansen, owner of Sawbill Canoe Outfitters, portages between Sawbill Lake and Alton Lake Wednesday, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

Sawbill a special place for Beargrease mushers, volunteers ON THE SAWBILL TRAIL, Minn. - With its canvas tents tucked among the pines of the Superior National Forest, housing travelers from near ...