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Description

Put-in: ~1315' Take-out: 1179' Total Drop: 136' (Pre-existing listing.) This is a long (95 miles!) reach of canoe tripping water with relatively little whitewater. Many options for shorter trips exist. Listed trip starts at Hwy 53 (where you'll probably use Lion Springs Wayside Park to access the river upstream of Hwy.53) and ends at Dunlap Island in Cloquet (where there is camping). Scanning the topo maps, we are able to identify only one marked 'rapids', which appears to be road accessable (carry-up, boat down), a bit northeast of Toivola. (See Rapids tab and Map tab.) This rapids is not far from a stretch of marked rapids on the Whitefish River, which could make a reasonable pair of 'hits' for someone in the area. Don't take this wrong . . . we are not saying this is the only rapids on the whole stretch, but that it is the only one _marked on the topos_! There are a number of other areas which appear (on the Google Satellite view) to have rapids.