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eiger0304 Member
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Going up to North Shore Trail today. Look for a place to drop off. Brother-in-law has a cabin about 4 miles SW of Gooseberry right on 61. Maps I have show trail 267 going from the N.Shore Tr. to Gooseberry with an arm of it splitting off and going a liitle West. Is there a place to park there? I believe there is a little diner located there (don't know the name). Or can a person legally park on the side road anywhere were the trail crosses, off load, then go. I'm almost sure that we cannot ride from the cabin to this trail, eventhough its only about 2 miles away. Trying to get away fom driving to a n. Shore trailhead.
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zac41 Night Shift Deputy 
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Not sure if you want to park anywhere on Hwy 61 and try to unload. That is a really busy stretch of road, and there isn't much for shoulders.
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outlandish AWF Admin 
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That diner might be in Castle Danger? I don't think you can park on the side of the road without being ticketed. The only trailheads I am aware of are Silver Bay/Beaver Bay and Two Harbors, both are quite a distance from your cabin??? Here is a map North Shore West
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Well, here's how it all went. Name of the little diner in Castle Danger is the Rustic Inn. Approx 2 miles from cabin and was able to ditch Hwy 61 to get there. No bridge to cross. From Rustic Inn its about 7 miles to the North Shore Trail. We headed to Finland. Trails were kind of rough. About half way to Finland we passed the groomer and the ride got a lot better. Got a burger at Our Place in Finland (pretty good) and gased up. We were going to try and make to Grand Marais on the NST but trail was so bad past Finland we almost turned around. But then the gates to heaven opened up to something called the Tomahawk Trail. HOLY COW!! what a beautiful trail. Rode it the Trestle Stop were we stopped for a little break. Then we followed the trail to Isabelle, gased up ($3.00 a gal), then took a short little jant to the Knotty Pine Inn. We topped off one time before we made the trek back to the cabin ($3.15). We did this because we new it would be close. None of has ever riddin' up there before and did not know if the was anything along the way. Good thing we did. (I'll get back to that). After we left the Knotty Pine Inn we found another gate through heaven. It was called the Yukon Trail. Once again HOLY COW!! Rode this all the way back to the NST. What a blast. Had to back track several miles to Gooseberry Trail which would take us to the Rustic Inn. Right when turn off the NST one of snowmobiles runs out of gas. We all look a tanks eveyone is on "E". I can see the plastic bottom of my tank and we had about 9 miles to go. Rest of made it back with one sled in tow. To sum it all up: We put on 170 miles. 2 sets of fouled out plugs, 1 broken belt, 1 sled running out gas at the end. Not bad since my snowmobile was the newest one of the five. Its a '96 Arctic Cat 580 EXT. Oldest one was '89 Indy 400. By the way that was Tuesday I'll tell ya about Wed. tomorrow.
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outlandish AWF Admin
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cool, glad to hear you had fun....
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zac41 Night Shift Deputy
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Rode the Yukon last year, and I was impressed. The nice thing there is you don't run into an outrageous number of other sleds. A guy I work with just got back from the U.P. and said the trails were good for about the first four hours and then just got beat up. He said he encountered thousands of other sleds along with some pretty scary riders that almost put him into the pucker brush a few times. We have always gone up the north shore before we went to the U.P. much closer, close to as much snow, no out of state trail fee's, and a lot less idiots.
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eiger0304 Member
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Part 2 Wed. morning got up, a little sore, loaded up machines. Drove to NST lot just norh of Two Harbors. Headed backup the Yukon trail till we got to the Brimsom Trail. Another great trail. We just made the loop back to the lot (kept making left turns). Still put about 70 miles. Stopped a the bar in Brimsom, gas was $3.40 a gallon. After talking to some people in the bar, I kind of got the low down on the gas price. Alot of the little one pump gas station/bars only have 1000 gallon storage tanks, its tough to get people to deliver the fuel. So they pay alot for fuel delivery. How much more who knows. Why is brimsom 40 cents more a gallon than Isabella? But none the less we had a great time. Here's the million dollar question. With the passing of the bill that allows you to ride in the forest north of Hwy 2. can you ATV on these same trails??? I know alot of these trails had to be on forest roads. I realize you go across some swamps and private land and you cannot ride there. I guess what i'm getting at is would be nice to see a lot more designated ATV trails.
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outlandish AWF Admin
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would be nice to see a lot more designated ATV trails Yes it would but like you said private land, swamps etc......it is a lot tougher to get the ATV trails OK'd
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