Best Sights to See at Voyageurs National Park, Paperback

Imagine a place where you can traipse beside massive ice age lakes and across some of the oldest known rocks on the planet, where you can hike through green boreal forests during the day and stare at the northern lights dancing against a velvet black sky at night, where you can watch moose graze in ponds and bald eagles soar overhead while gray wolves howl in the distance. The place is real: It's called Voyageurs National Park.

But with the national park's incredible size of 370 square miles, how can you ensure that you see its main sights when vacationing or driving through? That's what Best Sights to See at Voyageurs National Park answers. In this volume, we've listed the top 10 most popular sights and detail the top day hiking trails to best experience them. Also included are nearby trails in Minnesota's Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area.

This book includes TWO BONUS SECTIONS: "Day Hiking Primer" AND "National Parks Primer."

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Rob Bignell is a long-time hiker, editor, and author of the popular "Best Sights to See," "Hikes with Tykes," "Headin' to the Cabin," and "Hittin' the Trail" guidebooks and several other titles. He and his son Kieran have been hiking together for the past decade. Rob has served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard and taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin. His newspaper work has won several national and state journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which he served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin's Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Rob and Kieran live in Wisconsin.