The Boundary Waters - Our Route for 6 days

For documentation purposes, I thought I should plot our route:


Day 1:  We started at the landing of Sawbill, and traveled north.  We shopped for camp sites as we went along, and found nothing.  We finally ended at camp #917.  We paddled approximately 6 miles.

Day 2:  We left our campsite and swung around the south end of the peninsula, and back up north to our first portage.  This day was 3 portages.  (We skipped 1 by going through the creek of beaver dams).  Cherokee Creek was super nice, and we ended for the day at camp #900.  Rain mid-afternoon and early evening helped cool us down.

Day 3:  We changed camp sites today from #900 on the west to #899 on the east.  This is the super duper awesome rock outcropping camp site.  Later in the day, I took Kiddo #1 on a scenic canoe ride around with the intent to see Sniff Lake.  We went only about 2 miles.

Day 4:  Another layover day.  We did take a little canoe ride over to the portage from Cherokee Lake to Sitka Lake to see the difficulties of hiking over the Laurentian Divide.  It was a fun canoe/hike combo for the day.  This day was only about 2.6 miles of canoeing, and 1 mile of hiking.

Day 5:  We start going back the way we came.  We travel back to Cherokee Creek, and portage and paddle through 4 portages today.  We stop at the first camp site #915.  Today was about 4.2 miles of paddling, and 4.6 miles of portaging (double portaging that is).

Day 6:  The last day, we paddle from our northern campsite on Sawbill all the way south to the landing.  This is only about 4 miles.