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Merritt Lake is right by the Canfield Portage, and camping is available at Hinsdale Island Campground. This lake is so wonderful. A lake close by is Lake Alf, and going for a hike along the Beatty Portage will let you absorb the natural beauty of this area. From a rain point of view Merritt Lake is a quite common spot; the month with most of the rain is June; February is the month with the least moisture. Dry warm beds await you at Elbow Lake Lodge, and a
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You just can't imagine the amount of outdoors cool stuff the area close to Merritt Lake has to offer. Oriniack Lake is a nearby lake that you could explore; get yourself into a kayak and hit Vermilion River. This lake is so wonderful. A fine place to camp here at Merritt Lake is Fortune Bay Resort - Casino - RV Park; the snow is great at Giants Ridge.
If you need a place to stay Lodge At Giants Ridge is a | |
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nice choice, and hiking along the Taconite Trail is perfect fun. At Merritt Lake during the summertime months highs are in the 70's. Once the sun is down it plunges down to the 40's. High temperatures during the wintertime are normally in the 10's, and night lows in the-20's for Merritt Lake.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 47.97472
Longitude: -92.36028
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Vermilion River, St. Louis CountyCounty, 8 miles away
Class II-III - 5.5 miles long (Vermilion Dam to Twomile Creek) |
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Vermilion River, St. Louis CountyCounty, 9 miles away
Class II-IV - 1.5 miles long (Eightmile Creek to Cty 24) |
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Vermilion River, St. Louis CountyCounty, 18 miles away
Class II-IV - 4 miles long (FS491 to CR24) |
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Lake Alf, St. Louis CountyCounty, 2 miles away |
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Echo Lake
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...hing this lake walleyes and northern were caught in the dozens every day. But, they werent trophy fish but it was fun catching a stringer everyday. Now the lake is producing the same ''hammerhandle'' pike and ''dinner'' size walleye as the past as well as many trophies of both species. I believe the bluegills that research states accidently got into the lake are providing much more feed for this lake. But the funny thing is the gills are getting big too. So i think to my self, what is the true feeder fish? Every lake has a true feeder fish that never really gets big right? Well that fish is the perch unfortunatly. Back in the 70's the lake had jumbo perch, they were hard to find, you only caught a couple but they made anything out of lake michigan look like a minnow. I did catch one jumbo though, and even that one was on the small side of a true jumbo but there still a few ''smart ones'' left i guess you could say. Echo lake has lots of stumps,logs, boulders and such so you will get stuck. If you dont get stuck then you arent fishing the lake right. As far as that is concerned that i... |
Giants Ridge
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Giant's Ridge is my favorite local ski hill. I know all the people that work there and ski there.... |
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