Join Us for our First EVER
Winter Plein Air Festival!
February 24 - 28, Up the Gunflint Trail!
Exhibit Opens at Gunflint Lodge.
5 pm, Saturday, February 27 & Sunday, February 28 from 10 am - 2 pm
Don’t miss beautiful Winter Landscapes!

The ice covered alder brush and small trees clogging the Banadad Ski Trail from last months storm, and that forced the closing of the trail, has finally been removed. The Banadad is once again open. The re-opening of the trail took nine-four hours of hard-wet-cold hand labor by trail crews.

Groomers have now finished packing the fresh snow and the re-setting of tracks begins today, February 11. It is expected that the track setting of the Banadad will be completed by tomorrow.

According to trail maintenance manager, Ted Young, “the brush that clogged the trail from this storm was by far and away the worst I have ever seen in my twenty-seven years of working on the Banadad. The crews that helped re-open the trails did a great job! Young continued, “I wish to give a special thanks to Jim Morison, Peter Spink, Pete Harris, John and Barbara Bottagar who volunteered their time along with paid trail workers, Jim Raml, Mike and Matt Hendrickson. And thanks to other members of the Banadad Trail Association who, contributed moral support, including support from as far away as New Zealand. The re-opening of the Banadad was truly a team effort.”