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Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road offers new gateway to winter adventure
With the U.S.-Canada border closed to tourism and other nonessential travel since March, reaching the Northwest Angle by driving through Manitoba isn t an option and won’t be until the border reopens, whenever that might be. That’s where the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road comes into play. Written By: Brad Dokken | ×
Signs greet visitors to the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods County Road 49 at the Minnesota-Manitoba border. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald)
OAK ISLAND, Minn. – The fish weren t exactly jumping out of the holes, but they didn t have to be.
With the U.S.-Canada border closed to tourism and other nonessential travel since March, reaching the Northwest Angle by driving through Manitoba isn't an option and won’t be until the border reopens, whenever that might be. That’s where the Northwest Angle Guest Ice Road comes into play.
TORONTO Separated from the rest of the United States by the closed Canadian border, one community in Minnesota put its northern ingenuity to work to restore its lifeline to the outside world. The so-called Northwest Angle is a geographical oddity associated with the Canada-U.S. border. Officially known as Angle Township, it is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods. This unusual arrangement dates back to pre-Confederation treaties between the U.S. and Great Britain, which used an inaccurate map to determine where the Canada-U.S. border would run. Over the years, the Angle s unique geography has led to at least one secession attempt, as well as an unsuccessful online petition in 2018 to have the U.S. give Canada back the land.