Cut off from rest of US, Minnesota resort town builds a 22-mile ice road
Passage on the ice road requires a $145 roundtrip permit. Season passes are being sold for $500 to recoup the cost of building and constant plowing. Author: Boyd Huppert Updated: 10:08 PM CST February 1, 2021
ANGLE INLET, Minn. Paul and Karen Colson live 40 miles north of Warroad, Minnesota.
They may as well be on the moon.
“Cut off,” Paul says. “Totally, totally.”
For the past 10 months, the Minnesota husband and wife have been essentially severed from the rest of the United States.
That’s when Canada, seeking to slow the spread of COVID-19, closed its southern border to all but essential travel.