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1960 Map of Devil Track Lake

Name: 1960 Topographic Map of Devil Track Lake
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1962
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1962

About this map

Devil Track Lake serves as the central anchor of this 1960s landscape, illustrating the intersection of recreation and aviation in the North Woods. The shoreline features the Devil Lake Campground on its northern bank, while the eastern edge highlights the regional infrastructure of the Grand Marais-Devil Track Airport and the Sky Port Seaplane Base. These features point to a mid-century era when the wilderness was increasingly accessible to travelers and pilots.

The surrounding terrain is defined by the Superior National Forest and Minnesota State Forest, showing a complex hydrology of smaller basins like Pendant Lake, Pocket Lake, and Digit Lake. To the south, the landscape rises toward Murphy Mountain and the striking Sawteeth Bluff near the Falls River. This survey captures the wilderness character of Cook County, from the remote Junco Lake in the north to the industrial traces of a Gravel Pit along the Little Devil Track River.