2016 Map of The Cascades

About this map

Pigeon River serves as the international boundary on this survey of the borderlands between Minnesota and Ontario. The southern bank lies within the Grand Portage National Monument in Cook Co, where the landscape is marked by the dramatic descent of the water known as The Cascades. This area preserves a significant corridor of transit that predates modern infrastructure, represented here by the Grand Portage Trl. The map illustrates the sharp topographic contrast between the elevated ridges of the American side and the river valley, with limited modern development reaching this far north aside from local routes like Cowboys Rd.