In this informative memoir, the author recounts his 28 years at their Gunflint Lake cabin. But the prognosis for the future is grave, he warns, as a new lifestyle of affluence reshapes the landscape into Suburbia North. It is time that an old cabin owner chronicle these cabin days, hoping that an older reader might say, "oh, yeah, I remember that," or a younger reader longing for a simpler, less stressful lifestyle may say, "Hey, cool."

Throughout its history, the Gunflint Trail has been home to a great number of remarkable residents, each of whom had a part in making the Gunflint what it is. Minnesota's Gunflint region is sandwiched between sections of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and entirely within the Superior National Forest. A rugged, remote place that demands a different lifestyle. Learn about the Gunflint's earliest inhabitants, the Voyageurs, mining attempts,...