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ROUTES/PORTAGES FROM CARL LAKE:
To Lux Lake: Walk the 15 rod portage
To Morgan Lake: Walk the 10 rod portage

Carl Lake

Gunflint Ranger District

CARL LAKE CAMPSITE:
Campsite 1 (#775): Only campsite on the lake

Carl Lake is a small lake south of Morgan Lake. Most groups don't pass through Carl Lake and Lux Lake, but rather go straight west from Morgan Lake into Jake Lake. Therefore Carl Lake is less visited. Some visitors to Carl Lake are actually daytrippers that are camping on Vista Lake and Horseshoe Lake.

Carl Lake has northern pike.

Carl Lake drains to the north into Morgan Lake along a short creek. Carl Lake and Lux Lake are separated by a steep, but short portage, that traverses a low ridge that separates these two lakes.

References:
Pauly, Daniel, Exploring the Boundary Waters (Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 292.

Exploring Carl Lake

Routes to locations on Carl Lake are shown below:
Paddling from the Morgan Lake portage to BWCA Campsite 775
Paddling from BWCA Campsite 775 to the Lux Lake portage

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PADDLING FROM THE MORGAN LAKE PORTAGE TO BWCA CAMPSITE 775

View of Carl Lake from the Morgan Lake portage landing.

Paddling from the Morgan Lake portage to Carl Lakes only campsite.


Visit the Campsite -or- Explore Another Route
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PADDLING FROM BWCA CAMPSITE 775 TO THE LUX LAKE PORTAGE

Looking west from the only campsite on Carl Lake.

From the Carl Lake campsite, paddling westward to the Lux Lake portage landing.


Portage to Lux Lake -or- Explore Another Route
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Route Connections for Carl Lake

From Carl Lake you can portage to Lux Lake or Morgan Lake.

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