Lizz Lake
Gunflint Ranger District
From Poplar Lake, BWCA Entry Point 47 provides access to Caribou Lake along two different routes. One route (the easiest) is through Lizz Lake. The other route is from Swamp Lake to the east, but this route is much less used.
Logging, courtesy of the General Logging Company, was carried out in this area between 1946 and 1963. Access was via spurs from a logging road that extended into the forest as far as the Horseshoe Lake-Vista Lake portage (Heinselman).
The Banadad Trail that meanders through this part of the forest to the north of Meeds Lake is a remnant of a gravel road that was built by the Consolidated Papers Company. This road extended into the forest from the terminus of the old General Logging Company railroad which was located about one mile to the southeast of the eastern end of Poplar Lake (Heinselman). You cross the Banadad Trail when portaging from Poplar Lake.
Water from Lizz Lake flows toward the south through a small creek into Caribou Lake.
References:
Beymer, Robert, Boundary Waters Canoe Area – Volume 2 – Eastern Region (Berkeley: Wilderness Press, 2006), 92, 112, 114, 116, 122.
Heinselman, Miron, The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 115, 118.
Exploring Lizz Lake
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A blue flag iris enhances the beauty of the already scenic shoreline of Lizz Lake in mid-summer.
Lizz Lake from the Poplar Lake portage.
Route Connections for Lizz Lake
From Lizz Lake, you can portage to Caribou Lake or Poplar Lake, which is outside of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
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