Friends of Lake Vermilion Trail : Phase One

The Lake Vermilion Trail will be a premier, paved, scenic route providing an opportunity for healthy, safe, non-motorized, year-round, transportation and recreation connecting Cook and Tower/Soudan in the beautiful natural landscape south of Lake Vermilion for residents and visitors.  In the 1940’s, the National Geographic Society declared Lake Vermilion one of the top 10 most scenic lakes in the United States.   The lake spans 40,000 acres with 1,200 miles of shoreline, 365 islands, and hundreds of bays and coves.  The trail would traverse a variety of landscapes from peat lands, to hilly glacial till uplands with mixed hardwood forests, to bedrock cliffs with pine forests. Phase One: 4.5 mile stretch of trail from Tower to the Y-Store. The first phase will also include tying into the Mesabi Trail.