Anybody have any info on Table Rock on Crooked Lake, specifically about somebody trying to lift and move it, and breaking it?

and I pulled a muscle trying to move my couch.

the Minnesota Historical Society,they have the big building by the freeway in St Paul,tried to move it and busted it.i don't know the details but it was in the 30's?40?..

I REALLY don't think that would work.

i have someone "inside" the Society looking into the secret archives to see if this is the true scoop or just hearsay.they think it might have been a CCC project.

Just how in the world would anyone be able to transport that monstrous rock out of the BWCA??? It definitely sounds like a made up tale to me. I wouldn't mind to be proved wrong though. I, too, would need to know the FACTS on the matter.

More than likely table rock is just a flat spot on bedrock, good luck with that.

Moose--its a real "table" rock.i've see it.you can sit on the ground and use it as a table.there are accounts of it being used as far back as the 1700's... as far as moving it the CCC camps ran big launches on these lakes to carry supply's and logging roads ran south out of Crooked lake.i'll try a Google picture search--

that was easy..here you go..when i was there the river was lower and it was dry all the way around.

here's a little more on the subject..in Portage Into The Past,Arnold Bolz said they passed Table Rock on the 1958 trip across the park.He called it Millstone Rock and from the old books he had along found a reference to it made by David Thompson 1797.Thompson camped there and shot a duck in a "mizzling" rain.i wonder if the rock was called millstone before being named table as the natives or Voyageurs may have used it as a grindstone for wild grains?

Here's a pic of the Table from last June....notice the lower water levels than on wetcanodog's shot...you can really see the stones that make of the "legs" of the Table.

I like this thread. I was there in July and wondered how table rock came to be.

A quick Google search did not offer much insight. I hope someone has the story.

i think its in the same spot it was when the glaciers receded...maybe ancient astronauts were involved though.

Pineknot, wow that was low!

Even lower water levels. Look at those perfectly placed table legs.

I think Kanoes may have something there...or maybe it was the Norsemen.

"I think its in the same spot it was when the glaciers receded" just like the one on Kelso Lake....Oooooo!

I think kanoes has been listening to too much Art Bell.

Some human(s) did this...

i'm sure the legs were put there some years ago when there were resorts and power boats on the lakes.a few car jacks or some of the heavy duty ones found in logging camps would have got it up enough to slide those under.if some very old photos could be found,pre 1920's,you might see those legs are not there.