BWCA Entry Point, Route, and Trip Report Blog
September 06 2026
Entry Point 23 - Mudro Lake
Number of Permits per Day: 5
Elevation: 1166 feet
Latitude: 48.0356
Longitude: -91.8301
On the Water- Monday July 20th-
On the water late considering how far we need to go today. Up the Horse river to the falls by 6pm. Started raining and NO campsites available. Mudrow-Alruss-Tin can Mike-Horse Lake-Horse River-Basswood. 13 miles by water. (not counting portages)
Tuesday July 21st-
Rain all night, all morning and all day. Went north by petroglyphs, table rock and the the Crocked Lake Narrows across Thursday bay to campsite. Basswood-Crooked Lake-Wednesday Bay-Thursday Bay. 11 miles in the rain.
Wednesday July 22nd-
Up early and calm winds to take advantage of, considering the big water we have to cross. Found beaver dam to lift over and did a portage from hell between Pandos lake and Chippewa Lake. VERY steep and slippery after rain. Many mud holes. Then the mile portage after Wagosh Lake to Gun Lake. Never saw another soul in a canoe or campsite the entire day! Thursday bay-Friday Bay-Pandos Lake-Chippewa Lake-Wagosh lake-Gun Lake. 11 miles by water.
Thursday July 23rd-
Finally had a dry night. got everything dry!!! A few portages today to Fourtown Lake campsite. Easy day by comparison. Gun Lake-Fairy Lake-Boot Lake-Fourtown Lake. 6 miles. Put the long miles at the first of the week for a buffer for contingencies!
Friday July 24th-
Last day. Stormed last night bad. A few portages today with one bad one between Fourtown Lake and Mudrow lake. To entry point by 1pm. Ready for a hot shower! 4 miles
Total-
45 miles by water
13 miles by portage (3 trips each)
58 miles total.
Couple's Trip 2026
Entry Date:
August 13, 2026
Entry Point:
Crab Lake and Cummings from Burntside Lake
Number of Days:
10
Group Size:
2
I have put together two videos. One with the video from the GoPro and other one with the pictures we took.
https://youtu.be/z2d9rlURijs
https://youtu.be/79Y0HSGBclM
Enjoy!
We launch on Burntside Lake at 9:00 am. An hour later we arrive at the portage. It takes us close to two and a half hours to double portage. I carry a light pack with the canoe. Brenda carries the food pack and fishing poles and then we each carry another pack on the two trips as we leap-frog the portage. The water levels in the middle of the portage have changed because of beaver activity. We reload the canoe and float across it. We get to campsite 310 at around 12:45. We have lunch and talk it over. Do we want to push on for Silica Lake today or wait? I know that if we wait, I won’t want to move tomorrow, so do we spend 2 nights here? Since we where not in a hurry, we decided to wait. Brenda catches her biggest smallmouth bass of the trip that night.
The adventure to get to Silica Lake begins. It was supposed to be a rainy morning, so we were not in a hurry to break camp. We leave around noon and it really starts to rain while we are on the portage to Little Crab Lake. We wait for the rain to pass and then continue. We easily travel to the creek that breaks off the Korb River to go to Silica Lake. It’s very clear to us that we may not make it to our destination fully loaded with gear. There are dead lily pads and exposed creek bottom. The water is low and there are at least five challenging places to get through. The worst was a tree we had to get over. It was slightly submerged but we couldn’t float over it. Brenda got out and balanced on the tree, I then gunnel walked to the front of the canoe and got out and balanced on the other side of canoe on the tree. We then had to pull the canoe over and then get back into the canoe. Thankfully we didn’t fall into the muck and made it through. We came up to a beaver dam and I told Brenda, “If we can’t portage from here, I don’t think we can make it.” Luckily, we could portage. Thankfully, no one was camping at Silica Lake and we liked the campsite enough to not explore the Coxey Pond campsite. In the evening, we decided to go fishing because the lake was calm. We caught some really nice sized bluegill.
We travel to Coxey Pond and there is a significant dead fall right on the path. There is no good path around it, so we just crash through. We explore the campsite and we are glad we chose the Silica Lake campsite. The wind was fairly consistent so we fish the east shoreline of the big bay and we catch some smaller smallmouth bass. On the way back we take the time to clear the dead fall. This portage area is loaded with blueberry plants, but we are too late in the season.