My son and I live on Wilderness Avenue near Lake of the Woods in Minnesota. If you follow it past our place, you’ll find that it soon turns into a dirt road that plunges directly into the heart of the dense Beltrami Forest for 40 or 50 miles before coming out near Red Lake.
We’ve driven through it a number of times in the middle of the day, and I wasn’t particularly impressed with the wildlife. However, about two weeks ago we started driving out there early in the morning so my son could climb a ranger tower for exercise. (He runs up and down it like 3 or 4 times while I go half-way up once.) Anyway, since we’ve been going out there in the wee hours of the morn, we’ve seen a bear, a moose, several fox, a marten, innumerable grouse, and this morning–a Canadian lynx and her kittens!
I couldn’t get a very good shot as we weren’t prepared. You should’ve seen us panicking; Aaron threw the van in park before we stopped–it was hilarious!
It’s like a whole new environment for photographs. I never knew how lucky I was to live on Wilderness Avenue!
–Photo by me
michaeljordahl 
Lucky you.
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Indeed!
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Yes, we are headed off grid tomorrow for three weeks at our camp in the UP. Some of the most exciting times are seeing wildlife: bears, moose, eagles, sandhill cranes, grouse, beavers, we think we’ve seen a wildcat, just to name a few.
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I think the moose are the most awe-inspiring; they’re so big, it looks like they’re moving in slo-mo. Have a great time,Lynn!
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You and your son are truly fortunate to live in an area with such wildlife. Lynx are such solitary creatures. A rare sighting. I’ve also seen Lynx unexpectedly. Wilderness Avenue is so appropriate! My husband and I once bought a little fixer upper house on Comfort Street where we spent all our days working to fix it up, where we had to shovel deep snow on a steep driveway and where we shared the space with two ghosts. 😂
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Thank you, Shelley! I’m not too sure Comfort Street fits snow shoveling and ghosts!! Good to hear from you again.
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