BWCAW Permits
Permits are required anywhere you travel in the BWCAW. We'll help you through this process when you make reservations with us.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. To preserve the wilderness, visitors to the BWCAW must follow certain regulations. Click on this link to learn the details:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/superior/bwcaw.
PACKSACK Canoe Trips & Log Cabins is an official Permit Issuing Station. WE CAN RESERVE AND ISSUE YOUR PERMIT or you can make the reservation yourself by going to http://www.recreation.gov. Be sure and list Packsack Canoe Trips & Log Cabins as your pickup point.
The reservation fee for each permit is $6.00. A $32.00 deposit on the User Fee will be applied. The total User Fee will be $16.00 per adult and $8.00 per youth.
Permits are required in the Quetico also. Please contact us for information.
We recommend that you secure any permit as soon as you know your dates of travel.
DAY-USE MOTOR and OVERNIGHT MOTOR PERMITS
PACKSACK Canoe Trips & Log Cabins guests have access to great walleye, northern pike and smallmouth fishing on Fall Lake or, via two short wheel portages, the famed Basswood Lake.
Day-Use Motor Permits are needed to fish in Basswood Lake if you will be fishing that area, entering and exiting on the same day with boat and motor. At $6.00 each, these permits are good for any one day that week.
Overnight Motor Permits are needed for those going into Basswood Lake with boat and motor on an overnight camping trip. The reservation fee for each permit is $6.00. A $32.00 deposit is required and goes toward the User Fees ($16.00/adult and $8.00/youth). Overnight Motor Permits are very limited and go fast - we strongly recommend you make the reservation as soon as you know your dates!