It’s a cool winter’s day in January. You get up and head out for a cup of coffee. Think about heading to the nearest sledding hill. No. Something different. Chillax with friends for brunch. Been there ...

It was, Victoria Gonzalez admitted, her first time in a canoe, despite being of the ripe old age of 9 and living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. But what made this paddle even more special for the Duluth ...

What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...

CASCADE - From his youth, when he worked at a summer camp in Maine where he watched a leathery old hand build Maine guide canoes, John Greer has wanted to build his own canoe. So when the lifelong ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...