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Please remember that you can also call your local cooperator or the Forest Service if you cannot make changes online via .įor current updates and other recreation closures, please visit “Alerts” on the Superior National Forest’s website. The quickest way to get help is to visit the online Help Center. This change in service is necessary to provide for the health and safety of the customer service representatives and to comply with state-level stay-at-home orders. They will not be taking reservation requests via email. Support for will be provided via email until further notice. In response to the COVID-19 situation, implemented temporary measures on April 3, including suspension of the Customer Service phone service and chat. If you’ve made your travel arrangements/are renting gear/hiring a guide with a local cooperator or outfitter guide, please look for information from them or contact them directly with questions. Reminder, that Forest Service offices are currently closed to the public and will provide virtual services until further notice.

Please call the Forest Service for information on which cooperators are physically open to issue permits and which are assisting visitors virtually. All three videos should be viewed at home prior to embarking on their BWCAW trip.ĭay Use Motor visitors must contact their Permit Issue Station no later than one week prior to their trip, to designate the day of the week they will enter the BWCAW.Ĭooperating businesses that are open and conducting business operations normally can issue walk-in permits that are available the day of entry in person and show LNT video series. Permit Holders will be sent emailed links to three wilderness education videos regarding trip planning, packing and Leave No Trace. When the Permit Holder is not going on the trip, the Permit Holder is responsible for forwarding the Reservation Confirmation Email to the designated Alternate who is responsible for leading the group. Permit Holders will be instructed to print one copy of the Reservation Confirmation Email for each watercraft in their group, and each watercraft should always carry a copy of the Reservation Confirmation Email with them while in the BWCAW. The Reservation Confirmation Email is emailed from at the time of reservation and again seven days prior to the entry date. This will help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by allowing for social distancing in the permitting process. Using the printed BWCAW Reservation Confirmation Email as the permit will enable visitors to travel to their entry point without stopping at a Permit Issue Station. In alignment with current federal, state and local guidance for social distancing and to ensure health safety of its employees, partners and members of the public, the Superior National Forest will temporarily change permit pick-up requirements beginning May 5, for all BWCAW quota permits.Īs part of this, visitors will have two options: 1) print their BWCAW Reservation Confirmation Email at home and use this as their permit or 2) pick up the permit in person at a cooperating business that remains physically open and that is under an Agreement with the Forest Service.

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Reservations made through May 4 will receive a full refund including reservations fees. In order to help lessen impacts to local communities while the state’s Stay at Home order is in place, and to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) will be closed for both day and overnight use from April 15 through May 4. Tim Walz announced on April 9, that he will extend the state’s Stay at Home order to May 4.

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