Enjoy tasty berries in season (July and August) and admire Northern Light Lake from atop Blueberry Hill. If you’re heading up the Gunflint Trail for the day, this makes a great leg-stretcher stop. This is a short steep hike that includes bedrock, which can be slippery when wet. The there-and-back trail includes two northern overlooks of Northern Light Lake [three in spring and fall when the trees don’t have leaves].
The trail is semi-maintained with one narrow, wooded section where you may wonder if you’ve gone astray; keep climbing, you haven’t. At the uppermost overlook a 0.1 mile spur leads west over a rock outcrop before petering out. Admire the handful of magnificent old growth white pines along this trail.
