17 Facts About Ely Minnesota

Ely Minnesota is best known as an entry point for campers and canoers into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Canada's Quetico Provincial Park wilderness area.

Ely Minnesota is 100 miles north of Duluth, 117 miles southeast of International Falls, and 244 miles north of Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

Ely Minnesota, seen as the gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, has developed a lively tourist trade, but due to environmental concerns the area has recently seen controversy about a proposal to build a mining operation for copper just outside the BWCAW.

Ely Minnesota involved, Twin Metals Minnesota, is operated by a Chilean company, Antofagasta PLC.

The copper deposits beneath the forests and lakes of northeastern Minnesota are encased in sulfide ore and when that is exposed it produces sulfuric acid, which has resulted in severe water pollution in copper mines in several western U S areas.

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Ely Minnesota is home to the North American Bear Center, which opened in 2007.

Ely Minnesota gradually gained national prominence and extensive coverage in media, books and documentaries, and over the years tens of thousands of canoeists stopped by to visit and drink her homemade root beer.

Several sites in and around Ely Minnesota have been placed on the Register's list: Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow, Ely Minnesota State Theater, Listening Point, Tanner's Hospital and Burntside Lodge Historic District.

Echo Trail, considered one of Minnesota's most scenic trails, is a former logging road that runs north and west out of Ely and provides the primary access to the lakes of the western BWCAW.

In 2015, the Ely Minnesota Marathon kicked off, sending runners from the north side of Burntside Lake down the Echo Trail and into the city.

Ely Minnesota is the largest "jumping off" town for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and a major one for Quetico Provincial Park.

Ely Minnesota worked for the protection of the Boundary Waters, helped draft the Wilderness Act of 1964, and helped establish Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.

Ely Minnesota was known honorifically as the Bourgeois—a term the voyageurs used for trusted leaders.

Master builder of wood-and-canvas canoes Joe Seliga lived in Ely Minnesota and was an instructor at the camp.

Ely Minnesota is served by two community-oriented newspapers, the Ely Minnesota Echo and the North Country Angler, and a radio station, WELY.

Previously, a story was released about Ely Minnesota seceding from the United States to be part of Canada.

In 2009, Ely Minnesota made a tongue-in-cheek international bid to host the 2016 Olympics, with a man allegedly already employed with a bucket to drain Miner's Lake south of town in order to provide stadium seating.