Wisconsin’s Lake Superior Water Trail is a network of launch areas, points of interest, picnic areas, and campsites spread across 153 miles of mainland coastline and Madeline Island. It includes 12 segments, each with its own distinct character, challenges, and rewards. This route offers a remote wilderness experience featuring glacially deposited red clay bluffs which dominate the shoreline interrupted only by the Brule and Amnicon rivers and dozens of streams and drainages. Wherever streams enter the lake they create estuaries, sand bars, and remote beaches. At average or low lake levels, there may be miles of beaches just below the bluffs. Atop the bluffs, Wisconsin’s boreal forest stands beautifully. Challenges on this course include few access points and no shelter from storms.