Gunflint Trail (north shore/grand marais) TT free camping?

EsoxLucius wrote:
There was also a large fire in the area in 2007, probably started by boondockers.

That was the Ham Lake fire. It was human-caused, but not by RV boondockers. It was by a man that was canoe camping just outside the BWCA boundary. He was accused of starting a fire and then leaving it unattended and not completely extinguishing it. It ultimately burned 75,000 acres or about 117 square miles, destroyed 140 structures and 10 year-round homes. It also burned into Canada. It was the largest wildfire in Minnesota since the 1918 Moose Lake/Cloquet fire.

It was a sad situation all the way around. Ultimately, prior to ever going to court, the 67 year old man committed suicide in 2008. He was facing up to 5 years in prison and paying the millions of dollars in suppression costs related to the fire.

Just a year before, in 2006 the Cavity fire just to the west of the Gunflint trail burned 30,000 acres. That fire was lightning-started and burned predominantly in the dried timber that blew down in the 1999 windstorm. But that fire did not reach the private lands and homes of the Gunflint trail.