List of Minnesota State Forests (58 items)report

• [Name]: Badoura
  [County or counties]: Cass, Hubbard
  [Area]: 4,520 acres (18.3 km²)
  [Notes]: Established 1963, sections of forest also managed by Cass and Hubbard counties.
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• [Name]: Battleground
  [County or counties]: Cass
  [Area]: 17,969 acres (72.72 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963, lies entirely within the boundaries of the Chippewa National Forest, additionally, and a portion of the forest falls within the borders of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.
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• [Name]: Bear Island
  [County or counties]: Lake, St. Louis
  [Area]: 157,814 acres (638.65 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963. Access to the 2,362-acre (956 ha) Bear Island Lake, 5,628-acre (2,278 ha) Birch Lake, as well as canoe and boat access to multiple smaller lakes within the forest. The Taconite State Trail runs through the forest, although it can only be accessed through the nearby Bear Head Lake State Park and Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
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• [Name]: Beltrami Island
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau
  [Area]: 703,336 acres (2,846.30 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933, named for Italian Explorer Giacomo Beltrami.
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• [Name]: Big Fork
  [County or counties]: Itasca, Koochiching
  [Area]: 127,929 acres (517.71 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963, the "Lost 40" and the largest red pine in the state of Minnesota are located within the forest.
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• [Name]: Birch Lakes
  [County or counties]: Stearns
  [Area]: 710 acres (2.9 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1959, The forest is located in a transitory ecotone between the temperate deciduous forest to the northeast and the tallgrass prairie to the southwest.
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• [Name]: Blackduck
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Itasca
  [Area]: 125,529 acres (508.00 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935.
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• [Name]: Bowstring
  [County or counties]: Cass, Itasca
  [Area]: 526,569 acres (2,130.95 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963. The 56,470 acres (22,850 ha) Lake Winnibigoshish is located entirely within the forest.
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• [Name]: Buena Vista
  [County or counties]: Beltrami
  [Area]: 104,073 acres (421.17 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935.
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• [Name]: Burntside
  [County or counties]: Lake, St. Louis
  [Area]: 74,815 acres (302.77 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1905, home to Burntside Lake, portions of the forest are within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Superior National Forest.
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• [Name]: Centennial
  [County or counties]: Cass
  [Area]: 3,394 acres (13.74 km²)
  [Notes]:
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• [Name]: Chengwatana
  [County or counties]: Chisago, Pine
  [Area]: 29,039 acres (117.52 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1953. The name is derived from the Ojibwe: Zhingwaadena, meaning white-pine town, after the nearby ghost town and township. Eastern White Pine was historically the dominant tree species in the surrounding forest prior to intensive logging at the end of the nineteenth century.
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• [Name]: Cloquet Valley
  [County or counties]: St. Louis
  [Area]: 327,098 acres (1,323.72 km²)
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• [Name]: Crow Wing
  [County or counties]: Crow Wing
  [Area]: 31,307 acres (126.69 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935.
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• [Name]: D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution)
  [County or counties]: Pine
  [Area]: 643 acres (2.60 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1943.
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• [Name]: Emily
  [County or counties]: Crow Wing
  [Area]: 639 acres (2.59 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Finland
  [County or counties]: Cook, Lake
  [Area]: 311,970 acres (1,262.5 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933, Minnesota DNR manages approximately 1/3, while the remaining management is by U.S. Forest Service and Cook & Lake counties. Most of the forest is within the Superior National Forest.
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• [Name]: Fond du Lac
  [County or counties]: Carlton, Saint Louis
  [Area]: 64,505 acres (261.04 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933, parts of the forest are within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation.
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• [Name]: Foot Hills
  [County or counties]: Cass, Hubbard
  [Area]: 46,896 acres (189.78 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1931, hundreds of small lakes and potholes in the forest, formed during the Wisconsin glaciation, make boating, swimming, canoeing, and kayaking popular recreation activities.
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• [Name]: General C. C. Andrews
  [County or counties]: Pine
  [Area]: 7,770 acres (31.4 km²)
  [Notes]: The forest is named in honor of Major General Christopher Columbus Andrews, a Civil War veteran, and an early Minnesota State Forestry Commissioner and proponent for scientific forestry and forest management.
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• [Name]: George Washington
  [County or counties]: Itasca, Koochiching, and St. Louis
  [Area]: 320,534 acres (1,297.16 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1931.
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• [Name]: Golden Anniversary
  [County or counties]: Itasca
  [Area]: 6,811 acres (27.56 km²)
  [Notes]: The forest was established in 1961 in celebration of the "golden anniversary" (50 years) of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources's Division of Forestry.
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• [Name]: Grand Portage
  [County or counties]: Cook
  [Area]: 99,200 acres (401 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933, in extreme northeastern Minnesota. The forest is named after the Grand Portage, a historic trade route between the Great Lakes and the Northwest.
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• [Name]: Hill River
  [County or counties]: Aitkin
  [Area]: 124,204 acres (502.64 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Huntersville
  [County or counties]: Wadena
  [Area]: 33,963 acres (137.44 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Insula
  [County or counties]: Lake
  [Area]: 609 acres (2.46 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963, managed by United States Forest Service.
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• [Name]: Jeanette
  [County or counties]: St. Louis
  [Area]: 11,521 acres (46.62 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963, managed by United States Forest Service.
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• [Name]: Kabetogama
  [County or counties]: Koochiching, St. Louis
  [Area]: 619,287 acres (2,506.17 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933. Adjacent to Voyageurs National Park, and located on Lake Vermilion.
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• [Name]: Koochiching
  [County or counties]: Itasca, Koochiching and St. Louis
  [Area]: 567,985 acres (2,298.55 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1943.
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• [Name]: Lake Isabella
  [County or counties]: Lake
  [Area]: 638 acres (2.58 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Lake of the Woods
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, and Roseau
  [Area]: 142,331 acres (575.99 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1990.
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• [Name]: Land O'Lakes
  [County or counties]: Aitkin, Cass, and Crow Wing
  [Area]: 51,498 acres (208.41 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933.
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• [Name]: Lost River
  [County or counties]: Roseau
  [Area]: 54,915 acres (222.23 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Lyons
  [County or counties]: Wadena
  [Area]: 14,789 acres (59.85 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Mississippi Headwaters
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Clearwater, and Hubbard
  [Area]: 45,290 acres (183.3 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935, The forest is named after its location immediately downstream (north) of Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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• [Name]: Nemadji
  [County or counties]: Carlton, Pine
  [Area]: 92,924 acres (376.05 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935.
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• [Name]: Northwest Angle
  [County or counties]: Lake of the Woods
  [Area]: 144,412 acres (584.41 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935. The name of the forest is derived from its location near the Northwest Angle, the northernmost point of the contiguous United States. The forest borders the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario.
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• [Name]: Pat Bayle
  [County or counties]: Cook
  [Area]: 180,403 acres (730.07 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963, located within the Superior National Forest. Eagle Mountain, the highest natural point in Minnesota, at 2,301 feet (701 m), is located within the forest.
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• [Name]: Paul Bunyan
  [County or counties]: Cass, Hubbard
  [Area]: 150,113 acres (607.49 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1935. The Paul Bunyan State Trail, the Heartland State Trail, and the North Country National Scenic Trail all pass through the forest.
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• [Name]: Pillsbury
  [County or counties]: Cass
  [Area]: 25,612 acres (103.65 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1900. Named for Governor John S. Pillsbury, who served from 1876-1882. Located on the western shore of Gull Lake.
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• [Name]: Pine Island
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Itasca, Koochiching County, Minnesota, and Lake of the Woods
  [Area]: 878,040 acres (3,553.3 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1933. Largest State Forest, although boundary of Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood is larger only about 45,000 acres of RJDMH State Forest are state owned.
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• [Name]: Red Lake
  [County or counties]: Beltrami, Koochiching
  [Area]: 84,105 acres (340.36 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1963.
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• [Name]: Remer
  [County or counties]: Cass, Itasca
  [Area]: 12,850 acres (52.0 km²)
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• [Name]: Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood
  [County or counties]: Dakota, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, and Winona
  [Area]: 1,016,204 acres (4,112.43 km²)
  [Notes]: Established in 1961. Located in Minnesota's Driftless Area. Only 45,000 acres (180 km2) of the land is state owned, with the remainder owned by private individuals and community groups, governed by easements.
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• [Name]: Rum River
  [County or counties]: Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Morrison
  [Area]: 40,605 acres (164.32 km²)
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• [Name]: Sand Dunes
  [County or counties]: Sherburne
  [Area]: 11,040 acres (44.7 km²)
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• [Name]: Savanna
  [County or counties]: Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, St. Louis
  [Area]: 238,954 acres (967.01 km²)
  [Notes]: Savanna Portage State Park is located within the forest.
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• [Name]: Smokey Bear
  [County or counties]: Koochiching
  [Area]: 12,276 acres (49.68 km²)
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• [Name]: Snake River
  [County or counties]: Aitkin, Kanabec
  [Area]: 9,635 acres (38.99 km²)
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• [Name]: Solana
  [County or counties]: Aitkin, Pine
  [Area]: 68,141 acres (275.76 km²)
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• [Name]: St. Croix
  [County or counties]: Pine
  [Area]: 42,153 acres (170.59 km²)
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• [Name]: Sturgeon River
  [County or counties]: Itasca, St. Louis
  [Area]: 170,587 acres (690.34 km²)
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• [Name]: Two Inlets
  [County or counties]: Becker, Hubbard
  [Area]: 28,051 acres (113.52 km²)
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• [Name]: Waukenabo
  [County or counties]: Aitkin
  [Area]: 15,688 acres (63.49 km²)
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• [Name]: Wealthwood
  [County or counties]: Aitkin
  [Area]: 15,042 acres (60.87 km²)
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• [Name]: Welsh Lake
  [County or counties]: Cass, Hubbard
  [Area]: 19,797 acres (80.12 km²)
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• [Name]: White Earth
  [County or counties]: Becker, Clearwater, and Mahnomen
  [Area]: 155,390 acres (628.8 km²)
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• [Name]: Whiteface River
  [County or counties]: St. Louis
  [Area]: 4,468 acres (18.08 km²)
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