Roseau County's two high point areas are located in Sections 24 and 25 of an unnamed township. I visited there on May 28, 2005 after completing Marshall County.
Coming from Marshall County's High Point, Roseau County Road 6 later turned to gravel.
I turned right onto C.R. 8, which was paved, and continued on C.R. 8 for 9.71 miles, and turned left on State Highway 89.
I drove north on S.H. 89 for 1.04 miles, and turned right onto C.R. 4.
I drove east on C.R. 4, and turned right into Hayes Lake State Park for 9.8 miles, where I turned around at a dead end. As it turned out, trying to go throught Hayes Lake S.P. was a bad idea.
I kept going west on C.R. 4 for 3.7 miles (including the distance within the park), and turned left onto C.R. 9 (Future visitors to this area could save some trouble by turning south from C.R. 4 to C.R. 9 six miles after turning off of S.H. 89).
I drove south on C.R. 9 for 1 mile and turned left onto C.R. 19 (gravel).
I drove south and east on this winding road for 13 miles, and turned right onto Penturan Forest Road.
I drove about 50 yards south on this road and turned around at this sign put up by the DNR:
I turned around here, and parked on C.R. 19 near this road. Although I understood this to be on a Reservation, I did not see any such markings until I was on my way back.
I really wish I'd brought a bicycle because this forest road was a large part of the way there. It is driveable by passenger car all the way to the first high point area.
I walked south on this road for 26 minutes, and turned left at the grass trail shown on the topographical map.
I continued on that trail for 5 minutes, where it split left and right, again as shown on the map.
I took the right branch and found myself on top of the first area in 2 minutes, 33 minutes from the car.
I continued south on that trail, as it generally got narrow, and joined the road going east in 7 minutes. In actuality, the road continued south along the section line for some time past this, so the track marked as a road was little more than the trail I had been on. In places, it became very narrow and windy, and in one place it was blocked by fallen trees, and I took an alternate path.
1 minute after turning onto the "road" a trail veers off left, but I went straight.
7 minutes after that, there was deep water on the road for about 50 feet, I walked around it.
5 minutes later, I took a left at a trail junction,
3 minutes after that I entered a clearing, and decided to go up from here, through the woods, but it was very thick with fallen trees and swamp land, so I turned around and got back on the trail, continuing east.
I found another trail, under deep water, and waded through, I turned around again and tried another route nearby, deciding to just plow through the water. As I began my ascent out of the swamp and toward the second area, I encountered a trail, which, of course, was the trail I had been on, and, once again, left it too early.
I walked up into the woods, several rows of tall trees, about 15 feet of gain.
Area 2 is along a summit ridge. I walked up and down between the rows until I had covered all the high ground. I got to this area 38 minutes after arriving at area 1.
I found the trail again and followed it back. It was under water for a ways at first, where I started my bushwhack, but I walked through and around it. I stayed on this path all the way to the forest road and back to my car.
I found this sign and the cable somewhere along the route, 16 minutes after leaving the second area:
I'm unclear which side of this sign was the reservation boundary.
Total hiking time was 2 hours and 13 minutes, mostly on good roads or trails.
I got back on C.R. 19, going east toward Lake of the Woods County.
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Minnesota Atlas & Gazeteer by Delorme, 3rd Edition, 2001.
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