Riverbend Refuge
Food scene
We love the Effie Cafe--hometown cooking at its finest. The service is a bit slow, and recently they were only taking cash, but it's the best breakfast around!
Effie Cafe
100 Southeast State Highway 1We love the Effie Cafe--hometown cooking at its finest. The service is a bit slow, and recently they were only taking cash, but it's the best breakfast around!
Timberwolf Inn
50021 Jack the Horse Resort RdThe Timberwolf Inn is the nicest place to go out for dinner in the area.
Sightseeing
Terrific fishing and views just ~15 minutes away on the Bigfork River. Don't tell anyone, but the Muskie fishing below the falls is world class.
Little American Falls
Terrific fishing and views just ~15 minutes away on the Bigfork River. Don't tell anyone, but the Muskie fishing below the falls is world class.
Lost 40 owes its old-growth pine forest to a surveying error that occurred during the Public Land Survey in 1882. As the story goes, the pines were missed by loggers because surveyors mistakenly mapped the area as Coddington Lake (the lake is actually located half of a mile to the southeast). The site was re-surveyed and the error corrected in 1960. Shortly after, it was incorporated into Big Fork State Forest and its old trees have since endured.
A 2009 study found the oldest individual trees within the SNA to be red pines 230-240 years old. The stand on adjoining land within Chippewa National Forest reportedly originated as early as 1745, and includes the "champion red pine" of Minnesota's Native Big Tree Registry, measured at 115" in circumference and 120' high
An interpretive trail passes through the site. This site is in an Audubon Important Bird Area and Watchable Wildlife Viewing Area. This site is within the Chippewa National Forest.
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Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area (SNA)
Lost 40 owes its old-growth pine forest to a surveying error that occurred during the Public Land Survey in 1882. As the story goes, the pines were missed by loggers because surveyors mistakenly mapped the area as Coddington Lake (the lake is actually located half of a mile to the southeast). The site was re-surveyed and the error corrected in 1960. Shortly after, it was incorporated into Big Fork State Forest and its old trees have since endured.
A 2009 study found the oldest individual trees within the SNA to be red pines 230-240 years old. The stand on adjoining land within Chippewa National Forest reportedly originated as early as 1745, and includes the "champion red pine" of Minnesota's Native Big Tree Registry, measured at 115" in circumference and 120' high
An interpretive trail passes through the site. This site is in an Audubon Important Bird Area and Watchable Wildlife Viewing Area. This site is within the Chippewa National Forest.
City/town information
Cute little logging town 15 minutes away. This is where the nearest full grocery store (Kocian's) is. There is a restaurant and a bar in Bigfork as well.
Big Fork
Cute little logging town 15 minutes away. This is where the nearest full grocery store (Kocian's) is. There is a restaurant and a bar in Bigfork as well.