Garden Lake at Dusk, Near Ely, Minnesota

Sunset over Garden Lake in Ely, Minnesota, with forested shoreline and mountains in distance.
Sunset over Garden Lake in Ely, Minnesota, with forested shoreline and mountains in distance.

Garden Lake sits just outside Ely, Minnesota, within the Superior National Forest near the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The lake is a popular put-in point for canoeists heading into the BWCAW's interior chain of lakes.

Photo taken in August 2022.

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