Triumph Lake
Making Connections
- Bushwhack West & North, 2.1 miles, down
Triumph Creek, to Bootleg
- Bushwhack Northeast, 280 rods, to Canthook
Maps
- Fisher
F-8, Vermilion,
Trout Lake, Vermilion River, Bootleg Lake
- McKenzie
No. 15, Trout Lake
Links
- DNR Lake No.
690xxx
- Lake Map No.
N/A
- Lake Table No. 1
- MDH Fish Consumption
Advisory - N/A
- MPCA Water Quality
- N/A
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Scale 1:21420
Full image approximately 2
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Description
Triumph is a small, relatively shallow
lake at the head of Triumph Creek in the Little Indian Sioux drainage, 21¾
miles southeast of Crane Lake and 18½ miles northwest of Ely.
Oriented NE/SW along the northwestern edge of steep hills, the lake is ¾
long but fairly narrow. At its southwestern end, Triumph Creek begins
its 2 mile run to Bootleg. Along the southern
shore, Van Vac Creek drops down the steep hillside from Van
Vac Lake, perched on the hill 35' above Triumph and just 350 yards to
the southeast.
The forests which grew round Triumph were largely logged off for sawtimber
between 1895 and 1915; pines mostly, destined for the sawmills of Tower.
Back from the shoreline, beyond the limits of the logging, most of the
forests date from the Civil War era fires of 1863-64 which burned so much
of this part of the BWCA. The forest in the lowlands to the north
of the lake dates back to a major burn in 1755. The high ground
to its east burned in 1863-64; that to the west again in 1910. The
Independence Day windstorms of 1999 did little damage to Triumph itself,
but caused major tree loss to the south and west of the lake
Campsites
Triumph is not on any maintained route
and supports no established campsites. Its close proximity to Canthook,
however, suggests that it may be located in the Canthook
Lake Primitive Management Area, and so would be available for primitive
camping by permit.
Planning Considerations
Triumph is on the way to nowhere (except
the even more remote Van Vac) and an unlikely
destination in its own right. With all the downed timber to the southwest,
from whence come the prevailing summer winds, a visit to either Triumph
or Van Vac in a dry season might be a risky venture, at least until the
fuel load declines.
Wildlife
The west end of Triumph opens onto a broad
marshy expanse of what is probably very good moose, and thus also wolf,
habitat.
Notes and Comments
If you do get in to Triumph send us a photo.
We'll publish it here. (It's the only way most BWCA paddlers will
get to see this lake.)
Triumph is sometimes known as Wren Lake.
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Last updated on
11 April, 2004
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