Upper Red Lake Area Association

Big Bog State Park Project
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This large body of water, twenty-four miles long and nine to twelve miles wide creates some of the finest ice fishing in Minnesota.  Fishing is one of the major activities in the Upper Red Lake Area.  Many people enjoy 
it all year round.  Upper Red Lake is famous for its  Crappies, Northern Pike, White Fish, Perch and many other game fish. Check out the          Upper Red Lake Fishing MN Forum and see what others have to say! 

Put Upper Red Lake at the top of your recreation and vacation list, a chance to enjoy incomparable wildlife watching, camping, hiking, fishing, ice fishing, take advantage of the many miles of Snow Mobiling and ATV trails and other outdoor activities. 

Experience the breathtaking winter beauty of the "Big Bog"!

The Upper Red Lake Area in Northern Minnesota, on the south edge of the Big Bog, the last remains of Glacial Lake Agassiz, a huge inland sea formed by the melting of the Pleistocene Glacier. What remains is grand and inspiring!!

Much of Minnesota was covered by ice during the Pleistocene Epoch. Rocks and soil materials were carried on top of and in the glacial ice. They were later re-deposited and formed diverse features. Lakes and depressions are now common in the glacial landscape. Many lakes formed when large blocks of ice were surrounded by outwash sands as the glacier melted. When these ice blocks melted, deep depressions, kettles, remained as lakes. Lakes also formed in linear depressions that had been scoured out by the glacier. Swamps and marshes occur where vegetation colonized shallow depressions.

Just come to enjoy the quiet, peaceful atmosphere and 
the winter scenery!