R&I – FS
The ice road crosses Lake of the Woods, giving struggling resorts a lifeline.
They may as well be on the moon.
“Cut off,” Paul says. “Totally, totally.”
For the past 10 months, the Minnesota husband and wife have been essentially severed from the rest of the United States.
That’s when Canada, seeking to slow the spread of COVID-19, closed its southern border to all but essential travel.
Roughly 40 miles away, a dozen resorts, and about 100 residents they support, lost the Canadian highway that provides the only access into Minnesota’s Northwest Angle.
Summer bookings evaporated at Jake’s Northwest Angle, the third-generation resort started by Paul’s grandfather.
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