2026 Trip Planning and
Winter Update
January 5th, 2026
Welcome to our website here at La Tourell's Resort and Outfitters. We hope you find the information on our site helpful. We'll be regularly updating this newsletter with fishing reports, forest conditions, and other helpful information. If you are a regular visitor here or someone that is looking at visiting us for the first time, please feel free to contact us with any other questions you may have. Please also check out our Facebook and "X" pages.
It has been great talking to so many of you about your 2026 trips with us. We're looking forward to seeing all of you that are regular visitors as well as meeting those of you visiting us for the first time. For those of you that have not yet finalized any plans with us, please contact us at your earliest convenience if you are thinking of making a visit with us. Several weeks are full at this point for cabin accommodations, but many dates still have availability. Boundary Waters canoe camping trip permits will soon become available on January 28th which is a Wednesday. For the overnight canoe trips, it is best to get your dates set when they open the system, although there will be many options still available after the go live date. Motorized permits are very limited and that permit system fills very quickly that morning. If you have any cabin day trip boating or boat camping trips in mind, please contact us before January 28th which will allow you the most options to obtain the permits you would like for your trip. Quetico Park camping trip permit reservations can be made 5 months to the date before the trip or later and as a general rule availability for these park permits has been good. Again, we are available to help all of our customers navigate these systems. With either wilderness area, to have the best chance at securing your preferred trip dates its best to contact us at your earliest convenience.
For those of you looking at travelling into Quetico Park on the Ontario side of our wilderness area, we do have some good news as well as a few unaswered questions on how to access that part of our wilderness area. In our remote area, the system on how to enter Canada in regards to Canada customs is finally materializing. Remember this is a different procedure than the Quetico Provincial Park camping permits which has been operating as normal. This Canada federal government customs clearance system, which has been known as the Remote Area Border Crossing permit or RABC, is currently formulating a new process that will apply to future trips. There will be some sort of a phone in system that will be used to report to Canada for future Quetico trips in our area. The good news is that until that system is up and running, RABC's that were valid in 2024 and then extended through 2025 will also be good until mid September of 2026. So if you have a 2024 RABC, you will be good for this season for heading into Quetico. Exact information on how the phone system will work has not yet been released and there has been no date announced as to when it will be operational. We are hopeful that it will be able to be implemented in time for this season, but we still don't have any confirmation of if that will happen or when. We will provide more information about this procedure as we learn more in the coming weeks.
This winter has so far been a fairly typical winter with some snow and quite a few colder temperatures. Even though we are still a bit below our normal snow levels, we have had an adequate amount as well as some very cold temperatures around Christmas and New Years. We'll keep you updated with current conditions as the spring begins with ice out predictions, water levels, and forest moisture levels.
We are again selling several of our kevlar canoe fleet this spring. Please let us know if you have any questions on what canoes we have available and we'll be glad to get you specific canoe photos, prices, and information.
Looking back at last season, we enjoyed seeing so many of you. Some of the highlights of the season were the new Deluxe two bedroom cabin being opened up, many great nights of Northern Lights, as well as continued great fishing reports. We look forward to being able to share in your experiences with us again in 2026!
Thank you again for visiting our site! We enjoy sharing your experiences to these Northwoods our family calls home. We truly appreciate each of your visits with us and look forward to helping you with your vacation plans.