Clara Lk Rd-Silver Lake
Minnesota
Free — you'll pick up right here.
0.5 mi
Distance
29 ft
Gain
10 min
Time
No verdict for this trail
We won't guess. Here is exactly what we do and don't know.
What we do know
Inside Superior National Forest
2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.
Boundary data
What's missing
No access route mapped
We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.
Nobody's filed a report here yet — be the first.
Why you'll love it
Here's your day, mapped
Clara Lk Rd-Silver Lake
Suggested plan · check conditions before you go
Meals
Gear for the day
Elevation & route
- Distance
- 0.5 mi
- Elevation gain
- 29 ft
- Elevation loss
- 29 ft
- Highest point
- 1,720 ft
- Lowest point
- 1,709 ft
Photos
Directions & GPX
Permits & access
- Managing agency
- Forest Service
- Bikes
- Not allowed
- Horses
- Not allowed
- Surface
- Natural
- Accessibility
- Not an accessible trail (Forest Service accessibility status)
Source for bikes, horses, surface, accessibility: USDA Forest Service National Forest System Trails (EDW)
About this trail
Clara Lk Rd-Silver Lake is a short out-and-back trail in Minnesota covering 0.45 miles with 18 feet of elevation gain. The trail follows a straightforward path and returns via the same route it used to go out.
Facts about this trail
The climb
- High point
- 1,720 ft
- Total climbing
- 29 ft
- Total descent
- 29 ft
- Steepest stretch
- 4% grade right from the start
- Length (round trip)
- 0.5 mi
- Shape
- Out and back
It's essentially flat.
Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)
Where it is
- Tofte Ranger District · Ranger district
- Superior National Forest · National forest
- Managed by
- Forest Service
Conditions
Active alerts for Tofte Ranger District as of Oct 9, 2026:
Closure Order for Cook County Brush Disposal Site
critical · posted Aug 24, 2026
Source: USFS forest alerts
Nearby
- Bulge Lake-Silver LakeHiking0.5 mi
- Clara Lake Rustic CampgroundCamping1 mi
- Rice LakeLake fishing1.2 mi
- Crescent to Rice Lake Canoe RouteCanoeing1.5 mi
- Crescent Lake CgCamping2.9 mi
- White Pine Lake CampgroundCamping3.1 mi
- Petes PointHiking3.4 mi
- Wills Hunter Walking Spur FHiking3.7 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
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