The Gunflint Trail, one of Minnesota's most famous roads, runs 56 miles past trails on old railroads, clear lakes, moose viewing areas, giant magnetic boulders, ancient meteor strikes, recovering fire areas, and the Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center in the historic Chik-Wauk Lodge at the end of the trail. Known across the country for its natural beauty and setting, Gunflint Lake is featured in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as the setting for the wolf exhibit in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals. People have lived in this area for a long time, and Forest Service Passport in Time archeological digs on ancient beach ridges helped discover 8000 year old tool-making sites where ancestral Native Americans made stone points from local flint-like chert and discarded their mistakes. The same chert was later used as flints in flintlock muskets, leading to the names Gunflint Lake and Gunflint Trail.