Chik-Waulk Museum will host the annual Pie and Ice Cream Social – Saturday, September 3, 2023. (North Shore Journal stock photo)
The annual Old Fashioned Pie and Ice Cream Social will be held on Saturday, Sep-tember 3, at the Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center. This fun community event is an important fundraiser for the Gunflint Trail Historical Society. Funds raised at the Social help operate the Chik-Wauk Museum, an important part of the Gunflint Trail Experience.
Located on Saganaga Lake at the edge of the BWCAW, the Chik-Wauk Campus was once a fishing resort, opened in 1931. The Campus offers many different activities and presentations all season long. The Lodge, which houses the museum today, was built in 1934.
From 1957 to 1978, the resort was owned by Ralph and Bea Griffis, who sold the property to the US Forest Service. They operated the resort through the 1980 season, and under the terms of the sale to the Forest Service, they were allowed to make the resort their summer home for the balance of their lives.
The North Shore Swing Band performs on the front porch of the Lodge from 1 to 3 pm. Bring a lawn chair along to sit and enjoy the music.
There will be lots of locally homemade pies to choose from during the festivities. The suggested minimum donation is $5 for a slice of pie, ice cream, and something to drink.
- The Annual Chik-Wauk “sidewalk” sale offers steep discounts on many gift shop items
- The Gunflint Trail Business Pie Competition (last year’s winner, Gunflint Pines)
- The Individual Pie Competition (last year’s winner, Paul Wehking)
- A Pie Eating Contest
- A Silent Auction
- Games
Loon’s Nest Coffee Shop donates coffee. Upper Lake Foods donates ice cream.
The Social is a fun way to wrap up the sum-mer and say, “So long till next year,” to Gun-flint Trail friends and neighbors from Chik-Wauk and the Historical Society.
Admission is free.
Cook County Commissioners authorized road construction of the Gunflint Trail in 1884. First named Rove Lake Road, it is now a scenic and fully paved 57-mile-long byway. Prior to that, it was a walking trail used by Native Americans, trappers, surveyors, and prospec-tors. Native Americans, fur trappers, traders, Voyageurs, miners and loggers, fishing camps, resorts, campgrounds, and individual residents are all part of Gunflint Trail history.
Experience the cultural and natural history of the Gunflint Trail at the Chik-Wauk Muse-um and Nature Center.
To donate a pie or enter the pie competition, please email info@gunflinthistory.org or call 218-388-9915 by the end of August.
