Rainy Lake Visitor Center Boats

When we spent the day on Rainy Lake we launched at the boat launch at the visitor center for Voyagers National Park.  Its free to launch there and many people use it including cabin owners that have cabins on the islands.  They can safely park their vehicles for a day or a week or longer.  People that take their boats and just go camp on the islands at the designated campsites also launch here.  All they have to have is a free overnight camping permit. 

The big boat in the picture is the tour boat that the park service owns.  They do two hour tours of the lake.  You get to see the islands that had gold mines on them.  You also get a nice tour of the lake itself.  The other picture has our boat up front and the park service boats in the back.  There is also a sheriffs boat parked here.  When we were there we saw the sheriff race in by car and then him and a deputy or first responder ran to the sheriff boat and tore out on the lake.  We heard a 12 year old boy was hurt out on one of the houseboats.  We didn't here any more than that so don't know if he was ok or not.