Upper Red Lake Area Assn. That Has No Equal. This large body of water, twenty-four miles long and nine to twelve miles wide creates some of the finest ice fishing in Minnesota . Fishing is one of the major activities in the Upper Red Lake Area.
Many people enjoy it all year round.
Upper Red Lake is famous for its Crappies, Northern Pikes, White Fish, Perch and many other Game Fish . Put Upper Red Lake at the top of your recreation and vacation list, a chance to enjoy incomparable wildlife watching, camping, hiking, fishing, ice fishing, Snowmobiling, ATV Trails and other outdoor activities. The Upper Red Lake Area in Northern Minnesota , on the south edge of the Big Bog , the last remains of Lake Agassiz , a huge inland sea formed by the melting of the Pleistocene Glacier . Much of Minnesota was covered by ice during the Pleistocene Epoch . Rocks and soil materials were carried on top of and in the glacial ice.