page_title: Misquah Hills
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Misquah Hills / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: The highest natural point in Minnesota, at 2,301 feet (701 m). It is located in northern Cook County.
context_page_description: The Misquah Hills are a range of mountains in northeastern Minnesota, in the United States. They are located in or near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness within Superior National Forest. Eagle Mountain, the highest point in Minnesota at 2,301 feet, is considered to be part of the Misquah Hills.
context_section_description: The Misquah Hills are oriented east-to-west, north of the Brule River valley, and south of Cross Lake and Winchell Lake. Their peaks are all within four miles east and seven miles west of Misquah Lake, and include several of the highest points in Minnesota. More broadly, the term has been used to include the ridges and monadnocks to the south of the Brule as well. Point 2260, Gaskin Mountain (2245 ft), and Point 2230 (misidentified by Grant and Winchell as the highest point in the state) are all within the Misquah Hills by the strict definition, and Eagle Mountain (2301 ft), Peak 2266, Lima Mountain (2238 ft), Brule Mountain (2226 ft), and Pine Mountain (2194 ft) are commonly included. Adding to this confusion, the preliminary report of the original leveling party included three unnamed knobs three miles east of the Brule Mountain in the Misquah Hills as well, roughly in the area of Peak 2266.
  Their elevation above the surrounding plateau does not exceed 600 feet.  Eagle Mountain, the highest point in Minnesota at 2301 feet (701 meters) above sea level, is about 1700 feet above nearby Lake Superior. At this modest elevation the Misquah Hills nevertheless are the highest points for over five hundred miles (~800 km) in any direction, as well as the second-highest range of the Canadian Shield in the US, after the Adirondack Mountains.
caption: Eagle Mountain
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