Traveling the Old North Shore
Traveling the Old North Shore – Pat Bayle State Forest
Pat Bayle (standing) to the right of Minnesota Governor Theodore Christianson.
Pat Bayle, from 1918 edition of “Outing” magazine.
The Pat Bayle State Forest contains 180,000 acres of woods and lakes in the center of Cook County, and it actually lies within northeast Minnesota’s Superior National Forest. But who was Pat Bayle, and why is there a state forest in his name?
Producer Martha Marnocha researched the Cook County Historical Society archives to learn the story of Pat “Paddy” Bayle–a well-respected northeast Minnesota woodsman who worked for the Forest Service from 1912 to 1939.
Photos courtesy of the Cook County Historical Society.
Traveling the Old North Shore is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
