We have been wanting to check out the road to the north end of Kukukus and the boat landing there, ever since we heard there was a bad wash out and campers actually got stranded last summer.
The MNR told us they did a repair job on the road last fall, so this spring John, Joanna and I loaded into our old, four wheel drive pickup and headed north on the 325 road.
The road was good for about 13 miles until we came to the repaired washout. It is quite an interesting repair job. The spillway is still open for water to flow through and the sides of the banks are packed with rocks about five to six inches in diameter. The banks are fairly steep making us wonder how in the world a person could ever pull a boat on a trailer through there without getting hung up. (In fact we did get hung up there on our way out with our plow frame pushing up logs and trees that had been packed in the dip for winter usage. We were sitting there in our truck in the middle of the spillway with water running under the truck. John and Joanna climbed onto the hood of the truck to get across without walking in the water and pulled the debris out of the way.)
We continued on down the road to the boat landing on Kukukus. There were several other tricky spots, one where the beaver dam alongside the road is about five feet higher than the road itself. One would hope that it never breaks open or the road would be under water for sure. The other spot was a creek crossing, but it was navigable with care.
The pictures give you a pretty good idea of what the difficult spots look like. We thought it might be of interest to those who like to fish Kukukus.
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