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The Suomi Hills include 19 miles of hiking and biking trails. The name comes from the nearby town of Suomi, which was founded by Finnish immigrants in the early 1900s. The Suomi Hills Recreation is a great place for beaver, otter, bald eagle, osprey, and loon sightings.

Lucky Lake is one of a few lakes in the area sometimes frequented by bald eagles. Keep an eye out for osprey, loons, beavers, otters, and other fauna. The adjacent Hill Lake to the east is also a great spot for wildlife sightings. For hikers looking for a shorter adventure, Lucky Lake makes a great turn-around point.

Spruce Island Lake is one of a few lakes in the area sometimes frequented by bald eagles. Keep an eye out for osprey, loons, beavers, otters, and other wildlife.

Miller Lake is a "sunken" lake. Like most of the lakes in the Suomi Hills Recreation Area, it is the site of beaver activity. Due to washouts over the years the water of the lake has drained repeatedly as it fills into Amen Lake.

Like much of Minnesota, the Suomi Hills were the site of extensive logging. This region was logged for pine between 1905 and 1910, and today the forest has transitioned to deciduous maple, oak, and basswood that makes the region beautiful to visit in the fall. Beaver, loons, and many other birds make the Suomi Hills a great place to experience wildlife.

The Suomi Hills include 19 miles of hiking and biking trails. The name comes from the nearby town of Suomi, which was founded by Finnish immigrants in the early 1900s. Less than a half mile up the road from the trailhead lies the Day Lake CCC camp, one of 20 such camps in Minnesota erected during the Great Depression to offer jobs surveying land replanting pine forests after Minnesota's logging boom. The history of this camp is unique in that a segregated African American company worked here in the 30's, and the camp housed German prisoners of war during WWII. More details on the history of the Day Lake CCC camp can be read from the sign at the Suomi Hills trailhead and at the camp itself up the road.

Simpson Creek was named after Sam Simpson, a successful logger who established many logging camps in the Cut Foot Sioux area between 1907 and 1908. The creek empties into Cut Foot Sioux Lake, one of Minnesota's innumerable glacial lakes.

Cut Foot Sioux Lake is a popular spot for loons, osprey, and eagles. The name "Cut Foot Sioux" is adapted from the Ojibwe name given to the lake, referencing the death of a Sioux warrior in 1748. (Ojibwe, Ojibwa, or Chippewa are all words for the group of indigenous people in Northern Minnesota).