Left on this unusually delightful 5-mile trail, along the western bank of the creek. At about =0.5 m.= is the junction with a less well-defined trail; L. here on the western side of the creek to a stone cairn marking the SITE OF THE FIRST WHITE MAN'S HOME IN BOTTINEAU COUNTY and the original site of the town of Bottineau, =1 m.= Farther on the country becomes hilly, and at =2.3 m.= a faint wagon trail leads R. through a wire gate down to the GORGE, a pleasant spot where the creek flows through a heavily wooded ravine, an excellent place for picnicking. Crossing the stream, the trail follows the eastern side of the creek back toward town. At =2.5 m.= is the STATE GAME FARM, temporarily (1938) used as the Bottineau Country Club; here is a junction with the Lake Road (L) which may be followed S.; along the side of the creek, a much more attractive route, at =4 m.= the trail joins the Lake Road following the creek to the CCC DAM, =4.3 m.=, just N. of the WILLOW VALE DAIRY FARM. Here the trail crosses to the western side of the stream and rejoins the trail on which it began. Right on the Lake Road to the 640-acre LAKE METIGOSHE STATE PARK, =14.5 m.= In the park lodge is the HENRY KLEBE COLLECTION (_open_) of Turtle Mountain fossils, Indian artifacts, and geologic formations. Left on the Lake Road =15 m.= to the center of activity on LAKE METIGOSHE, largest and scenically one of the most attractive of the Turtle Mountain lakes. It has 70 m. of shore line and extends across the border into Canada. Its name comes from _metigoshe washegum_ (Chippewa, _clear water lake surrounded by oaks_). There are six resort parks (_stores_, _hotels_, _cottages_, _bathing beaches_, _boat landings_; _12-mile motorboat trip crosses into Canada, not permissible to land on Canadian side_). About 1 m. from shore is MASONS' ISLAND, where Masonic groups hold annual summer meetings. The Congregational Conference of North Dakota has a summer Bible camp on the lake, and the Great Plains Area of the Boy Scouts of America holds an annual encampment here. West of Bottineau the route proceeds over the extraordinarily level country formed by the bed of glacial Lake Souris. At =156.5 m.= is the junction with ND 14, a graveled highway. Left on this highway is KRAMER, =9 m.= (1,460 alt., 190 pop.), believed to have been named for one of the surveyors of the Soo Ry., which passes through the town. The Kramer Equity Cooperative Elevator, with a capacity of 110,000 bu., all under one roof, is one of the largest cooperative elevators in the State. Right from Kramer =2 m.= on an improved county highway to a junction with a road; L. on this road to the junction with another road, =3 m.=; R. here to a permanent CCC CAMP, =4 m.=, whose workers construct dams on the Souris River and work on the LOWER SOURIS MIGRATORY WATERFOWL REFUGE, an area of 48,000 acres, largest project of the U. S. Biological Survey in North Dakota (1938).