

MTT. Minnesota Tournament Trail
NWT. National Walleye Tour
AIM. Angler’s Insight Marketing
Chili Bowl, Border View Lodge
Arnesen’s, Summer Tournament
River Bend Resort, Ladies tournament
Zippel Bay Resort, Northern Pike Tournament
AND MORE!
One of Lake of the Wood’s finest neighbors is Birchdale, MN in Koochiching County.
This sweet little town is located approximately 25 miles east of Baudette on Hwy 11. Birchdale is the home of one of last and greatest one stop general store. Tourists and local clientele visit the store and are able to find anything from groceries to winter apparel and hardware. The store itself is a special icon in the area.
Another famous spot at Birchdale is Nelson Park right on the Rainy River. This beautiful location has great beauty, a boat launching area, great camp sights and picnic area. Another feature of the area is a artistic welding display of musical instruments. It is on Hwy 11 to the east of Birchdale. You’ll have to pay close attention as you travel so you don’t miss it. It was created by a local welder/artist in the Birchdale area to add to the uniqueness of this locality.
The whole weekend is a fundraiser for the Community Building operated by the River Valley Development Association (RVDA), an all non-paid volunteer non-profit organization.
First, on Friday July 16th Birchdale will have a Band & Burgers night outside in the Pavilion. Entry is $15.00 and that includes a burger basket. The headline band will be TIMBERLINE from the International Falls area.
This band lead by Delane Baumchen has toured for decades in the area and played numerous events, celebrations and gatherings. They have come out of retirement to do this one concert to support the Birchdale Community Building. Everyone are encouraged to come and also support the Community Building in Birchdale, listen to some great music and eat and good meal.
Saturday July 17th starts with a Flap-Jack breakfast from 7:00 am – 10:00 am. The Concession Stand will be open from 10:00 to 5:00 pm. A hearty Ham Dinner will be served between 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm.
Cost to attend is only $5.00 for the whole day Saturday.
There will be music all day starting at 9:45 am to 5:00 pm. The bands are; the Crowes, the Holte’s, The Alvin Anderson Show, the Ambush Jam Band, Holger Olesen, Rose Carlson, Sloughgrass and then DeLane and the Couch Riders.
The Koochiching County Historical Society will give a presentation about the area from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. You a do not want to miss this first ever History on Tap event in Birchdale, it will be fantastic. There are also historical pictures on display.
There will be a variety of vendors selling crafts and exciting products form 9:00 am to 5:00 pm around the grounds.
The first annual Birchdale Show & Shine car, motorbike and equipment show will happen between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm. Awards will be given.
Throughout the day different free workshops and demonstrations will be happening. Kids Crafts, petting zoo, historical Washing Machine display by the Olson’s, Blacksmithing, farm equipment demonstrations, old-time sewing machine Art and a free Banjo workshop for anyone that want to pick up a new hobby. There will probably be other exciting things going on. Check out the Birchdale Jubilee Event on Facebook for an updated schedule. Then make your way to Birchdale.
Sunday July 18th there will be breakfast served. at the Community Building from 7:00 am to 10:00 am. Free entry. Then a non-denominational sing along church service led by Pastor Kris Geer in the Pavilion.
The RVDA appreciate all the support it has gotten over the years from the larger Birchdale Community and friends and hope that will continue this year with a great turnout.
Vendors, exhibitors and show & Shine participants are all welcome to come out and join the fun.
For specifics about vending contact Jill Hasbargen, Show & Shine contact Amber Peterson, Exhibitors with equipment contact Leland Nelson or contact event organizer Soren Olesen with any questions.
July 16, 17 & 18th at the Birchdale Jubilee will be a fantastic weekend.
For lodging availability contact: www.lakeofthewoodsmn.com/lodging
Lake of the Woods
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to