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travel as it contains a fine macadam road. The 

 Superior National Forest of Minnesota, which 

 covers 1,250,000 acres and contains 150,000 acres 

 of lakes, is becoming very popular. It is called 

 "the land of ten thousand lakes." One can 

 travel in a canoe through this forest for a month 

 at a time without passing over the same lake 

 twice. Other popular national forests are the 

 Angeles in southern California, the Pike and 

 Colorado in Colorado, and the Oregon and Wen- 

 atchee the Pacific Northwest. Visitors to these 

 forests total more than 1,750,000 a year. 



The western forests are also being used for 

 winter sports. They furnish excellent condi- 

 tions for snow-shoe trips, skiing and sledding. 

 The people who have camps on government land 

 use their places for week-end excursions during 

 the snow season when the roads are passable. 

 The White Mountain National Forest is used 

 more for winter sports than any other govern- 

 ment woodland. At many of the towns of New 

 Hampshire and Maine, huge carnivals are held 

 each winter. Championship contests in skiing, 

 snowshoeing, skating, ski jumping, tobogganing 

 and ski-joring are held. Snow sport games are 

 also annual events in the Routt, Leadville and 



