World's Best Donuts? You be the judge...

A Hellman camping trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is not truly complete until the post-trip visit to Grand Marais. Grand Marais (literally in French: "big swamp") is a small town along the North Shore of Lake Superior which serves as the beginning to the Gunflint Trail, a road along which there is access to many of the Boundary Waters lakes.

Although this trip did NOT involve all the usual Hellman-frequented Grand Marais businesses (e.g. the Blue Water Cafe, the Trading Post), we did however manage to frequent the aptly-named WORLD'S GREATEST DONUTS shop. Not too many would expect to find this mortal coil's most perfect donuts in a backwoods shop in northern Minnesota, but in my opinion it is true. Check it out yourself someday.