Iron Range Off-Highway Vehicle State Recreation Area is a Minnesota state park located east of Lake Ore-be-gone in Gilbert,

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. The recreation area consists of of trails on a unit, all of which was local

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mining land until 1981. A expansion of the recreation area is also being planned, with land acquisition underway. The recreation area has trails for all classes of off-highway vehicles defined by the

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or Minnesota DNR, is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks, state forests, rec ...

, including Off-Highway Motorcycles, Class I All-Terrain Vehicles, Class II All-Terrain Vehicles, and

Off-Road Vehicles An off-road vehicle (ORV), also known as an off-highway vehicle (OHV), overland vehicle or adventure vehicle, is a type of transportation specifically engineered to navigate unpaved roads and surfaces. These include trails, forest roads, and o ...

. Minnesota is one of three states to have a state-maintained off-road recreation area, the others being

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and

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Iron Range OHV State Recreation Area
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Iron Range Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area
at Irontrail.com. {{authority control Protected areas of St. Louis County, Minnesota State parks of Minnesota 2002 establishments in Minnesota Protected areas established in 2002