All of the children who have attended Cook County schools from along the Gunflint Trail know that bus route is one of the longest in the United States. A recent feature in Route, a magazine for bus owners and operators, takes an interesting look at this 57-mile-long Northwoods bus route.
In addition to quotes from ISD 166 bus driver Patrick MacDonnell, who grew up on Hungry Jack Lake on the Gunflint Trail, Superintendent Beth Schwarz, District Transportation Specialist Tom Nelson and student Jaret Baker and his mother, Sherri Baker, there are lots of nice pictures of wintry scenery.
That’s the point of the article, to show off the durability of the school busses and the writer notes that the average high in January is 15 degrees F and the average low is 9 below. The day the magazine crew visited the temperature was approximately minus 11 degrees. The bus, of course, was warm, Seth Putnam wrote.
The magazine has also produced a video that captures the experience of riding the Gunflint Trail bus route—some of it via aerial photography. See the adventure firsthand by visiting “The Bus Stop” at www.ICBus.com.
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