McQuade Safe Harbor Boat Ramp
McQuade Safe Harbor Boat Ramp is a public access point in St. Louis County, Minnesota, providing access to Lake Superior. It sits within the Talmadge Creek-Frontal Lake Superior watershed.
Sourced from Minnesota Department of Natural Resources . Last checked against the source on July 7, 2026.
Boat ramps on Lake Superior
We track 9 public boat ramps on Lake Superior, including this one. If you're planning to spend your time on a different stretch of the water, one of the launch points below may put you closer to where you're actually headed than McQuade Safe Harbor Boat Ramp does — they're listed here in order of distance from this ramp.
- Knife River Marina and Harbor 7.9 mi away
- Two Harbors, Agate Bay 15 mi away
- Twin Points 31 mi away
- Silver Bay Safe Harbor 41 mi away
- Taconite Safe Harbor 64 mi away
- Tofte 70 mi away
- Grand Marais West 95 mi away
- Grand Marais Safe Harbor 95 mi away
Other boat ramps in St. Louis County
St. Louis County tracks 184 public boat ramps in total, spread across several different rivers, creeks and lakes — not just Lake Superior. Each one below shows which waterbody it's on, so you can tell at a glance whether it actually connects to the same water as McQuade Safe Harbor Boat Ramp or leads somewhere completely different.
- McQuade Safe Harbor Lake Superior less than 0.1 mi away
- Wild Rice Lake Wild Rice Lake 12 mi away
- Park Point St. Louis River Estuary Lake 12 mi away
- Rice's Point St. Louis River 12 mi away
- Spring Lake Spring Lake 13 mi away
- Island Lake, Abbot Road (East) Island Lake Reservoir Lake 14 mi away