Hikers Visit Devil’s Kettle After DNR Solves the Mysteries Surrounding it

GRAND MARAIS, Minn.- The Brule river splits at Devil’s Kettle. Part of the river flows down a waterfall. The Other part, plunges down a hole, and seemingly disappears.

In the past visitors have tried throwing objects, like sticks in to the hole to see if it would come back up, but they could never seem to find it.

“It’s been a mystery forever you know. People said that it goes through a lava tube, it goes to Lake Superior,” said Mark Nagel, a visitor.

Hydrologists from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources took it upon themselves to solve the mystery.

“They had measured the cubic feet per second flow at the top of the Brule river, and it was 123 on top, and they measured it again at the bottom and it was 121 so basically said, the water is not going to China, it’s coming back into the Brule River further down,” said Nagel.

Though the mystery has been solved Hikers still visit the devil’s kettle to marvel at it’s natural beauty.

“This is a new thing for me too, so it was good to see what actually happens,” said Stephanie Erickson who was also visiting.

But there’s still one more piece left to complete the puzzle.

“Now I just wanna know where it comes back in,” said Nagel.

The same hydrologists plan to tackle that this fall, using a dye trace to show where the water resurfaces back in to the river.