Grand Marais/Cook County
CKC · KCKC · Grand Marais, Minnesota · Cook County · map
Grand Marais/Cook County is a public-use airport owned by Cook County, 7 miles northwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota, 1,803 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 5,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CKC · ICAO KCKC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Cook County
- Elevation
- 1,803 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Green Bay sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 5,002 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 6 ft high 373 ft from the end
- Runway 28: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Ckc and aWOS-3 | 119.925 | |
| Duluth and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.9 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 218-387-1971.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Grand Marais from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Grand Marais, Minnesota: 14 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Customs available may 15-OCT 15.
- Activate or incr intst runway end identifier lights runway 10 and 28; PAPI runway 10 and 28; medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 preset low intst.
- Calm wind runway.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.