Airports · Minnesota · airfield · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Wild Rice Lake

MN35 · Duluth, Minnesota · St Louis County · map

Wild Rice Lake is a private airfield, 9 miles northwest of Duluth, Minnesota, 1,380 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA MN35
Kind: Airfield · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,380 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: May to October, every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: Green Bay sectional
Magnetic variation: 2E
In the FAA's files since: January 1962

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
ALL/WAY	6,000 × 6,000 ft	Water

Aircraft registered in Duluth from the FAA register

558 aircraft are registered to owners in Duluth, Minnesota: 468 piston singles, 79 business jets, 6 helicopters, 4 piston twins, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this airfield; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airfield alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Cirrus Design CORP 422 Ascent Aviation INC 6 Lake Superior Helicopters LLC 5Salter 11X LLC 4Lake Superior College 3

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Minnesota.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airfield NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airfield.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Duluth International DLH · 4 nm south Sky Harbor Airport DYT · 12 nm southeast Richard I Bong Airport SUW · 13 nm south Cloquet/Carlton County COQ · 18 nm southwest Richard B Helgeson Airport TWM · 19 nm northeast St. Mary'S Hospital Heliport MN33 · 7 nm southeast · private St. Luke Hospital Heliport MN48 · 7 nm southeast · private Superior Aero Estates Airport 43MN · 10 nm west · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Traffic ptn to be compatible with Duluth municipal.
724-6868 office.

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.