Ely sits at the end of the road in northeastern Minnesota — the last town before the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, where t

Ely sits at the end of the road in northeastern Minnesota — the last town before the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, where the pavement gives out and the portages begin. This A-frame stands on 4.6 heavily wooded acres a few minutes outside it.

It was built in 2023, and it reads as a made object rather than a bought one. Dark standing-seam metal runs from the ridge to the ground on both flanks, over a cedar gable stacked with square windows and a restored antique front door painted teal. A low deck sits off the gravel. There is no side wall to interrupt the slope.

Inside is 800 square feet. White oak flooring throughout, white oak beams in the loft bedroom, concrete countertops with a marble backsplash, custom trim, and open kitchen shelving milled from lumber salvaged out of Rock Ridge Christian Camp down the road. Pine runs to the ridge over the great room, with stacked gable windows carrying light up the peak. Heat is in-floor radiant plus a wood-burning stove made in Ireland. The well and the septic are new.

The price has moved: $340,000 in late June, $329,000 in July, $299,000 on 5 September. That is $374 a square foot against a $287,300 Zestimate, with no HOA and $626 in annual taxes. Seventy days on Zillow, 763 views, 39 saves.

The limits are worth stating plainly. One bedroom, one three-quarter bath, no cooling of any kind, gravel parking and no garage. What is for sale is a small, carefully built triangle on a large, quiet lot at the edge of the Boundary Waters.

MLS 6126422, listed by Taylor Glynn of eXp Realty.

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