The Brule River is protected by the Brule River State Forest, which was created in 1907.  The Brule (with tributaries) is a highly regarded trout fishery, as well as a great river for kayaking and canoeing.  It is one of the natural treasures of Wisconsin.  The Brule is 44 miles long and falls 420 feet across its length. 

Spring fed and bordered predominantly by a northern coniferous forest, the Brule flows in the former channel of a larger river which once flowed in the opposite direction and drained the waters of the melting ice of glacial Lake Duluth. The receding glacier created Lake Superior and carved the valley now occupied by the Brule.

Instead of flowing southward out of Lake Superior, the Brule now flows northward into it starting at a continental divide near Solon Springs that separates the St. Lawrence from the Mississippi drainage systems.

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