Great site with lots of great info. Am wanting to begin planning a future first to the BW and have a few ?'s and hoped to call on some of your all's infinite wisdom of the area. Here it goes in no particular order:
1) When is the best time of year to visit?
2) What is the best entry point for someone with a novice canoe partner?
3) Is it best to canoe to one main base camp and set off on day adventures for the remainder of trip, do a loop style trip, do an out and back type? (If trying to plan a week type trip.)
4) Can you pull off such a trip without a guide service...sure would hope?
5) If interested in fishing and scenery what would be our best bets for a first time trip?

Anyway, I suppose the ?'s could be endless but this gives me a starting point to pick your brains a little. Thanks for providing such a resource!

#1 get beymers books (bwca west and east versions)
#2 for a 7 night trip...loop it.
#3 are you averse to snow flurries?
#4 tolerance for "bugs"?
#5 scenery or fishing or both?
#6 willing to tackle some tough portages, or want a walk in the park?

you will get many responses here. mines only the first.

Jan ok, for 7 days....ep 23. mudro...horse river...lower basswood falls...crooked lake, out friday bay, south to the smaller lakes, exit fourtown to mudro. great scenery....falls....pictos....fishing. busy area...but not too bad in may.

You have questions, we have answers!
1) I like Sept. myself fewer people, no bugs and cool nights
2) I would suggest EP 16, EP 38, EP 25
3) I like the hybrid loop style. This involves traveling every other day.
4) You will not need a guide
5) As most on the board knows I like Iron lake off of EP 16. It has Curtain and Rebecca Falls not to mention great fishing.

* A book that I use is " Am paddlers guide to the Boundary Waters" by Micheal Duncanson???*