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Where to hunt wild turkey near Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Last updated 2026-09-24 · seasons from MN DNR · 2026 season year
There are 37 public units within 40 miles of Grand Rapids, Minnesota that hold ground where wild turkey is recorded — 382,124 acres of it. The most of it is in Savanna, 15.1 miles out, with 116,718 recorded acres. The closest is Miscellaneous at 1 mile. The season runs October 3, 2026 to November 1, 2026 — 30 days afield, bag 1 per day, 1 in possession, read against the 2026 season year from MN DNR. Public-land boundaries here are PAD-US, which records who manages a parcel rather than where the line runs or whether a unit carries a local closure — check with MN DNR before you park.
Public land within 40 miles of Grand Rapids
Distance is measured to the nearest edge of a unit rather than to its middle, in a straight line — this app carries no road network and will not print a drive time it cannot compute. A unit whose ground reaches inside the circle is listed for the acreage that is inside it, never for its statewide total.
Ordered by recorded acres — how much of each unit lies inside subbasins where wild turkey is recorded at regular strength or better — rather than by how big the unit is. The biggest block in a state is often not in the half of it the bird is in. PAD-US splits a forest into many parcels, so acreage is summed over the unit's name, and the share is measured against the unit's drawn boundary rather than a centroid: a national forest can be two polygons across half a peninsula.
MN DNR names no geographic restriction on this season, so no unit is
excluded for being outside one.
Season geography here is read off a
dates table rather than the rule itself, and a dates table carries no boundary.
| Unit | Class | Miles | Recorded acres | Acres in range | Where the records are |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savanna part of the unit | State forest | 15.1 | 116,718 | 116,718 | 100% regular |
| Hill River | State forest | 14.5 | 79,389 | 79,389 | 100% regular |
| Chippewa National Forest part of the unit | National forest | 1.4 | 63,879 | 444,529 | 14% regular, 28% present, 27% occasional, 30% no records |
| Land O'Lakes part of the unit | State forest | 24.1 | 27,944 | 28,781 | 97% regular, 3% present |
| George Washington part of the unit | State forest | 21 | 24,478 | 75,549 | 32% regular, 68% no records |
| Miscellaneous part of the unit | State forest | 1 | 20,649 | 33,486 | 62% regular, 11% present, 13% occasional, 14% no records |
| Moose Willow WMA | Wildlife management area | 18.7 | 16,955 | 16,955 | 100% regular |
| Waukenabo part of the unit | State forest | 32.5 | 10,546 | 10,546 | 100% regular |
37 units clear the circle in all and the 8 holding the most recorded ground are named. The rest are ground a reader would drive past something better to reach.
A unit marked part of the unit has ground outside the circle as well, and the acreage here is only what is inside it. PAD-US records who manages a parcel, not where its line runs on the ground and not whether it carries a local closure: context, not permission. Check the unit with MN DNR before you park.
Season and limits
MN DNR's dates for the 2026 season year, read from MN DNR. Minnesota lists this season as Wild turkey.
| Segment | Opens | Closes | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statewide | October 3, 2026 | November 1, 2026 | 30 |
- Open today
- Shut — next opening October 3, 2026
- Bag limit
- 1 per day, 1 in possession
- Hunter orange
- required
- Shooting hours
- not carried
- Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail.
- Fall season only. One turkey of either sex; hunt any open permit area statewide, and report the area of harvest when registering.
- Spring turkey is not covered here. Minnesota runs spring turkey as numbered lottery time periods, and we could not read the 2026 period dates from MN DNR, so they are left out rather than guessed.
What to walk when you get there
Mature hardwoods that carry mast — oak ridges and beech — against open ground: pasture, food plot, log landing or field edge where birds strut and feed. Roost trees are usually the biggest timber near water.
Locate first and call second. Fall hunting is often a matter of finding a flock, scattering it and calling it back together; spring hunting is working a gobbler off the roost from a set-up he can walk to without crossing anything.
Written for this app rather than read off an agency page — the cover a bird uses does not change at a state line. Everything above that is a date, a limit or an acreage names the source it came from.
Read next
- Where to hunt wild turkey in Minnesota — every unit, ranked
- Wild turkey hunting in Minnesota — season, limits and range
- How to hunt wild turkey in Minnesota
- Wild turkey — biology, range and how it is hunted
- Minnesota hunting regulations