Photo: #Members of the Hells Angels arrive at the Lost Isle restaurant and bar in Carlton, Minn. Hundreds of Hells Angels members are expected in and around the Carlton area through the weekend, for their annual private gathering.
Photo: #The Lost Isle bar, just off the Carlton exit on Interstate 35, is the gathering place for the Hells Angels, begining July 29. Bar management officially offers "no comment."
Photo: #The Lost Isle bar, just off Interstate 35 at the Carlton exit.
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Members of the Hells Angels arrive at the Lost Isle restaurant and bar in Carlton, Minn. Hundreds of Hells Angels members are expected in and around the Carlton area through the weekend, for their annual private gathering. (MPR Photo / Jeffrey Thompson)
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Hells Angels arrive in Duluth area

by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio

Duluth, Minn. — Today is the first day of the annual Hells Angels USA Summer Ride, and folks in the Duluth area are noticing more motorcyclists than usual.

A bar, The Lost Isle, outside Carlton, 30-miles south of Duluth, is the designated headquarters for the Hells Angels USA Summer Ride. It's a gathering of up to a thousand club members and their followers before they head to the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis South Dakota.

Hells Angels have described the event as civil, and family-friendly. But law enforcement agencies statewide are geared up for trouble.

They expect motorcyclists to tour the North Shore and other parts of Minnesota before they head to Sturgis.

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