Most modern day travelers can list a dozen busy airports between major cities in the world. Crane Lake boasts two of the busiest international seaplane bases in the Northern United States. 

There has been a U.S. Customs office in Crane Lake for about 100 years and the community's central location in the heart of the Northwoods lake country makes it a popular stop for floatplane pilots traveling between fishing cabins or northern resorts and their homes. Several Crane Lake commercial floatplane services also use the inland lake area as a port-of-entry for "fly-in" fishing excursions.

Another extremely busy seaplane base in the Crane Lake area is Sandpoint Lake. This base is the Canadian Customs checkpoint.

Between the two seaplane bases there are more than five-thousand takeoffs and landings each year.

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