Known locally as the "Shortcut to Lac la Croix" the Dawson portage is a two and one/half mile road cut through the woods between the shores of Sandpoint and Lac la Croix which bypasses the Loon River route. Dawson portage bears the name of a Canadian engineer who first hacked out the passage in the mid 1800's when Canadian troops needed to deploy to Winnipeg to quell the Riel rebellion. Colonel Dawson continued his work in Western Canada and later gave his name to Dawson City and the famous Dawson Trail in the Yukon territories..

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