I thought I got to eat at a lot of potluck suppers over the years as a pastor, but churches have nothing on the staff of Grand Portage National Monument. We may have a short season at Grand Portage, but we make up for the brevity with lots of social time together in the form …
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Arrowhead Center for the Arts
Grand Marais, Minnesota, is home to the Arrowhead Center for the Arts. The theater is connected to the high school but is not necessarily used by the high school. It is used often by the community, especially in the summer. The theater seats about 500. During the summer there is a constant stream of concerts …
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Grand Marais, Minnesota ended up being the town where we spent the most time while we were in Minnesota, so I can’t leave Minnesota without telling you about it and showing you some pictures. Grand Marais is the county seat of Cook County and is the largest town and sole municipality in this very large …
Amazing Waterfalls
One of the things that is really awesome and unexpected about Minnesota is all the amazing waterfalls. Every little creek or river has a waterfall along the way before it enters Lake Superior. There is a ridge of mountains (not very tall) along the shore, so all the rivers fall rapidly down the elevation instead …
Gooseberry Falls State Park
Gooseberry Falls State Park is the Minnesota park with the highest annual attendance. It is known as the gateway to the North Shore. It has lots of waterfalls, a gorge, Civilian Conservation Corps structures, wildlife, and Lake Superior shoreline. We could see how well-loved it was when we visited on a weekday and had trouble …
Questions Asked at Grand Portage
Each national park site that Tom and I have worked at has its own distinctive emphasis and personality. This means that each national park site also has its own brand of visitors and visitor questions. I have discussed some of the unique questions that we get at each place in previous posts (Death Valley, Chickamauga, …
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
The “north shore” of Lake Superior, the area along MN 61, is a beautiful area filled with state parks and lovely little towns trying to make a living off tourism. Last week we took a trip down 61 to check out a few of the state parks that we had not yet visited. One of …
Ontario Provincial Parks
After visiting Voyageurs National Park, we drove back to Grand Portage through Canada and visited two Ontario Provincial Parks. Ontario has 112 Provincial Parks, about the same as you find in the state of Texas. Ontario’s size is equivalent to Texas and Montana combined. The first provincial park we visited was Quetico: “a wilderness sanctum …
Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park was our primary destination last week when we explored northern Minnesota. We had been wanting to go there all summer but couldn’t get reservations at any of the hotels / lodges in the area until the end of August. So we had to wait. Even though Voyageurs National Park is almost directly …
Grand Canyon of Minnesota
Last week Tom, Val, Johnny, and I went on a three day adventure across the northern part of Minnesota. Our first destination was the Grand Canyon of Minnesota. The Grand Canyon of Minnesota is an unusual Grand Canyon: the Hull Rust-Mahoning Iron Mine. Some grand canyons are grand CANYONS. Some grand canyons look like the …