These hiking trails are some of the most gorgeous trails available for public debut. Minnesota is known for its awesome outdoor hiking recreation at any time of the year. If you and your family or ...

Candlelight trail events are suitable for all ages. In some locations, visitors can rent snowshoes and cross-country skis at the ranger station or visitor center. The DNR advises to call the state ...

Minnesota is such a beautiful state that I could write a near-endless list of bucket-list-level views, and even if I narrowed ...

Minnesota's "Land of 10,000 Lakes" moniker evokes lasting memories of fishing, paddling and campfires at the edge of a shore. But being on the water isn't the only way to enjoy the outdoors. Thousands ...

Minnesota winters are typically quite long – compared with other places, anyway – and can be pretty cold. That leaves us with ...

Marty Walsh recently took time off to hike the bluff country of southeastern Minnesota to talk with landowners. It wasn't the first time. The Rochester man has put in the miles since 2019 to organize ...

Jun. 2—CHATFIELD, Minn. — Recreating coral shapes using yarn put Lydia Hansen on a path to learning mycology, the study of fungi. That interest is now literally along a Minnesota hiking path. Hansen, ...

Our summer tour of Minnesota's public spaces continues in a southeastern Minnesota oasis that can take visitors up onto the bluffs, into the trout streams deep underneath the ground and back in time, ...

Rudi Hargesheimer grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, in the 1950s and 60s, unaware of the North Shore’s beauty. “We never went up there. I really didn’t even know about it, or even about Lake Superior, ...

Grab your hiking shoes and jump in the car. Time to take advantage of Minnesota's great outdoors. Here are five easy hiking trails in Minnesota you may want to explore. Serious backpackers can find ...