When most people think of Minnesota Lighthouses, they immediately go to Split Rock Lighthouse. But lighthouses are scattered all over Minnesota, including St. Paul. One of the best parts is seeing how ...

GRAND MARAIS — A small chunk of Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior is being set aside to protect rare ecological and geological features unique to one portion of the big lake’s rocky coast. The ...

We've got something for every kind of reader: poems for the doomscroller, essays about the natural world, a comic collab with ...

Minnesota's North Shore Scenic Drive is one of the best scenic drives in the country, according to the 2025 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards. The route, a 150-plus mile stretch along the north ...

Leaves change, but roadside attractions do not. Minnesota Hwy. 61, which winds for 150 miles along the North Shore from Duluth to Grand Portage, is rich in popular points of interest: Gooseberry Falls ...

Carnivorous plants, a picturesque pebble beach and outcrops of a rare type of volcanic lava rock highlight Minnesota’s newest nature preserve. The Icelandite Coastal Fen Scientific and Natural Area is ...

A view of Bean Lake along the Superior Hiking Trail near Silver Bay in May 2014. That section of the trail reopened Friday after being closed for maintenance over the summer.

The Crosby Fire near Silver Bay, Minnesota, is now 70% contained, state officials said on Monday morning. According to the Minnesota Incident Command System, a lightning strike sparked the flames.

Duluth, Minn. — For over 11 years Jay Austin and his research team at the University of Minnesota Duluth have carefully tended to a crop of bright-yellow meteorological buoys floating on Lake Superior ...

“I’ll keep working my way back to you, babe, with a burning love inside.” — Four Seasons I needed to come back to the North Shore after running away to warmer climes to escape another winter. The ...