Martha Lueders
Simplicity. That’s what the Boundary Waters has offered many. Read more →
MPR News From our outstate correspondents
Get Out There
Michael Olson
Flooding has shifted some of the festivities this year, but Independence Day is expected to go off with a bang this year across Minnesota.
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Dan Kraker
A longtime owl researcher in Duluth has banded more than 400 Snowy Owls over the past four decades to learn more about their movements. Read more →
Elizabeth BaierSeveral downhill ski areas around Minnesota are open this weekend with limited runs. Good morning! It's waiting for you… pic.twitter.com/Hh59OJWb6r — Spirit Mountain (@spiritmtduluth) November 23, 2013 Cooler temperatures have given ski operators a chance to make snow and a number of areas are now open for business. “We’ve all been putting up with some Read more →
MPR News live: Join a chat with Jason Monday at 11a. Outfitter and guide Jason Zabokrtsky has emerged from two weeks in the wilderness after bushwhacking his way from the depths of Quetico Provincial Park, through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and into Ely, Minn. via the Old Cloquet Railroad line about 8 miles Read more →
If you think you had a rough start to your day, read this: “It was one of those mornings that started by putting on cold, wet boots and hiking through alder thickets at seemingly every turn. And then it started to snow again, and the wind howled, biting at me as it whipped in full Read more →
“The mystery lies beyond the trees where nobody goes.” Read more →
Meg Martin
The gates have opened. It’s Day One of the Great Minnesota Get-Together, and already the lists of fair must-dos are piling up: Eat the food on a stick, see a parade, watch a few animal babies being born, shake the hands of a few politicians, take in some free entertainment… But this year at the Read more →
Molly Bloom
Bike experts and bicyclists in MPR’s Public Insight Network share their top rides with us. Read more →
Nicole Oran
Explore the state’s oldest suburb. Read more →