You don’t need a $5,000 vacation to feel like you escaped for winter hiking. In Northern Minnesota, particularly along... The ...

Devil’s Kettle Trail at Minnesota's Judge C.R. Magney State Park is the best hiking trail in the country, according to the 2025 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards. The two-mile round-trip hike in ...

If you want eco friendly activities Minnesota style, you don’t need a plane ticket or a fancy lodge. You... The post ...

What areas do you suggest to new hikers? We love to see people from all over getting out into nature at their own pace. Here are a few beginner-friendly recreation areas within driving distance of ...

CHATFIELD — After a scouting mission last summer to map out what he hoped would be part of the future Minnesota Driftless Hiking Trail, Marty Walsh knew the not so fun stuff was coming. It would ...

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, ...

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 ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. — The Superior Hiking Trail Association is setting out to plot the future of Minnesota’s most famous footpath, and they want your input along the way. From now through November, the ...

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, ...

Minnesota is poised to spend a record amount of money from state lottery proceeds next year — more than $100 million — to fund conservation efforts ranging from studying young, pregnant moose to ...

National forests teeming with possibilities. The toil of trail volunteers. Parks and trails close at hand. The Mississippi River's presence and allure. Above are some of the responses returned when, ...