Explore Minnesota More
Stories about the outdoor recreation experience in Minnesota.
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Latest Episodes
Closing the gap: How Minnesota is opening its outdoors to everyone
Reaching a park’s parking lot isn’t the same as reaching its waterfall. This episode looks at how Minnesota became a national leader in outdoor accessibility and what’s next.Why it matters: For visitors with mobility disabilities,...
40 Years on the Cannon Valley Trail
The Cannon Valley Trail turns 40 this year. In this episode, we look at how a stretch of the old Chicago Great Western rail line along the Cannon River became one of southeastern Minnesota's favorite outdoor destinations. Neighbors who once wor...
Detroit Mountain - Basecamp for the Local Community
Detroit Mountain has been a ski area in Detroit Lakes since the 1940s — and when it went dark in 2004, the community had a hole it couldn't ignore. Roughly a decade later, about a thousand donors helped raise $12 million to rebuild it from the ...
The Mesabi Trail: Minnesota's 165-Mile Ride Across the Iron Range
After thirty years of construction, the Mesabi Trail is complete — 165 paved, traffic-separated miles from the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids to the edge of the Boundary Waters in Ely. We talk with two people who helped build it about what i...
Sugar Lake Leadership Lodge: Building Better Leaders in the Great Outdoors
Sugar Lake Lodge sits in the Sugar Hills near Grand Rapids, Minnesota — a property Abby Oxborough's family rebuilt from bankruptcy and rubble in the early '90s, drawing on generations of Minnesota hospitality roots. Today, Abby runs Leadership ...
