Explore Minnesota More
Stories about the outdoor recreation experience in Minnesota.
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Latest Episodes
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 ...
The Northwest Angle: Adventure at the Top of Minnesota
You're on island time now. It just feels different. The Northwest Angle is a geographic oddity — the only place in the contiguous U.S. you can't reach without crossing an international border — and one of the most story-dense square miles in Mi...
Built to Last: Arctic Cat, Thief River Falls, and the People Who Wouldn't Quit
In a town of about 9,000 people in Minnesota's northwest corner, one company has shared space with the place for more than 60 years. This episode tells the story of Arctic Cat and Thief River Falls — a restless founder, a bankruptcy that impact...
