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A Dream Destination

With four-season sporting opportunities and an endless variety of lakes, rivers, trails, gorges and sheer rock faces, living here is like being in a vacationland all year long.

Northeastern Minnesota alone has 13 state parks, 14 state forests, Voyageurs National Park, the Superior and Chippewa National Forests, and the incomparable Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. And Northwestern Wisconsin offers yet more outdoor fun with spectacular places like the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

The wilderness even extends into Duluth and the smaller towns where Duluth Clinic maintains regional clinics. With traffic jams measured in seconds (when you can even find one), it takes no time at all to get out to hiking trails, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, or fishing and water sports on any of the hundreds of area lakes. On summer weekends, the road from Minneapolis/St. Paul is clogged with eager vacationers—but you'll already be here.

Voyageurs National Park