Minnesota is home to one of the Midwest's best backpacking and thru-hiking destinations, the Superior Hiking Trail. An especially pretty part of it begins in Grand Marais, a charming lake town that ...

Augusta Lake is considered one of the dirtiest lakes in Minnesota due to high amounts of phosphorus. Residents say migrating cormorants are to blame.

Minnesota is home to lots of natural treasures, including more than 10,000 lakes and countless parks. But on the northeastern portion of the state lies America's largest lake, with a national treasure ...

Demand is especially strong for lake properties priced from $300,000 to $500,000, which he said is the new entry-level price-point. “That’s the sweet spot,” Gooden said.

Quarterdeck Resort’s stylish revamp is part of a boutique wave in Minnesota lake country. ... and there are 10 five-bedroom “lakeview lofts” and cabins.

The Shoreline Hotel opened on May 1 on Lake Minnetonka, in Spring Park, Minnesota. It has 27 rooms, a 32-slip marina, and a restaurant. It is the first hotel to open here in a century.

Birkholz was formerly a city planner with a focus on bikeway planning and worked for Stearns County when it developed the Lake Wobegon Trail. The trail turned 25 years old last year.

Several tribes have called the area home, most recently the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and remains periodically are found in the area, said the tribe’s police chief, Ken Washington.