Lake Superior

Sixty Thousand Acres Go Gold at Once: A Peak-Week Field Guide to the Porcupine Mountains

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The parking lot at Lake of the Clouds was full by 8:40 on a Saturday morning, and nobody in it seemed to mind waiting. We stood three deep at the rail in light gloves and September breath, watching a valley the size of a small city burn quietly in every direction — maple red, birch … Read more

Minnesota’s North Shore: Why the 154-Mile Drive From Duluth to Grand Portage Is the Midwest’s Best Road Trip

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There’s a moment on Minnesota’s Highway 61 — somewhere past Two Harbors, when the birch trees thin out and the lake opens up on your left like an inland sea — where you stop checking your phone. Not because you lost signal (though you will). Because there’s nothing on a screen that competes with 31,000 … Read more