Lake Washington Regional Park & Campground is a 166 acre park and campground located along nearly one mile of shoreline on Lake Washington near Kasota, or about 10 miles northeast of Mankato. The park currently provides its campers and day users with the opportunity to enjoy a variety of outdoor recreation activities.
A quiet-relaxed-family resort located at the end of Lilac Lane on Lake Victoria minutes from downtown Alexandria. Our fully furnished modern cottages and level grounds offer a great setting to relax. Also available for your enjoyment are swing sets and playset, basketball, volleyball, swimming beach, with raft and water trampoline, kayaks, paddleboats, paddle boards and canoe free for guests. Close to our resort are golf courses, tennis courts, bike trail, mini golf, go carts, and great shopping areas. Our resort offers a secluded, peaceful, relaxed setting on a well protected lake.
Visit our website to view our webcams; find information on area activities, attractions, golf and events; plus check availability and deals for lodging. Snowmobile trail conditions are posted and updated weekly in winter. Request a free brochure, maps, and other information on Lake Vermilion or view the digital brochure online.
Travel Information is available at the US Forest Service office at 320 N. Highway 53 in Cook and at the Depot Museum located at the west entrance off Hwy 169 in Tower.
Lake Vermilion is "The" premier lake in Minnesota Approximately 240 miles from the Twin Cities and 25 miles south of the Boundary Waters canoe area. In the 1940's the National Geographic Society declared Lake Vermilion one of the top ten most scenic lakes in the United States And it still is today. With its 40,000 acres of water, 365 islands and 1200 miles of shoreline, it stretches 40 miles across the heart of Minnesota's Arrowhead Region. Visit our website at www.lakevermilionchamber.com
According to the Minnesota DNR, all Soudan Underground Mine tours are suspended until further notice due to an extreme weather event in the summer of 2024. Park staff are working hard to reclaim the route and hope to be able to provide tours again this summer. Surface tours are still available and will run daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visit Duluth's Wild Side! Over 400 animals and 200 different species await you. Meet Kaya and Kermit, Angolan colobus monkeys born during the summer of 2013. Wave at Trouble, our most famous resident (Have you read the book "A Bear Named Trouble"?). Get up-close and personal with Lynnard, Harry and our other barnyard friends. See numerous endangered and threatened animals such as a snow leopard, Amur tiger, swamp monkey and more. Be sure to check out our daily animal enrichment schedule, designed to excite both animals and visitors alike. Open year round!
Veteran Owned Fishing launch/charter service and sightseeing cruises. 37' Sport Fisherman ("Rainbow's End") all fishing and safety equipment furnished. Located 13 miles up the North Shore from Duluth at the Knife River Marina and 7 miles from Two Harbors.
Fishing: departure times of 5 am to 7 am daily; sightseeing cruises: depart at 1 pm & 4 pm daily. A full time charter boat operation, open 7 days a week. This Charter Boat Captain has been in continuous operation since 1986.
Voted by USA Today as the "BEST Transportation Museum in America" The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is a family friendly destination for railroad enthusiasts and historians young and old.
The collection includes the world's most powerful steam locomotives (the Mallet), the first steam engine in Minnesota (the William A. Crooks), one of the nation's largest displays of dining car china, cabooses, freight cars, a railway post office and much more! The Museum is housed in the historic Union Depot in downtown Duluth, a building on the National Register of Historic Places.
Operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the most visited marine museum on the Great Lakes; exhibits and programs on upper lakes commercial shipping, Duluth Ship Canal and Aerial Bridge, three replica cabins and pilothouse from ships, two-story steam engine, 50 scale models and lots of interactive displays. 1,000-foot freighters pass within 200 feet of the building. Open daily throughout shipping season. Always FREE.
