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Recipe Box: Trail Mix, You Don’t Need a Hike to Savor Healthy Snacks

Trail mixes date back to the pre-colonial era when indigenous people created portable, nutritious, lightweight foods that didn’t need to be cooked, could handle any weather and stored well for a long time. Read more

Cool Wave Mug

"Live Superior" with our new ceramic mug. Read more

Tree to Shining Tree: A Boreal Expert’s Planting Primer

Plan now how to plant a tree that will thrive long into the future. Read more

August / September 2022

With our special Bring It Home to the Lake section with Home Dreams, Affordable Housing, a Market Snapshot and a list from every shore of New to Discover things to do & see, celebrating Terrace Bay at 75, dropping in on Calumet Theatre and much more. Read more

Features

PAUL SUNDBERG

Rockin' the Rift, The Billion-Year-Old Split that Made Us

Lake Superior was almost an ocean, not just a sweetwater sea. Read more

Jul 30, 2018 3:18 PM Konnie LeMay The Lake

How Did You Get Here? A Naturalist’s View of Isle Royale

Larry Stone

How Did That Get Here? A Naturalist’s View of Isle Royale

By air, by water or by ice, it’s fascinating to imagine how such a diversity of seemingly fragile organisms came to colonize the largest island on the world’s largest freshwater Lake. Read more

Apr 3, 2017 12:00 AM Emily M. Stone Natural World

Three-Fingered Reilly

Veteran surfmen on Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast always made it a point to teach the new men the gory details of the ghost of Three-Fingered Reilly. They wanted them to know that when they walked the lonely night patrols, they were not alone! Read more

Oct 13, 2016 10:44 AM Frederick Stonehouse Maritime

Duluth Cargo Connect

Going Intermodal

A recent addition to the Duluth waterfront creates an international link via rail from the East, West and Gulf coasts. Read more

Sep 22, 2017 2:19 PM Konnie LeMay Maritime

Francis M. Carroll Collection

Drawing a Line in the Water

Did a bad map give Isle Royale & the NW Angle to the U.S.? Read more

Oct 5, 2017 3:29 PM Francis M. Carroll Lake Superior

BRYAN HANSEL

Rescuing The Rock, A Volunteer Movement to Save a Lighthouse

Maybe it’s the isolation, the endless battle against wind and waves, or the tales sheltered within. Whatever the allure, I’m drawn to lighthouses. And I have a favorite. Read more

Jul 30, 2018 3:17 PM Deborah J. Mann Lake Superior

In the Duluth Skywalk 109 W. Superior Street

Aids to help you find your way around Lake Superior and the region.

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