Minnesota Active and Adventure Vacations

Minnesota Active and Adventure Travel Guide

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Active and Adventure Guide
• Paddling
• Snow Sports
• Family Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping

Top Active and Adventure Destinations In Minnesota

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN
  

Travel Guides In Minnesota

• Minneapolis, MN
  • Family Guide
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide

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Fenske Lake on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota (James Randklev/Photographer's Choice/Getty)

Top Minnesota Active and Adventure Destinations

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area

Feature Articles

• Best Trips of 2001: Open-Air Classroom
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  Open-Air Classroom
• The Thrill of the Skill
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  Snow Sports
• All-American
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  Remote trips right here at home
• Minneapolis
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  IN THE WARMER MONTHS, Twin Cities denizens tumble out of their houses like snow melting off a roof. Unless you feel rejuvenated by the tangled web of training wheels, 20-foot dog leashes, and entwined lovers around the Minneapolis lakes, it's time to get away. Hear the wind blow through prairie grass, feel the river sand between your, and let the only sweat you encounter be your own.
• Wisconsin/Minnesota
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  Ya, Shore, You Betcha

Practical Advice

• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  
• A Whitewater Rafting Primer
  
• A Sea Kayaking Primer
  
• A Trekking Primer
  
• Be the Sag Wagon
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  How to pull off a bike tour on your own two wheels.

GORPTravel Trips

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  Minnesota's Great Northwoods: The Superior Trail Hiker
  Timberline Adventures
  from $1895, 6 days
  Conceived in the mid-1980's as a through hiking trail extending from Duluth to the Canadian border, often along the ridgeline overlooking Superior's...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Complete Gear Archives: Paddling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things paddling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Cycling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things related to cycling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things climbing.
• How I Came to Know and Love the Backcountry
  The Basics of Telemark Skiing

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Blitzing the Backcountry
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  Turn your winter fitness routine into a brand-new adventure
• The Rowbike
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  Video
• Saddle Up
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  Spring is here. Time to wipe the cobwebs off your bike, oil your chain, and kick your fitness into a new gear. Here's how.

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Attractions

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Hotels

Silver Rapids Lodge
459 Kawishiwi Tr.
Ely, MN Map

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Smitty's on Snowbank
14564 Snow Lodge Rod.
Ely, MN 55731 Map

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Bearskin Lodge
124 East Bearskin Rd.
Grand Marais, MN 55604 Map

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