LAKE FLORIDA, MINN. — In 1924, Bob Dickerson’s great-grandfather went on a fishing trip. His doctor had told him he’d breathe better if he spent some time on Minnesota’s lakes, and so it was that he ...

It’s one of the longest drives a city dweller can make and still be in Minnesota. First, four hours up the interstate and along the rugged North Shore, deep into the Arrowhead. At Grand Marais, you ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. The announcement earlier this month of the sale of Cragun’s Resort inspired an ...

The announcement earlier this month of the sale of Cragun’s Resort inspired an outpouring of nostalgia in the press. The Cragun family has owned the resort on Gull Lake north of Brainerd for 85 years, ...

Quarterdeck Resort on Gull Lake has embraced the sleek aesthetic of tiny vacation homes — clean lines, black exteriors with honey-toned wood, floor-to-ceiling windows — and scaled it way up in a ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - When his father started Valhalla Resort in 1929, Len Grotnes was just 9 years old, but he remembers hauling the rocks and peeling the logs used to build the resort's eight ...