A guided walk through a deep limestone cave near Harmony in the far southeast corner, complete with fossils, a wedding-chapel chamber, and a 60-foot underground waterfall.
Road trips · Minnesota
Minnesota road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Minnesota — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
Ride a clattering cage half a mile straight down into Minnesota's oldest, deepest iron mine, then a train nearly a mile out to the rock face, inside Lake Vermilion-Soudan State Park.
Out on the southwest prairie, Native carvers still quarry the soft red pipestone here by hand as they have for centuries — walk the short trail past Winnewissa Falls.
The second-oldest family-owned brewery in the country, tucked into a wooded estate in New Ulm where peacocks roam the gardens, with tours and a summer biergarten.
A 39-room lakefront mansion on Lake Superior in Duluth, beautifully preserved with 12 acres of gardens and a famously dark family backstory the guides now tell in full.
Out on a windswept red-quartzite ridge in far southwestern Minnesota, thousands of carvings stretch back as far as 7,000 years, with evening hours timed so low light makes the figures jump out.
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