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Local
March 30, 2020
MnDOT plans major construction on Highway 61 between Grand Marais and the Canadian border over the next two years.

Anglers pondering whether to travel to fishing places where residents don't want visitors

Thousands of anglers across Minnesota and Wisconsin are having to decide whether to travel or stay home.
Local
March 30, 2020
Even on rainy, misty days, paddling in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario, provides an excellent summer getaway for Minnesota anglers and canoeists. If

Anderson: Shuttering of Canada-U.S. border has outdoors implications

Businesses and customers in both nations brace for a closed border.
Outdoors
March 30, 2020
Minnesota state parks such as Blue Mounds in southwest Minnesota will remain open during the coronavirus pandemic, but campgrounds and other lodgings

State park and rec area campgrounds and lodging closed, too

Parks remain open, but DNR made the move ahead of stay-at-home order.
Local
March 29, 2020
Mel Jacobson, left, an 85-year-old from Minnetonka who retreated to his remote cabin across the St. Croix River to wait out the Coronavirus pandemic,

Minnesotans hunker down at cabins to escape coronavirus

Despite concerns of year-round residents, some cabin owners head north to wait out the crisis
Duluth
March 28, 2020
The coastline of Park Point in Duluth in October 2019.

Two rescued after canoe capsizes in Lake Superior

The men had personal flotation devices on board but weren't wearing them, the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office said.
West Metro
March 28, 2020
A frozen Lake Minnetonka awaited a swarm of costumed golfers that would come with Saturday's festivities.

Ice-outs on Minnesota lakes about a week ahead of schedule

A quicker melt than last year could mean an earlier return to lake recreation.
Curious Minnesota
March 27, 2020
Despite Minnesota’s nickname, the Land of 10,000 Lakes actually has more than 14,000 lakes.

Your top questions about Minnesota lakes answered

If Minnesotans love one thing, it's their lakes. We did some research to answer your five most frequent questions about Minnesota's cherished bodies of water.
Local
March 27, 2020
The walking path at Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Minn. was full of people out for fresh air on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. ] RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER &

Minneapolis to close some parkways so runners, walkers can spread out

The Park Board is expecting to close other parkways, but hasn't said which ones.
Outdoors
March 27, 2020
Tony Jones showed Albert some tenderness, knowing this is their last hunt together at Caribou Gun Club in Le Sueur March 10, 2020.

A final pheasant hunt was part of a poignant Minnesota goodbye

Albert the Lab was calm, easy going, a fierce hunter -- everything.
Local
March 27, 2020
Golfers hit Stonebrooke Golf Club in Shakopee Thursday. The course was open with guidelines on how to stay in compliance with social distancing, but i

Playing through? Golf group wants courses open during stay-at-home order

Golfers played Thursday in Shakopee and New Prague, which remained open while others were shut down. The stay-at-home order goes into effect this weekend.
Outdoors
March 26, 2020
Abdi Bile, who is a running legend of sorts in his country of Somalia, has found himself planted in Minneapolis through his ties to Mayor Frey. Bile i

Somali running legend helps Loppet reach more young people of color

Friendship between Abdi Bile, a track legend from Somalia, and Mayor Jacob Frey was a spark.
Local
March 26, 2020
FILE-Wisconsin officials are urging residents not to travel to this weekend's Brule River steelhead fishing opener.

Stay home, steelheaders: Wisconsin DNR urges no travel for Brule opener

"We are encouraging anglers to fish water bodies in their communities."
Local
March 26, 2020
WhoÌs watchinÌ who? A school of crappies draw a curious crowd inside the TravelinÌ Fish Tank at the 67th Annual No

COVID-19 upends Minneapolis sports show in a first since 1933

Even World War II and Pearl Harbor couldn't cancel the Northwest Sportshow. Still, many connected understand.
Outdoors
March 26, 2020
Much of the work of the woodchuck is beneficial to the greater wildlife community.

Woodchuck, aka the groundhog, hibernates nearly six months at a time

The woodchuck is the largest member of the squirrel family.
Outdoors
March 26, 2020
Avalanche cabin #1, for Outdoors Weekend.

There was peace at the old cabin in western Wisconsin and its 16 pines

"We were able to buy the place from two local brothers who had inherited it from a relative who was an 'old-timer.' "
Local
March 26, 2020
Social distancing to the max, it's relaxing to have private time with the river. (Dennis Anderson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS) ORG XMIT: 1615874

What does 'stay at home' mean for life in Minnesota's outdoors?

In places such as Red Wing, where spring walleye fishing already is booming on the Mississippi River, the mental health benefits already are obvious.
Outdoors
March 26, 2020

Currents: Keith Myrmel, map-maker and hiker

What outdoors people are doing, reading, listening to, and more.
Outdoors
March 25, 2020

What are your outdoors questions?

What do you want to know about the Minnesota outdoors in light of the coronavirus?
Local
March 24, 2020
As the ice melts off the northern edge of Minnesota and the walleye begin their run to bite everything they can to fatten up before spawning season, d

'Walleye capital' Baudette, county close boat ramps to Rainy River amid crisis

Closures are attempt to keep coronavirus out of the border region.
Outdoors
March 24, 2020
Bob Timmons, left, worked with Aidan Jones to retrieve a canoe that floated away from the campsite during the five-day trip in the BWCA.

Star Tribune outdoors project takes first place in national contest

A Star Tribune series about a five-day adventure in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been named the best sports project in the nation
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