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Travel Time: 90 minutes
Location: Grand Rapids, MN
Hours: Open Wed.-Fri., 10 am-4 pm, June-Aug.
Website:
http://www.visitgrandrapids.com/group_tours/attractions.html
45-minute tour of a working paper mill. |
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Travel Time: 90 minutes
Location: LaPorte, MN
Hours: Open seasonally: Tues.-Sat., 10 am- 5 pm; Sun.,
Noon-5 pm
Website:
http://www.forestedgewinery.com
Growers and bottlers, specializing in wines made from summer
fruits. Tours offered. |
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Travel Time: 120 minutes
Location: Alexandria, MN
Hours: Open daily year-round: 11 am-6 pm
Website:
http://www.carloscreekwinery.com
Carlos Creek Winery is MN's largest orchard and vineyard, with
20 acres of grapevines and 7,000 apple trees. World-recognized,
award-winning wines are fermented and bottled on the property.
Carlos Creek/Alexandria Farms is also one of MN's largest
purebred Arabian horse facilities. |
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Travel Time: 140 minutes
Location: Chisholm, MN
Hours: Open daily mid-June to mid-Sept., 9:30 am-5 pm
Website:
http://www.ironworld.com
A giant interpretive center perched atop the Glen iron mine, it
offers something for everyone: costumed interpreters, mining
equipment, Native American camps, trapper's cabins, mineral and
geology exhibits, ethnic foods and more. Take a trolley ride on
the Mesabi Railroad Trolley for a 2.5 MI. ride along the Glen
mine. |
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Travel Time: 150 minutes
Location: Duluth, MN
Hours: Open daily, May-Oct.: 9:30 am-4 pm; Nov.-Apr.,
Fri.-Sun., 11 am-2 pm
Website:
http://www.d.umn.edu/glen
Tour a 39-room Jacobean-style mansion, completed in 1908 and
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Grounds
include formal gardens, a carriage house with carriage
collection and gardener's cottage. |
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Travel Time: 150 minutes
Location: Calumet, MN
Hours: Open Memorial Day-Labor Day, 9:30 am-6 pm
Website:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/hill_annex_mine
Take the 90-minute trolley ride 500 feet down into the heart of
this once thriving iron ore mine that ceased operations in 1978.
The tour winds past huge mining machinery and company buildings.
Special fossil tours are available. |
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Travel Time: 150 minutes
Location: Duluth, MN
Hours: Tours Memorial Day - Labor Day, M-W & F, 9 am-3 pm
Website:
http://www.visitduluth.com
Tour a high-tech, world-class paper mill to see how modern paper
is made. |
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Travel Time: 180 minutes
Location: Hibbing, MN
Hours: Open mid-May - September, 9 am-5 pm
Website:
http://www.irontrail.org/Attractions/mining/Hull+Rust+Mahoning+Mine+View
Called the "Grand Canyon of the North," the mine is a National
Historic Landmark and is the largest open pit mine in the world.
The still-active mine is 3 miles long, 600 feet deep and
consists of 50 mines. Panoramic views can be viewed from the
observation deck on the north side of town. |
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Travel Time: 200 minutes
Location: Mountain Iron, MN
Hours: 218-748-7570
Website:
http://www.irontrail.org
USS/Minntac is the largest operating taconite plant in MN. Watch
37-cubic yard shovels load the 240-ton mining truck parked next
to the visitor center. |
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Travel Time: 210 minutes
Location: Eveleth, MN
Hours: 218-744-1940
Website:
http://www.irontrail.org/Attractions/mining/Leonidas+Overlook
The highest manmade point on the Iron Trail provides a panoramic
view of mining operations. While in Eveleth, take a side trip to
the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, displaying jerseys and memorabilia
of over 100 hockey greats and the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S.
Olympic Team. |
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Travel Time: 210 minutes
Location: Virginia, MN
Hours: 218-741-2344
Website:
http://www.irontrail.org/Attractions/mining/Mineview+in+the+Sky
View a 20-story overlook of the area's deepest mine pit. Have
your picture taken next to the 240-ton mining truck parked next
to the visitor center. |
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Travel Time: 240 minutes
Location: Soudan, MN
Hours: Open Memorial Day-Labor Day, 10 am-4 pm
Website:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/soudan_underground_mine
This is the home of MN's oldest and deepest underground iron
mine-27 levels. The 90-minute tour includes an elevator that
drops _ mile underground, two sets of spiral staircases and an
electric train ride to rival Disneyland. A self-guided tour
includes the drill shop, engine house, crusher and dry house.
Visitors center. |
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