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Grand Marais Arts Festival. This longstanding event is held in early July along Lake Superior's North Shore, in town, with over 70 local and regional artists, live music, and art demonstrations. It is hosted by the Grand Marais Art Colony. Summer and Winter Solstice Festivals, hosted by the North House Folk School. Le Grand Du Nord. This race ...
First sign for the Gunflint Trail in Grand Marais. County State-Aid Highway 12 (CSAH 12), also known as the Gunflint Trail, or County Road 12 (CR 12), is a 57-mile (92 km) paved roadway and National Scenic Byway in Cook County, Minnesota, that begins in Grand Marais and ends at Saganaga Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), near the U.S. border with Ontario.
Cook County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,600, [1] making it Minnesota's seventh-least populous county. Its county seat is Grand Marais. [2] The Grand Portage Indian Reservation is in the county.
Dec. 1—If you've never visited Grand Marais along Lake Superior's North Shore — go there, like, now. You won't regret it. Since moving to Minnesota two years ago, I had heard the North Shore ...
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The wilderness also includes the highest peak in Minnesota, Eagle Mountain (2,301 feet (701 m)), part of the Misquah Hills. [2] Located around the perimeter of the BWCAW are six ranger stations: in Cook, Aurora, Ely, Isabella, Tofte and Grand Marais. The two nearby communities with most visitor services are Ely and Grand Marais. [2]
The Lightkeeper's House, also known as the Cook County History Museum, is a historic building in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and was nominated for being "a significant survivor of the settlement along Minnesota's north shore during the last decades of the nineteenth century.
By the time it was built in 1933, Chik Wauk was one of well over a dozen such resorts in the area. It was built by Edwin Nunstedt, a Swedish immigrant who owned building companies in Grand Marais and Two Harbors, Minnesota. The lodge served as a store, resort office, restaurant, and lounge area for resort guests.