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Lake Superior Iron Ranges The headframe for shaft #8, still in active use today. In the late 19th century, prospectors searching for gold in northern Minnesota discovered extremely rich veins of hematite at this site, often containing more than 65% iron. An open pit mine began operation in 1882, and moved to underground mining by 1900 for ...
Iron Range Off-Highway Vehicle State Recreation Area is a Minnesota state park located east of Lake Ore-be-gone in Gilbert, Minnesota. The recreation area consists of 36 miles (58 km) of trails on a 1,864-acre (754 ha) unit, all of which was local iron ore mining land until 1981. A 3,500-acre (1,400 ha) expansion of the recreation area is also ...
Cleary Lake Regional Park; Clifton E. French Regional Park; Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park; Crow-Hassan Park Reserve; Eagle Lake Regional Park; Elm Creek Park Reserve; Fish Lake Regional Park; Gale Woods Farm; Glen Lake Golf and Practice Center; Historic Murphy’s Landing; Hyland Lake Park Reserve; Lake Minnetonka Regional Park; Lake Rebecca ...
In 1870, Trout Lake Township, or 55 N Range 24 W of the 4th PM (principal meridian), was surveyed as part of the Public Land Survey System.According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 34.7 square miles (89.8 km 2), of which 30.5 square miles (79.1 km 2) is land and 4.1 square miles (10.7 km 2), or 11.91%, is water.
Minnesota's first attempt to create a state park came in 1885, when a 173-acre (70 ha) park was authorized to preserve Minnehaha Falls.The effort was delayed by legal appeals from the various landowners of the desired parkland, and by the time those were settled in favor of the state in 1889, Minnesota no longer had the money to purchase the land.
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota.Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of 10 acres (4.05 ha) or more. [1] The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. [2]
Recreational activities offered at the Indian Lake campground within the forest include camping, fishing, and a canoe route on the Cloquet River. The Superior National Forest is located immediately north of the Cloquet Valley State Forest. Saint Louis County Road 4 and County Road 44 are two of the main routes in the Cloquet Valley State Forest ...
Itasca State Park (/ aɪ ˈ t æ s k ə /) is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River.The park spans 32,690 acres (132.3 km 2) of northern Minnesota, and is located about 21 miles (34 km) north of Park Rapids, Minnesota and 25 miles (40 km) from Bagley, Minnesota.