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The Paul Bunyan State Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail in north-central Minnesota, United States, running between the cities of Baxter/Brainerd and Bemidji. It is named after the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan of American folklore. [1] The route was part of the Burlington Northern Railroad lines abandoned in 1983. The trail covers a ...
The Paul Bunyan State Trail: One of the longest paved trails in the U.S., stretching over 120 miles. The Root River Trail: A scenic 42-mile trail running through limestone bluffs and dense forests. The Mesabi Trail: Covering over 135 miles, this trail connects the cities of Grand Rapids and Ely.
Many cities through which the trail passes sell Paul Bunyan trinkets and novelty items. The Bemidji Blue Ox Marathon (started in 2013) runs along the Paul Bunyan State Trail, around Lake Bemidji and past the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues. [34] The Bemidji statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe, the blue ox, appear in the Fargo television ...
From Bemidji, the MRT heads southeast along the Paul Bunyan Trail, a state-developed rail-trail conversion. This 100-mile-long (160 km) paved trail extends from Bemidji to Brainerd. From Brainerd, the MRT follows county roads, some with marked bike lanes and some with paved shoulders, through the cities of Little Falls and St. Cloud.
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A fiberglass Paul Bunyan statue stood at 1471 Rocky Creek Road, just 10 minutes away from the giant cowboy at the Phillips 66 Gas Station on Hartley Bridge Road. ... While many Google reviews ...
The trail was originally part of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, originally built as the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad and later part of the Northern Pacific Railway. The trail is named after Willard Munger , a Minnesota state legislator who devoted his legislative career to trail development and environmental protection from 1954 ...
Strollers at Paul Bunyan Land. The park, originally known as Paul Bunyan Center, was founded in 1950 by Sherm Levis. It was built around the statue of Paul that Levis and Roy Kuemicheal had purchased the previous year from the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, which constructed them for an exhibit at the Chicago Railroad Fair. [1]