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Duluth? Where the lakes thaw just long enough for the mosquitoes to
hatch? Where everybody talks funny like in the movie, 'Fargo'?
Locals don't mind these rumors; it keeps the riffraff out.
Duluth is Minnesota's largest city outside of the Minneapolis/St.
Paul area and stretches 26 miles along the North Shore of Lake
Superior. Outside Magazine, a national magazine targeting outdoor
audiences, named Duluth, Minnesota, to it's top ten outdoor towns in
the United States (2001). Communities were selected based on close
access to multiple outdoor activities, employment levels, housing
marketing, and intact cultural identity.
Duluth is most known for its rocky shoreline and steep inclines on
the largest of the Great Lakes which contains ten percent of the
world's fresh water. It boasts over 105,000 acres of green space
within city limits, 23 streams (12 of which have natural and
fishable trout populations), over 20 miles of cross country ski
trails, 900+ feet of vertical downhill skiing and is the gateway to
both the North Woods and the Boundary Water Canoe Area (BWCA).
It has spawned diehard paddlers, Olympic skiers, ultra runners,
award winning dog sled teams, and weather-be-damned! mountain
bikers.
“Take the ten best outdoorsy communities we found, explored and
scrutinized,” writes Outside Magazine correspondent Mike Grudowki,
“places where the miles of single track far exceed the miles of
six-lane beltway, where you can stroll or pedal to the farmers
market, where the arts scene doesn’t stop at the multiplex, where
you don’t have to count the number of garages from the corner to
tell which house is yours…Places that no one could mistake for
Anywhere.”
To read more, visit
Outside Magazine Online.
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