• Grand Portage National Monument
  Located on the magnificent shore and boreal forest of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota, Grand Portage National Monument preserves a vital headquarters of 18th, 19th and 20th century fur trade activity and Ojibwe heritage. The monument is enclosed within Grand Portage Indian Reservation, for centuries home to Ojibwe Indian families. Within a reconstructed palisade wall, the great hall and kitchen complex have been rebuilt. Nearby, a canoe warehouse houses the vessels, crafted from birch, cedar and spruce raw materials, essential for travel along east-west fur trade routes.
  
  
• Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
  This 72-mile river corridor through the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, metropolitan area is characterized by surprising diversity. Shallow and wide at the upper end, by the time the Mississippi reaches its confluence with the St. Croix River it has become a vast and powerful part of the largest inland navigation system on earth. Within the fifty-four thousand acre area, dozens of state and local parks provide outstanding recreational opportunities.
  
  
• Pipestone National Monument
  Pipestone National Monument is located in Pipestone, Minnesota, near the South Dakota border. Within the monument, there are pipestone (Catlinite) quarries, native tallgrass prairie, quartzite bluffs, and a creek with a waterfall.
  
  
• Voyageurs National Park
  The park lies in the southern part of the Canadian Shield, representing some of the oldest exposed rock formations in the world. This bedrock has been shaped and carved by at least four periods of glaciation. The topography of the park is rugged and varied; rolling hills are interspersed between bogs, beaver ponds, swamps, islands, small lakes and four. Located on the northern edge of Minnesota's border.
  
  

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