Presenting WTIP: Bryan Hansel Bikepacks Northern Minnesota’s Border-to-Border Touring Route
A photographer from Grand Marais previews an upcoming DNR touring route. And the podcast team looks back on our favorite episodes of 2023!
Tag Archives: tourism
A Warm Welcome to Warmshowers
There are people who travel long distances by bike, and there are people who are willing to open their homes to those traveling by bike.
$100 Million for What?!
It has been publicized that Hennepin County is working on plans to build a “wishbone overlook” on the upper portion of Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River. The Star Tribune article states cost-estimates of $50-100 Million USD to build this project. I’m going to err on the side of the upper estimate, because at […]
A Camino De Minnesota?
In some ways, Christianity and other faiths created the concept of tourism. They created sacred sites and encouraged their followers to make pilgrimage trips to visit them. This created the need for food, lodging, souvenirs, and various other goods and services that form the backbone of modern tourism. My wife recently got a small grant […]
Tourism Urbanism in Park Rapids
A metro resident views tiny Park Rapids, Minnesota, a popular vacation getaway, through an urbanist lens — and finds much to admire!