Minnesota man circles Lake Superior, finding climbs, islands, waterfalls and parks ripe for discovery

A few trips in the 1970s to help build the Border Route Trail in the lake country between Minnesota and Canada sent a jolt of ...
Adirondack Explorer

Lapland Lake: A little bit of Finland in the southern Adirondacks

Since I cannot fly to Finland on a regular basis to obtain my happiness dose (my insurance probably would not pay for it), I escape to Lapland Lake, a tranquil oasis tucked in the mountains of the ...

Hawk's Nest estate on Lake Minnetonka snags $6.1M after years on market

The 22,000-square-foot home features a gym, sauna, indoor and outdoor pools, an elevator and more.

UP preserve includes Finnish cabin, old-growth forest. What to know

Jon and Christina Sarri donated 40 acres and a land swamp added 40 more to a new preserve in the Upper Peninsula.

80-acre preserve with historic Finnish cabin permanently protected in U.P. wilderness

The land features a restored dovetail log cabin originally built as a sauna on a Finnish farm in the nearby Keweenaw Peninsula.

Anderson: Growing up in south Minneapolis, fishing Lake Harriet, he headed north for an off-the-grid life in Alaska

With little money but a head full of dreams, Nick Blanco was determined to build a cabin out of ancient driftwood — if only ...