Why Visit Minneapolis?

Information About The City of Minneapolis
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About Minnesota
Capital: St. Paul
Population: 5.2 million
Largest City: Minneapolis

Minnesota boasts more than 450 golf courses, 66 state parks, 17,000 miles of snowmobile trails, cross country ski trails, the largest and highest downhill ski area in the Midwest, hiking trails and a full range of campground and resort choices.

• Minnesota's national parks and recreational areas include the big waters of Voyageurs National Park, as well as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) - an expanse of lakes and forest stretching for 150 miles along the northeast border of Minnesota. As part of Superior National Forest, the BWCA is federally protected as a wilderness preserve, with all but a few lakes designated as paddle-only.
• Minneapolis and St. Paul feature some of the country's finest theaters and museums, including the Guthrie Theater, the Children's Theater Company, the Fitzgerald Theater (where Garrison Keillor hosts "A Prairie Home Companion"), the Walker Art Center, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. In addition, the Orpheum and Historic State Theaters regularly feature touring Broadway productions.
• Families can enjoy an outing at Valleyfair family amusement park or at The Park at MOA, the largest indoor amusement park in the nation at the Mall of America.
• At the Minnesota Zoo, hundreds of animals roaming in large, naturalistic environments. Around the state, you'll find the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn., Grand Rapids' Forest History Center, or the underground mysteries of Preston's Mystery Cave and the Soudan Underground Mine.
• The Mall of America is the nation's largest retail and entertainment complex, featuring more than 520 specialty stores as well as Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Nordstrom and Sears. Other Minnesota malls include the four "Dales," including Edina's Southdale, the nation's first fully-enclosed, climate-controlled shopping center, built in 1956. Stillwater, Minn. and St. Paul's Grand Avenue offer shopping on a smaller, but still unique, scale.
• Minneapolis' famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside.
• As the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," Minnesota got its nickname from the fact that it contains more than 10,000 lakes throughout the state. It is also referred to as the "North Star State."