outdoors

Salt Lake, right on the border of South Dakota, is a rare sight in Minnesota: it's the only saltwater lake in the entire state of Minnesota.

We forgot our coffee maker when we were camping way out in the North woods. With a little bit of ingenuity, we came up with a pretty good hack.

There is a massive, 60-foot magnetic rock in Grand Marais, MN along the Magnetic Rock Trail.

My wife and I heard it this weekend when we were having some coffee on our deck. It's a sure sound of late-summer here in southeast Minnesota: It's the buzzing of the cicadas.

It's almost the law in Minnesota that you fire up the grill as much as you can during the summer, but you'll spend more to do here than in other states.

It's been in the works for several years, but the new St. Croix Crossing Bike Trail Loop project in Stillwater-- including the famous Lift Bridge-- has been completed.

If you're looking to get out and enjoy the great outdoors and you don't want to turn into one big mosquito bite, here's some good news from the Minnesota DNR.

The sand left behind from this old lake looks and feels just like any other beach sand in Minnesota.

If you have a tree or plant with galls and want to stop them from forming, timing is everything.

Few things ruin a good time outdoors in the summer in Minnesota than getting all bitten up by mosquitoes. Here's why they might like you better-- and how you can keep them away.