outdoors

There's an underground river just south of Rochester! Did you know about this? Because we didn't.

If you need to get out of the house, these 6 hiking trails in Minnesota are either plowed or have packed snow, perfect for winter hiking.

You know when you see a melting snowbank in the spring, and it's dotted with dirt and debris? Some of those tiny black specs are actually snow fleas.

Sure, Minnesota has some great, remote places to check out the stars in the sky, but one park was just named one of the best places in the WORLD for stargazing.

Deer hunting is basically the holiday between Halloween and Thanksgiving in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Did you know that we have flying squirrels in Minnesota? It's really rare to spot one because they come out at night.

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.