Duluth, MN Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

DULUTH , at the western extremity of Lake Superior 150 miles north of Minneapolis and St Paul, forms a long crescent at the base of the Arrowhead. Named for a seventeenth-century French officer, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, it cascades down from the granite bluffs surrounding Skyline Drive (an exhilarating thirty-mile route) to a busy harbor , shared with Superior, Wisconsin. Together these 'twin ports' constitute the largest inland port in the US. Originally the main cargo was fur; now it ships grain, lumber and ore to the Atlantic via the St Lawrence Seaway. In the 1980s, Duluth had a face-lift and … more »