Grand Forks, ND Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

GRAND FORKS sits eighty miles north of I-94, right next to Minnesota, a mere 75 miles south of the Canadian border. Even before its foundation a century ago, fur traders had used the area to rest and barter during their travels between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. It's a small, friendly, outdoorsy city, with nineteen parks and several tree-lined avenues of fine homes. Furious construction has rebuilt the downtown area, ravaged in the 1997 floodwaters. But the disaster shook investors' confidence and most of the new buildings lie empty, save for their "for lease" signs posted across the … more »