So you are going to Duluth?
Duluth is like … a mini San Francisco (lots of hills and a bay city) … but colder. Duluth has some killer breweries.
Duluth is thriving if you know where to look.
Here are my recommendations…
- Bent Paddle Brewing – Great beer. Small and new in a sparse area of the city, but fun atmosphere.
- Fitger’s Brewhouse. Probably Duluth’s oldest brewery and hotel. A classic. Fun brewery tour.
Canal Park Brewing company. Cool dining space right on the water.
- PortLand Malt Shoppe – View of lake superior from the bluffs. Open April through October.
- Lief Ericson Park and Rose Garden – Walk here from the PortLand Malt Shoppe. Great for stunning views of the lake. A long narrow park on the bluffs with lots of walking trails.
- Canal Park Area – Not a park (might be a park around there but I have not seen it) per se, but where the action is in Duluth. Lost of shops, restaurants and check out the Lift Bridge where the ships come in.
- Vitta Pizza – Right in Canal Park. Great brick oven pizza at a good price. Giant framed posters of Italian movie stars will watch you eat.
- Gooseberry Falls – Big scenic waterfalls, some fun hiking trails. A few miles North of Duluth on the coast.
- Electric Fetus records – Since 1968, waving the music indie store banner in Minnesota.
- Pattison State Park – Right across of Duluth in Superior, Wisconsin. The highest waterfalls in Wisconsin and the fourth highest waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains.
- Jay Cooke State Park – The swinging bridge. See below.
- Canada is close. Thunder Bay anyone?
- Grand Marais – Fun, touristy town North of Duluth, worth day trip.
- Boundary waters – Not too far from here.
- Tofte – Cool little town if you want a more small-townish place to stay. Lots of cabins to rent around here.
- New Scenic Cafe – The place to eat of you are a foodie and have some cash.
- Glensheen – Giant mansion with a fun tour. There is quite a backstory here but I will let you Google that if you don’t already know.
- Bob Dylan was born there.
- It is on Lake Superior, the site of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the song that goes with it.
- Burrito Union – Fresh and creative burritos and atmosphere in downtown Duluth.
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