Como Park Zoo & Conservatory: Free Family Joy in St. Paul
Some of the best things in family life really are free. Como Park Zoo & Conservatory has welcomed St. Paul families without charging admission since...
Month : October 2026
St. Anthony Main and the Riverfront: Where Minneapolis Was Born
Before there was Minneapolis, there was St. Anthony — a lumber town that grew up beside the only waterfall on the Mississippi. Its Main Street...
Mall of America for Families: Nickelodeon Universe, SEA LIFE and More
Think of Mall of America as the Twin Cities’ indoor amusement capital that happens to have 500 stores attached. Under its vast roof in Bloomington,...
Minnesota Zoo: A Wild Day Out in Apple Valley
Five minutes from the Mall of America, the Minnesota Zoo spreads 485 acres of forest and meadow where animals roam habitats built for them, not...
Stone Arch Bridge: Minneapolis’s Golden Path Over the Mississippi
Built in 1883 for James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway, the Stone Arch Bridge curves across the Mississippi on 23 graceful stone arches — the...
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: The Spoon, the Cherry and 60 Works of Joy
Every city deserves a symbol as joyful as this one: a 1,200-pound cherry balanced on a giant spoon that sprays water into a pond. Claes...
Spirits of Summit Avenue: Ghost Stories Among St. Paul’s Gilded Age Mansions
By 1890, some forty millionaires lived along St. Paul’s Summit Avenue — and the local legend is that a few of them never left. Spirits...
Minneapolis–Saint Paul Pedicab Tour: The Twin Cities at Exactly the Right Speed
Part tour, part joyride: a pedicab is the Twin Cities at exactly the right speed. This personalized pedicab tour rolls through Minneapolis and Saint Paul...
Minneapolis Local Bar Tour With Tastings: Neighborhood History, One Great Drink at a Time
To really know Minneapolis, pull up a barstool. This local bar tour pairs hand-selected drinks and tastings with the history of the neighborhoods between them...
Sinister Sins & Shadows: St. Paul’s Haunted Mansions Ghost Tour
St. Paul’s mansions have manners — and secrets. Sinister Sins & Shadows leads about a mile through the capital’s most haunted and historically rich streets,...
