Parks & green space in the Twin Ports

18 Oakes Park is the city park at 1725 Oakes Avenue, two blocks west of Tower Avenue and a short walk south of the downtown commercial core (City of S...

Amnicon Falls State Park is about 10 miles east of Superior, where the Amnicon River drops through a series of falls and rapids over red sandstone alo...

Bardon Peak is the overlook on West Skyline Parkway above Duluth's Smithville neighborhood, and it offers one of the best views of the St. Louis River...

Barker's Island is not a natural island. It was built up in the 1890s out of material dredged from Superior Bay so that larger ships could reach the h...

Bayfront Festival Park is Duluth's outdoor event ground, on the harbor side behind the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. It is a large open lawn...

Billings Park sits on the St. Louis Bay shoreline at the western end of Superior, with walking trails along the water, a boat launch, picnic areas, an...

Black Beach is the shoreline park below Silver Bay, and its striking dark sand is a byproduct of mining: the colour comes from taconite tailings dumpe...

Brighton Beach, officially Kitchi Gammi Park, is the cobble-stone shoreline park at Duluth's northeastern edge, just past the mouth of the Lester Rive...

Burlington Bay Campground is the City of Two Harbors' own campground and lakefront park, sitting directly on Lake Superior at Highway 61 and Park Road...

Central Park is the city park at 717 6th Avenue East, in the Superior neighborhood that takes its name (City of Superior, Parks, Recreation and Forest...

Chambers Grove Park is the riverside park at the heart of Fond du Lac, Duluth's oldest and westernmost community, on the St. Louis River at 13404 High...

Chester Park runs about 60 acres of forest and creek gorge up the hillside between the university corridor and the East End, following Chester Creek f...

The Cloquet Forestry Center is the University of Minnesota's research and teaching forest on the edge of Cloquet, a large managed tract of pine and mi...

Congdon Park is a wooded ravine park built around Tischer Creek as it drops toward Lake Superior through the neighborhood that shares its name. The la...

Enger Park sits on the hillside above downtown Duluth, and its stone observation tower is one of the two or three images most people carry of the city...

Esko does not have a conventional municipal park system, because Esko is not a municipality. What it has instead is a school campus that functions as...

Fichtner Park at 5255 Maple Grove Road is Hermantown's main athletic complex and, in practice, its town square. The site carries baseball diamonds, th...

Flood Bay is a small state wayside on Lake Superior about two miles northeast of Two Harbors, and it is the best-known agate hunting beach on this str...

The Fond du Lac State Forest covers a large area west and southwest of Cloquet, a working landscape of managed timber, wetland, lakes, and forest road...

Gary New Duluth Park is the central amenity of Duluth's far west end, sitting at 801 101st Avenue West directly beside Stowe Elementary. For a neighbo...

Gooseberry Falls is the gateway park of the North Shore and consistently one of Minnesota's most-visited state parks, about 13 miles northeast of Two...

Grassy Point is the point of land reaching into the St. Louis Bay at the southern edge of Duluth's Irving neighborhood, and it gives that neighborhood...

Hammond Park is the city park at 1920 Hammond Avenue, southeast of the downtown core (City of Superior, Parks, Recreation and Forestry, accessed 2026-...

Hartley Park is Duluth's urban wilderness: roughly 660 acres of woods, ponds, rock outcrops, and trail sitting above the hill in the Woodland neighbor...

Hawk Ridge sits on the ridgeline above east Duluth, where Skyline Parkway runs along the top of the hill. Its reputation rests on geography: migrating...

Indian Point Park occupies the St. Louis River frontage at the southern edge of Duluth's Norton Park neighborhood, and it is one of the few city-opera...

Irving Park and Playfield is the neighborhood park for Duluth's Irving neighborhood, with ball fields, a playground and open playfield space on flat W...

Jay Cooke State Park protects the St. Louis River gorge in Thomson Township, Carlton County, where the river drops through a spectacular set of rapids...

Keene Creek Park protects more than 80 acres of creek corridor in the southeast corner of Hermantown, off Okerstrom Road, with a half mile of paved tr...

Knife River Marina sits at the mouth of the Knife River and provides the principal public Lake Superior boat access between Duluth and Two Harbors, wh...

Lake Place Park is the park built on the deck over Interstate 35 in downtown Duluth, and it is the single piece of infrastructure that keeps the freew...

The Lake Superior Zoo sits at 72nd Avenue West and Grand Avenue, inside Duluth's Fairmount neighborhood, with Kingsbury Creek running through the grou...

Leif Erikson Park is the formal front lawn of Duluth's east side: terraced grass running down to the Lake Superior shoreline off London Road, with the...

Lester Park is the anchor of far east Duluth, holding more than nine miles of hiking and mountain bike trail on the ground between Amity Creek and the...

Lighthouse Point is the historic core of Two Harbors, a public waterfront at Agate Bay holding the 1892 Two Harbors Light Station, the oldest continuo...

Lincoln Park is the creek gorge park that gives the neighborhood its name, running along Miller Creek as it drops off the hillside toward the harbor....

Magney-Snively sits at the western end of Skyline Parkway above Spirit Mountain and protects one of the largest remaining stands of mature sugar maple...

McQuade Road Safe Harbor sits at the northeastern edge of Duluth, at the point where Congdon Boulevard and the city limits both end and the North Shor...

Nemadji Golf Course is a 36-hole public facility at 5 North 58th Street East on Superior's east side, managed by KemperSports. Both courses carry four...

The Park Point Recreation Area sits at the far end of Minnesota Avenue, at the tip of the developed portion of the world's longest freshwater sandbar....

Pattison State Park sits about 13 miles south of Superior on WI 35, and its 1,400 acres hold Big Manitou Falls, where the Black River drops 165 feet t...

Pine Valley is Cloquet's winter sports complex, carrying cross-country ski trails, ski jumps, and a tubing hill (City of Cloquet, accessed 2026-08-13)...

Pinehurst Park is one of Cloquet's principal city parks, carrying youth baseball and softball, a playground, and picnic facilities (City of Cloquet, a...

Portman Square is the everyday park for Lakeside and Lester Park, the one that carries the neighborhood's youth sports rather than its scenery. Ball f...

Proctor's municipal park system is small and practical, built around ball fields, a soccer field, a playground and pavilion, and the gazebo grounds at...

Rose Road Fields at 5676 Rose Road holds three softball diamonds, a playground, a half-court basketball surface, accessible walks, and paved parking....

Skyline Parkway is the ridge road that runs the length of Duluth, following the ancient shoreline of glacial Lake Duluth several hundred feet above th...

Spirit Mountain is Duluth's ski hill, rising above the St. Louis River valley at the western end of the city. It carries 22 downhill ski trails in win...

Split Rock Lighthouse stands on a cliff above Lake Superior about 20 miles northeast of Two Harbors, and it is the most photographed structure in Minn...

Stebner Park at 4860 Maple Grove Road is Hermantown's soccer park and the trailhead for the Boulder Trail section of the Hermantown Connector Trail Sy...

The Superior Ice Arena at 1015 Oakes Avenue is the city's indoor rink, carrying public skating, youth and adult hockey, and figure skating through the...

The Superior Municipal Forest covers more than 4,400 acres inside the Superior city limits, which the city describes as one of the largest municipally...

Tettegouche State Park sits immediately northeast of Silver Bay and, at roughly 9,300 acres, is one of the largest and most dramatic parks on Minnesot...

Thomson Township provides the local park and recreation facilities serving Esko, the community of Thomson, and the rural area between Cloquet and the...

Veterans Park is Cloquet's civic gathering park, used for memorial observances, community events, and parish and organizational gatherings including Q...

The W.R. Bagley Nature Area is the smaller and quieter of the two woodland preserves that anchor Duluth's above-the-hill east side, the other being Ha...

Wade Bowl Park is the city park at 1228 Clough Avenue, east of the Tower Avenue core (City of Superior, Parks, Recreation and Forestry, accessed 2026-...

Wade Stadium is West Duluth's ballpark, a brick municipal stadium that has carried baseball in this part of the city for generations and is now home t...

Webster Dream Park is the city park at 5718 Tower Avenue, at the far southern end of the Tower Avenue corridor (City of Superior, Parks, Recreation an...

Wisconsin Point is a 229-acre park on one of the longest freshwater sandbars in the world, with about 2.75 acres of developed beach and several miles...