Outdoor Duluth Facts

129 municipal parks totaling 3,264 acres, plus a whole lot more!

• Two 27-hole golf courses
• 41 tennis courts
• 29 baseball/softball fields
• 22 neighborhood recreation centers
• 11 senior centers
• 45 miles of snowmobile trails
• 44 kilometers of groomed cross-country ski trails
• 8 self-guided hiking trails
• Keene’s Creek Dog Park
• Regional zoo
• Dozens of rivers and creeks within the city
• Secluded waterfalls throughout town
• Hartley Park is 975 acres; Barton Peak Forest Park is 2,775 acres. By comparison, New York’s Central Park is just 860 acres
• Rock-climbing opportunities throughout the city
• Home to the North Shore Scenic Drive, designated a National All American Road
• 30-mile scenic drive follows ancient shoreline 600 feet above the city
• Abundance of wildlife; including bear, deer and moose within city limits
• Fishing opportunities: salmon, lake trout, sturgeon, walleye, other big-water fish, plus the annual “smelt run.”
• International sculpture garden features works from sister cities in Sweden, Russia, Canada and Japan
• Rose garden blooms with more than 40,000 roses
• Enger Tower overlooks the city and was dedicated by Crown Prince Olav of Norway
• Park Point beach is one of the world’s longest natural sand bar, jutting seven miles into Lake Superior
• Rated by Golf Digest (July ’98) as first in the nation for quality and accessibility in public golf
• Recognized by the Audubon Society, Hawk Ridge acts as a “funnel” for tens of thousands of migratory hawks, eagles and other birds of prey
• Some of the most vertical downhill skiing in the Midwest

Gateway to Lake Superior’s scenic north shore:

• 2.5-hour drive to the Canadian border
• Split Rock lighthouse
• Gooseberry Falls State Park
• Tettegouche State Park

One-hour drive from the Iron Range:

• Largest open-pit mine in the world
• Supplied the iron that built the nation

Just over one-hour drive to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness/Quetico Canadian Provincial Park:

• Thousands of acres of untouched wilderness
• Much of the area is accessible only by canoe and portage