Minnesota — Land of 10,000 Lakes

A Working Guidebook for the Road

Eleven thousand eight hundred forty-two lakes. Two major cities. Three indigenous nations. One Boundary Waters wilderness. A road that runs from a Mississippi sandbar to the Canadian shore.

Driving America Vol. 3 is the working travel guide to Minnesota — the Twin Cities, Duluth, the North Shore, Bluff Country, the Iron Range, and the wilderness up north. Written for readers who want a real opinion, not a tourist brochure.

What's inside:

• Twelve in-depth chapters: Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Duluth, Two Harbors, Grand Marais, Stillwater, Rochester, Winona — each with verified addresses, telephone numbers, operating hours, and price ranges for restaurants, hotels, and attractions.

• Four special chapters on the people and places that define the state: the Ojibwe Nation, the Dakota Nation, the Boundary Waters & Voyageurs wilderness, and the Iron Range.

• Honest Take boxes in every destination chapter — what's worth your time, what isn't, when to go, when to skip.

• A Part III planning toolkit: detailed itineraries from a three-day weekend to a ten-day full-state route, driving distances between all major destinations, month-by-month weather guidance, packing lists by season, budget tiers, and an essential safety chapter covering Lake Superior, winter driving, wildlife, and backcountry travel.

• Carol M. Highsmith photographs throughout, drawn from her public-domain archive at the Library of Congress.

• Land Acknowledgment, cultural protocols for visiting tribal lands, and tribal museums and ceremonies open to respectful visitors.

The Driving America series is written for people who want to drive somewhere interesting, eat somewhere unforgettable, sleep somewhere they'll remember, and know honestly what's worth their time. Verified. Researched. Unafraid to say when a place is not worth the trip.

Volume 1 (Iowa) and Volume 2 (South Dakota) are also available. Volume 4 (North Dakota) is forthcoming.