About MNTRIP

MNTRIP is a set of planning guides for trips around Minnesota, starting with the North Shore of Lake Superior. Most travel writing tells you where to go. These guides cover what you need to know to actually go: what it costs, what needs a permit or a reservation, what's open in your season, and how far it is to the next stop.

How we make these guides

Every guide is built the same way:

1. Official sources first. Fees, rules, hours, distances and closures come from the agency that sets them: the Minnesota DNR, MnDOT, the Minnesota Historical Society, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service and county and city sites. Other sources are used only to fill a gap, and the guide says so.
2. Every claim is checked.Before a guide is published, each fact and number is re-checked against its source, conflicts between sources are called out in the text, and anything that can't be confirmed is left out.
3. Sources are listed. Each guide ends with the sources it relies on, and shows the date its facts were last checked.

Fees, hours and trail conditions change. Always check the official source linked in the guide before you go, especially for closures and reservations.

Photos

Photos are real photographs published under open licenses (Creative Commons or public domain), mostly from Wikimedia Commons. Each one is credited under the image with a link to its source and license.