Plan to get away for a weekend this fall on a drive to the Iron Range. You can get to these desirable destinations in less than a day's drive. For more ideas in planning your trip to this ...

For a southern Minnesota native, ... The Iron Range is an ATV world — we were just biking through it. ... our trail map labeled County Road 21 a "MnDOT Designated Bike Route" to Ely.

Surrounded by 320,000 acres of the Superior National Forest, with dozens of lakes and rivers, the Iron Range is a special place to enjoy nature's kaleidoscope of colors. With backdrops like the ...

Reporting from the mining towns of Chisholm, Hibbing and Virginia on Minnesota’s Iron Range March 30, 2025 Once a week, most weeks, the ground in Chisholm, Minn., shudders underfoot.

Up and running. The mines that are operational on the Iron Range stretch from Keewatin, where U.S. Steel has a taconite mine, to Babbitt, the site of Northshore Mining.

During World War II, northern Minnesota produced, by some estimates, 75% of the iron ore used in the war effort. That ore was made into steel that went to the factories that produced planes, tanks ...