Outdoors

Outdoor Activities

Outdoors

Cyclists say new guardrails on Mendota Bridge are dangerously low

card image

Recent construction on the historic bridge lowered the guardrails to 42 inches.

Outdoors

Get ready to watch majestic bald eagles on a new Minnesota EagleCam

Three hatchlings are seen Sunday morning in an EagleCam screen grab.

News & Politics

Minneapolis is ready to design the Northside Greenway. Do residents want it?

card image

Most Read

Colleges

Friday incident led to Joel Johnson's resignation at St. Thomas

Duluth

Fatal hit-and-run charge filed against local DFL leader in northern Minnesota

Gophers

Injured leading scorer watches Gophers women’s basketball team win without her

Gophers

Four-star men’s basketball target chooses Gophers over USC

More from Outdoor Activities

Outdoors

Minnesotans, you’re doing it wrong: What experts say about dressing for the cold

Dressing to stay warm doesn’t have to be expensive or hard. Here are some tips.
November 18, 2024
Josh Sweet program and facility specialist at Three Rivers Park District and his wife Jill led a Valentine Snowshoe walk at the New Prague Golf Club on Sunday. ] CARLOS GONZALEZ cgonzalez@startribune.com - February 14, 2016, New Prague, MN, Valentine Snowshoe. Enjoy a casual snowshoe hike through the winter woods with your special someone, Three Rivers Park District, New Prague Golf Club
Twin Cities

Hiking group for Muslim women breaks barriers as hundreds flock to the outdoors

A Minneapolis woman created her own hiking group and leads them on state and national hikes, and camping trips.
November 16, 2024
Outdoor Activities

Anderson: Fired for drunken driving, DNR waterfowl specialist cites hallucinations

Steve Cordts, a respected DNR duck and goose manager for the last 20 years, wants his job back.
AuthoredDennis Anderson
November 16, 2024
Greater Minnesota

A Winona professor dreams of new ways to observe the stars

Astronomer Adam Beardsley recently received $500,000 to design a radio observatory in the Winona area.
November 16, 2024
This undated photo provided by NASA shows an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing a giant star cluster in the Constellation Carina, about 20,000 light years from Earth. Friday, April 24, 2015, marks the 25th anniversary of Hubble's launch. (NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/A. Nota, Westerlund 2 Science Team via AP)
Outdoor Activities

Look up tonight to see the final supermoon of the year

There won’t be another supermoon until fall 2025.
November 15, 2024
Outdoor Activities

The epic archery hunt at Minnesota’s Camp Ripley was an annual party. Here’s why it’s never coming back.

The Minnesota National Guard has transformed what was a weekend deluge of bow hunters into a daily trickle.
November 14, 2024
Outdoors

Minnesota’s 2024 deer hunt in pictures

Firearm season began Saturday, Nov. 9.
November 13, 2024
Greater Minnesota

Tolkkinen: Hunting together despite divisions

The opening of firearms season for Minnesota deer hunters brings familes and friends together and also forces you to make peace with people of differing politics.
AuthoredKaren Tolkkinen
November 12, 2024
Minnesota DNR officials are proposing a four-day youth deer hunting season to be held in October, before the regular firearms season.
Outdoor Activities

How motor sports and quiet sports lovers are working together in northern Minnesota

The Arrowhead Coalition of Trails brings together ATVing, mountain biking, hiking, snowmobiling and others to build on outdoor recreation in the region.
November 12, 2024
Outdoors

Taurid meteor shower nearing peak

Also learn about fuzzy goldenrod and sea smoke this week in nature in Minnesota.
November 11, 2024
Outdoor Activities

Minnesota’s best deer hunting regions and four other things to know about the 2024 opener

Last year’s mild winter has helped the state’s deer population.
November 9, 2024
Outdoors

Fewer antlerless permits issued to hunters, but weather, harvest outlook upbeat for deer opener

Cloudy skies, highs touching 50 degrees statewide will greet some 450,000 whitetail seekers Saturday.
November 8, 2024
Whitetail deer
Back to Top