Happy Trails: Park Point Trail straddles harbor and great lake
What started as a sunny, breezy walk between the Duluth-Superior Harbor and Lake Superior ended as a cautionary tale of hiking preparedness. 5:00 am, Jun. 4, 2021 ×
Duluth s Park Point Trail on the end of Minnesota Point offers a mix of hiking terrain, including sections of soft beach sand and sections of shadowed old-growth pine. (Samantha Erkkila / serkkila@duluthnews.com)
How is it that I went to college in Duluth for four years and have lived in the Northland for almost eight without having hiked out to the end of Minnesota Point?
The Park Point Trail has always intrigued me. With the big lake, the fine sandy beach and the old-growth pine forest. It’s a mix of terrain unlike any I ve come across in Minnesota.
Population survey underway now may shed light on the health of the river’s walleye fishery. 10:30 am, May 4, 2021 ×
Fred Schmitz of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources handles a 26-inch male walleye that was netted and tagged on the St. Louis River in late April, part of an effort to tag and recapture 8,000 walleyes this spring to better determine the estuary s walleye population. (Photo courtesy of Paul Piszczek, Wisconsin DNR)
DULUTH Crews from Wisconsin and Minnesota departments of natural resources have been busy capturing and tagging thousands of walleyes in the St. Louis River estuary this spring, and then recapturing as many as they can to estimate the walleye population.