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.
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If you re looking for a simpler hike but wanting a cool payoff at the end, this trail at Minnesota Point, or Point Park as some people call it, in Duluth, Minnesota might be the trail for you. At the end of this 4-mile trail are the remains of the oldest structure still standing in Duluth: the Zero Point Lighthouse.
Park Point is a really cool spot for a reason other than this lighthouse, but we ll talk about that in a second. Only in Your State writes that the trial you need to take to get to Zero Point Lighthouse is near Sky Harbor Airport. According to Google Maps, the trail is called the Park Point Nature Trail. It ll be a gravel path through trees. After you ve gone about a mile you ll hit a fork in the road. When you get there take a right. Then they say the path will eventually take you along a sandy area with a lovely view of the lake. After a little less than a mile on the sandy part of the trail, you ll be able to see the abandoned lighthouse! I
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If you re looking for a simpler hike but wanting a cool payoff at the end, this trail at Minnesota Point, or Point Park as some people call it, in Duluth, Minnesota might be the trail for you. At the end of this 4-mile trail are the remains of the oldest structure still standing in Duluth: the Zero Point Lighthouse.
Park Point is a really cool spot for a reason other than this lighthouse, but we ll talk about that in a second. Only in Your State writes that the trial you need to take to get to Zero Point Lighthouse is near Sky Harbor Airport. According to Google Maps, the trail is called the Park Point Nature Trail. It ll be a gravel path through trees. After you ve gone about a mile you ll hit a fork in the road. When you get there take a right. Then they say the path will eventually take you along a sandy area with a lovely view of the lake. After a little less than a mile on the sandy part of the trail, you ll be able to see the abandoned lighthouse! I