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Enjoy top quality Jazz in a beautiful setting. Grand Marais is a quaint lakeside fishing village and longtime artist colony. Weekend activities include performances by David "Fathead" Newman, Melissa Walker and Joe Baione, as well as a Jazz-infused Art Crawl through local galleries. A variety of ticketed and free events will be available all over the county during the Memorial Day Weekend. Details at www.grandmaraisjazzfest.com

Senior Center Parking Lot  - 10 Broadway
9 - 1 Saturdays - later if town is busy

New for 2009 - the market will be open on Sunday also for holiday weekends:
Memorial Day - 5/23 & 5/24
4th of July  - 7/4 & 7/5
Labor Day - 9/5  &  9/6

Discovering the birds, wildflowers, geology and more of this dynamic and rich northern landscape is the focus of the festival. A series of inter-related, field-focused workshops and courses (1-3 days in length) form the backbone of the event.

North House Folk School invites you to its campus for the biggest celebration of the year - Wooden Boat Show & Summer Solstice Festival. Try your hand at a workshop or course. Be inspired by the stories of boat builders, sailors and travelers, and plan your next adventure. A fun, family oriented, educational event. Member supported, volunteer hosted and admission-free

Juried art fair with over 60 artists and artisans representing many genres, ceramics, jewelry, photography. Artists' booths open 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday. 10am to 4pm on Sunday.

A fun weekend for paddlers and spectators of all ages! Friday night parade, Saturday youth & adult races, activities for the kids. Come to paddle or watch the action on the Grand Marais Harbor. Individual & team registration available. Events all weekend, centered around the Grand Marais harbor and downtown Grand Marais.

Grand Marais' favorite festival! Sports/fishing tournaments, kid's carnival, live music, parade, fireworks, activities and food vendors. $10,000 grand prize raffle!

Family oriented festival for fitness and safety. Events include competitive 20k mountain bike and 5k trail run events, a children's bike safety rodeo, scenic bike tours and it all begins with a Friday night pasta dinner. Proceeds benefit the Cook County Food Shelf.

Enjoy a weekend of Autumn colors & celebration filled with music, food, traditional fish boil, and view traditional craft workmanship by guest artisans. North House Folk School promotes learning & preserving knowledge, skills, & crafts of the past & present.

This family festival falls during the MEA Teachers' Convention. Murray the Moose is here, and there are activities, contests, events for everyone all over town!

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The Cook County Historical Society maintains four separate locations. The museum is in Grand Marais located at 8 South Broadway in the Lighthouse Keeper's House on the National Registry of Historic Places. The Johnson Heritage Post located at 115 West Wisconsin Street is a gallery of rotating local and regional art. The building is styled after the original trading post built in the early 1900s by Charlie and Anna Johnson. Cook County Historical Society also operates St. Francis Xavier Chippewa City Mission Church, a 1930's fish house replica and the fishing tug Neegee

Lake Superior sport fishing for trout and salmon aboard a 28 ft Sportfisherman. Based out of the beautiful harbor town of Grand Marais. 20 years charter experience.

The Grand Marais Art Colony is Minnesota's oldest art colony. Begun in 1947 as The Outdoor School of Painting, it was, until 1958, a project of the Minneapolis School of Art, forerunner of MCAD. Located on the rugged northshore of Lake Superior, the Art Colony is housed in the heart of the coastal village of Grand Marais in a 1918 mission church.

Dedicated to providing high quality theater and educational opportunities. We value artistic challenge, diversity, community and collaboration.

Continuous shows (8 per year) featuring various media and artists from all over the Midwest and Canada.

Enriching lives and building community by teaching traditional northern crafts in a student-centered learning environment that inspires the hands, the heart and the mind.

70.0 km trackset for Classic. 60.0 km skate-ski. Mostly intermediate level trails (45%), with 30% advanced and 25% beginner. Snowshoe Trails available. Snowshoeing on trails allowed with ski ticket. Numerous scenic views and overlooks while skiing thru the Superior National Forest.

Come for the quiet, the solitude, and the famous Devil's Kettle waterfall. The most popular hike leads from the trailhead upstream along the Brule River to Devil's Kettle, where the river splits around a mass of volcanic rock. Half of the river plunges 50 feet into a pool, while the rest pours into a huge pothole.

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Pastor:  Dale C. McIntire
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Pastor:  Dennis C. Schutte
Sunday Worship:  9:00 am at the Community Center in Grand Marais

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Pastor:  Father Seamus Walsh
Saturday Mass:  5:00 pm
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Pastor:  Kristin Garey
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Weekly newspaper published on Fridays with a circulation of 3,899

Northern Wilds, the Outdoor Newspaper of the North. Covering news and activities along Lake Superior's North Shore, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Gunflint Trail, Duluth, Thunder Bay, and Lake Nipigon.

Aspen Lodge, the ideal four-season vacation getaway near shops, restaurants and entertainment. The beautiful swimming pool, giant whirlpool spa, sauna and sun deck are a favorite for end-of-day relaxing. Aspen Lodge offers lake view king or double queen rooms and family suites, some with In-room spas.

The Best Western Superior Inn and Suites is your premier waterfront destination on the North Shore for enjoying the scenic beauty and serenity of Lake Superior. Our "smoke free" hotel has inviting and professionally designed rooms with a panoramic vista of the changing moods of this majestic lake, and are decorated with your relaxation and comfort in mind.

Devil Track Resort is a family owned and operated resort located on Devil Track Lake in Grand Marais, Minnesota on the Beautiful North Shore. We are only five years old with completed construction last year!

A quaint harbor community offering respite and recreation on Lake Superior’s North Shore. The perfect place to share every sunrise, celebrate each moonrise, embrace the wind and waves of the greatest freshwater lake with awe and wonder.

The Grand Marais Inn is located a short distance from the harbor on the west end approach to Grand Marais. Featuring comfortable and affordable rooms and suites, the Grand Marais Inn is a perfect place to stay during your North Shore vacation.

Located on the historic Gunflint Trail, the Gunflint Motel is a quaint five-unit Inn with suite style rooms. All rooms have cathedral ceilings and wood interiors throughout. Some also have beautiful views of Lake Superior's harbor and full kitchens.

The Harbor Inn is located on Wisconsin St. facing the Grand Marais' natural harbor, giving visitors a spectacular view. All rooms are non-smoking and impeccably clean.

"On the Scandinavian Riviera." We offer charming, modern housekeeping cottages and deluxe motel units in a serene, secluded setting. Our wooded, spacious grounds overlook the park and harbor.

The place to stay in Grand Marais. All rooms are non-smoking. Clean, cozy, and decorated with a personal touch. Just one block from the Shores of Lake Superior. Family owned and operated.

Grand Marais' best in-town resort. Reasonably priced, large, clean, modern cabins with queen beds and fully equipped kitchens, some with microwaves. Situated in a quiet, park-like atmosphere. Cabins with fireplaces and views of Lake Superior.

The Outpost Motel welcomes you to Lake Superior's beautiful North Shore! Located between Lake Superior and the Superior National Forest, eight miles from Grand Marais, Minnesota.

LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Artist's Point is at our back door. Quiet, away from U.S. Highway 61. With lake view rooms and sundeck at water's edge, The Shoreline has been first choice for generations of families. Fireside, lake view lobby.

Spruceglen offers convenient drive up to your door parking with additional space for boats and trailers. Limited pets allowed with permission. some smoking rooms available.

Grand Marais Super 8 nestled in the forest on the West entrance to Grand Marais. Tucked in behind landscaped berms, it fits right in with our North Shore wilderness, as many rooms overlook quiet aspen and spruce.

The structures are integrated into the natural setting of Lake Superior and represent the organic design principles of John H. Howe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Architect Robert J. Davis and his team of designers have upheld these principles. Nine one bedroom condominiums with either King or Queen bed. No smoking. No Pets. Each condominium has a gourmet kitchen, beautiful stone fireplace,

Year round accommodations featuring 10 uniquely appointed lakeside units overlooking a stunning private ledge rock shoreline.

The Grand Marais Inn and Tomteboda Log Cabins is a family owned and operated lodging facility located 1/2 mile from downtown Grand Marais.

Offering you 8 classic cabins and 8 motel rooms, with a variety of amenities. Perfect if you are looking for a clean, old style North Shore resort.

Trout Lake Resort is nestled in the heart of the Superior National Forest, 12 miles up the historic Gunflint Trail and then East for 4 miles on the Trout Lake Road into the seclusion of our resort. We are the only resort on the lake and take pride in operating a small, quiet, family resort deep in the northwoods where friendliness prevails.

Nestled on the shore of Lake Superior just outside the picturesque town of Grand Marais, Anderson's offers you your own home away from home while visiting the North Shore.

Bearskin Lodge on the Gunflint Trail, Minnesota's family resort offering, lakefront secluded log cabins, canoeing into the BWCA, walleye fishing, boating East Bearskin Lake, family naturalist programs, birding, moose, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, romantic getaways, abundant wildlife. moose viewing, dog sled trips, fine dining.

Minnesota Canoe Outfitters at Bear Track Outfitting Co., a year-round Grand Marais, Minnesota Cross Country Skiing Resort, Lake Superior Charter Fishing and Boundary Waters Kayak & Canoe Outfitting business offering year round wilderness adventures for families and youth groups, come stay in our rustic cabins/cabin rentals.

Clearwater Lodge, the only resort on Clearwater Lake, was finished in 1926 by MN pioneer Charlie Boostrom and is the oldest original whole log structure in northeastern Minnesota. On the National Register of Historic Places, it has retained the look and feel of earlier times.

Family owned and operated resort just 3 miles from downtown Grand Marais, MN. Cozy lakeside cabins ideal for romantic getaways and family vacations.

Devil Track Resort is a family owned and operated resort located on Devil Track Lake in Grand Marais, Minnesota on the Beautiful North Shore. We are only five years old with completed construction last year!

A family oriented, year round resort located on Flour Lake in Northeastern Minnesota on the historic Gunflint Trail and  surrounded by the Superior National Forest.

The Grand Marais Inn is located a short distance from the harbor on the west end approach to Grand Marais. Featuring comfortable and affordable rooms and suites, the Grand Marais Inn is a perfect place to stay during your North Shore vacation.

A year round wilderness vacation resort in Northeastern Minnesota, on the Gunflint Trail just north of Grand Marais, offering family vacations, fishing trips, honeymoons, horseback riding packages, women's group retreats, and family reunions.

Whether you want a family or fishing vacation in a lakefront cabin, tent, camper or RV, the Gunflint Pines invites you to experience four seasons of outdoor activity.

Heston's Lodge offers secluded log cabins on the shore of Gunflint Lake in Northeastern Minnesota, along the route of the Voyageurs.

Two housekeeping cabins on Hungry Jack Lake. Our cabins are right on the shore of the lake, and are just one mile by water from the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

When you stay in one of the lakeside log cabins at Loon Lake Lodge lakefront family resort, on the Gunflint Trail in northern Minnesota, you will return to the past and enjoy one of the few remaining original log-constructed resorts on the Gunflint Trail.

Moosehorn Lodge is located on the sunny north shore of crystal clear Gunflint Lake. Our lodge was originally built in the 1930s and called Borderland Lodge, because of its close proximity to the Canadian border.

Located on the historic Gunflint Trail and on the shore of Poplar Lake, Nor'Wester Lodge and Canoe Outfitters is surrounded by the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and Superior National Forest.

Located on the shore of Poplar Lake, we are surrounded by Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness along the Minnesota - Canadian border. 

Lakeside cabins overlooking Seagull and Saganaga Lakes on the end of the Gunflint Trail, 54 Miles Northwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Trout Lake Resort of Grand Marais is an affordable family & pet friendly lake trout and rainbow trout fishing resort, with lakeshore cabins and winter vacation cabin rental. Lodging accommodations with kitchen, boats, motors, pontoon, ice fishing, canoeing. Near BWCAW, Gunflint Trail, north shore, Lake Superior, golf courses.

Tuscarora Lodge and Canoe outfitters offers canoe outfitting for the BWCAW and Quetico Provincial Park with ultra light canoe camping equipment. Lakeside cabins on Round Lake, adjacent to the Gunflint Trail are also available.

Voyageur Canoe Outfitters is a Gunflint Trail Resort located at the end of the Trail adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Voyageur Canoe Outfitters offers a variety of lodging choices for your stay depending upon the type of accommodation you would like.

Windigo Lodge offers comfortable cabins set back in the woods or on the lakeshore of Poplar Lake. In addition to cabins, modern Villas are available in our main lodge. We also have a campground for tent campers and hook-ups for larger motor homes.

Located in Grand Portage State Forest, managed by Judge Magney State Park. Primitive camping, fishing, swimming, dock.

• 16 campsites
• Carry down lake access at
campground
• Boat ramp one half mile east of
campground
• Close to Grand Marais
• Fishing in Devil Track Lake and
nearby streams
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Campground is located on the shores of East Bearskin Lake, with many camping sites right on the water. Bearskin Lake offers excellent fishing, swimming, boating/canoeing, waterfalls, BWCA entry points, and world class scenery.

We offer 300 campsites: 152 full-hookup sites with electric, water and sewer; 104 water and electric sites and 44 primitive campsites both shoreside and wooded sites. Large group campsites are also available.

Private campgrounds on Gunflint Lake

• 10 campsites, some barrier free
• Picnic area
• Drinking water
• RV accessible
• Boat launch
• Fishing access trail around Kimball Lake
• Barrier free fishing pier (at Mink Lake)
• Swimming area (at Mink Lake)
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Private campgrounds on Poplar Lake

Pine Mountain Campground
1 Thompson Park Drive
Grand Marais, MN 55604
Phone: (218) 387-1619

We are a semi-primitive campground located on Devil Track Lake, 10 min. from Grand Marais.

• 36 campsites, some RV
accessible
• Handicapped accessible
sites
• Picnic area
• Boat launch and parking
• Twin Lakes canoe route
nearby
• Eagle Mountain trail
nearby
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