Something else might be happening at Lake Itasca. On summer evenings, without fail, and especially on holiday weekends, there is a line of small campfires burning around its shore from the campgrounds ...

Jacob Brower at the Lake Itasca basin at DeSoto Lake, 1889. The Itasca forest during the late nineteenth century contained towering pines and numerous lakes. Individuals like surveyor Jacob Brower ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — The operators of a longtime, popular attraction at Itasca State Park dry-docked their business this summer, claiming the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources changed rules to ...

If you go What: The 38th annual Lake Itasca Region Pioneer Farmers show. When: Doors open at 7 a.m.; event runs today through Sunday. Where: the entrance to the grounds is on the east side of the ...