Aerial Lift Bridge, Lake Superior and a craft-beer waterfront on Minnesota's north shore
Duluth sits where Lake Superior narrows into the St. Louis River estuary — a working port city with a scenic Lakewalk, the iconic Aerial Lift Bridge, and a Canal Park district of breweries and kayak launches. The scenery rivals maritime New England at a fraction of the price.
Duluth became one of the busiest inland ports in the United States during the late 19th century, its grain elevators and ore docks feeding the steel industry that built America's heartland. The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway moved billions of tons of iron ore from the Mesabi Range through the city, and remnants of that industrial heritage still shape the waterfront.