Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Minnesota
Detourmap lists 50 places in Minnesota, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake of the Woods. 40 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 50
- Oldest
- Fort Ripley 1848
- Little known
- 40 of 50
- Share of United States
- 1%
Minnesota 50
All 50, best known first.
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1.Lake of the Woods
Nature · Renowned
Large glacial lake in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota
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3.Voyageurs National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
United States National Park near International Falls, Minnesota
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6.Saint Anthony Falls
Nature · Notable
Waterfall on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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9.Big Stone Lake
Nature · Notable
Freshwater lake and reservoir on the border between western Minnesota and northeastern South Dakota, United States
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15.Hassan Township
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Former township in Hennepin County, Minnesota, US
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16.Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Open pit iron mine in Hibbing, Minnesota, United States
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17.Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Archaeological · 21st century · Hidden gem
State park in Minnesota, USA
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18.Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park in Forestville Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States
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19.Upper Sioux Agency State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park in Minnesota, United States
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28.Hill Annex Mine State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park in Itasca County, Minnesota, USA
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31.Crow Wing State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park and archaeological site in Crow Wing, Morrison, and Cass counties, Minnesota, USA
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32.Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
State park and archaeological site on Mille Lacs Lake, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, USA
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34.Alexander Ramsey House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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39.SS Harriet B.
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Wooden-hulled barge that served on the Great Lakes of North America
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42.Wanda Gág House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Childhood home of Wanda Gag and now a museum of her work
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43.James J. Hill House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
House of historical interest in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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44.Hinkly House Museum
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Restored Victorian mansion located in Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota owned and operated as a museum by the Rock County Historical Society
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45.Dinehart-Holt House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic house museum on the National Register of Historic Places located in Slayton, Minnesota
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47.Rice Lake
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Ghost town in Dodge and Steele counties, Minnesota, United States
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48.Bull-of-the-Woods Logging Scow
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Shipwreck in northern Minnesota
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50.May Flower (shipwreck)
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Wooden hulled scow schooner that sank in Lake Superior
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Minnesota?
Lake of the Woods. Large glacial lake in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Minnesota?
50: 32 archaeological & historic sites and 18 nature & landscapes. 40 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Minnesota?
Fort Ripley, dated to 1848. 17 of the 50 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Minnesota here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Minnesota if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Minnesota is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.