Minnesota Roadside AttractionsAdd an Offbeat Minnesota Travel Guide
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As you drive the highways and roads be on the lookout for unique Minnesota roadside attractions. These are often wonderful monuments to the legends that are part of Minnesota history. Sometimes they are representations of an animal or fish that is identified with Minnesota. Others are museums, objects, statues or art that is unique to a town or region.The statue of the Jolly Green Giant, at 55-feet tall, is one of the largest Minnesota roadside attractions. The giant can be found in Blue Earth, MN and is a reminder of Minnesota's agricultural resources.
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From the back cover of the book, Monumental Minnesota: A Guide to Outdoor Sculpture:
These monuments commemorate Minnesota's real, and imagined heros. The photo on the cover is of a statue to the Finnish hero, St. Urho, located in Menagha, MN. In Bemidji you can see Minnesota legend Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. Chief Kandiyohi stands near the Kandiyohi, MN courthouse.
Minnesota Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
If you are a resident of Minnesota, you will be laughing out loud as the authors introduce you to the neighbors you never knew you had and take you to places you never knew existed—right in your own backyard! If you are in Minnesota on vacation, be sure to visit some of the most wild and wacky places and things the North Star State has to offer!
Minnesota Marvels: Roadside Attractions in the Land of Lakes
This photo below is of the "world's largest prairie chicken" and is located in the small Northern Minnesota town of Rothsay. Many of the roadside attractions in Minnesota are "the world's largest" of some type of animal, fish or bird.
We have collected a few more stories and photos of unusual Minnesota attractions on the Little Known Minnesota page. There is so much more to share. Please grab your camera when you head out on the roads of Minnesota and add stories and photos of your discoveries.
What Minnesota Roadside Attractions
Have You Discovered?
Minnesota has lots of roadside art,statues and symbols of our state's history, people and legends and some rather weird and humorous unusual attractions. Share a story about what you have seen along the roads and highways. If you have a photo, share that as well!
Minnesota Roadside Attractions
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The Pelican Rapids Pelican
There are several ways to get from the Twin Cities to one of our favorite vacation spots in Detroit Lakes, MN. The way we usually go is highway 94 until ...
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