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  2. Grand Marais, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Grand Marais, Minnesota. /  47.75389°N 90.33528°W  / 47.75389; -90.33528. Grand Marais ( / məˈreɪ / mə-RAY) [6] is a city and the county seat of Cook County, Minnesota, United States, of which it is the only municipality. It is on Lake Superior 's North Shore. Grand Marais had a population of 1,337 at the 2020 census. [2]

  3. Climate of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    The average monthly temperature of Minneapolis varies from 13 °F or −11 °C in January to 73 °F or 23 °C in July. Because of its location in North America, Minnesota experiences temperature extremes characteristic of a continental climate, with cold winters and mild to hot summers in the south and frigid winters and generally cool summers ...

  4. Cook County, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Geography Eagle Mountain, the highest natural point in Minnesota at 2,301 feet (701 m), is located in northern Cook County. Cook County is a rugged, heavily wooded triangle of land on Minnesota's northeastern tip. It abuts Canada's southern border and is largely surrounded by the northern end of the Great Lakes.

  5. Sawtooth Mountains (Minnesota) - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 47°40′N 90°42′W. The Sawtooth Mountains on the shore of Lake Superior, looking west by southwest from Grand Marais, Minnesota. The Sawtooth Mountains are a range of hills or small mountains on the North Shore of Lake Superior in the U.S. state of Minnesota, extending about 30 miles (48 km) from Carlton Peak near Tofte on the ...

  6. North Shore (Lake Superior) - Wikipedia

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    The town of Beaver Bay was founded in 1869 as a fishing community, and Grand Marais was founded by Henry Mayhew and Sam Howenstine in 1871. Another panic in 1873 put an end to this growth, and Duluth shrank to a population of 1,300. In the 1880s, growth began again in Minnesota, and significant growth began for the first time in Canada.

  7. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    Geography The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior ...

  8. Boundary Waters - Wikipedia

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    The Boundary Waters, also called the Quetico-Superior Country, is a region of wilderness straddling the Canada–United States border between Ontario and Minnesota, in the area just west of Lake Superior. While "Boundary Waters" is a common name for this region, the two nations also share extensive boundary waters along their border, beyond ...

  9. Geography of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Minnesota. The U.S. State of Minnesota is the northernmost state outside Alaska; its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods is the only part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel north. Minnesota is in the U.S. region known as the Upper Midwest in interior North America.

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