Itasca State Park is a great place to visit year-round. Summer is the peak time to visit, but unlike most of the state parks, Itasca gets visitors year-round staying on property.

Logging continued on non-state land with companies using Lake Itasca as a holding area. That year, a dam outside the park built by the Mississippi Schoolcraft Boom and Improvement Company raised ...

It had been my favorite stop in Lake Itasca State Park for many years, ever since I first made the short trek down an unnamed trail by Nicollet Creek, turned right to walk to an observation ...