Outdoors

If you need to get out of the house, these 6 hiking trails in Minnesota are either plowed or have packed snow, perfect for winter hiking.

Sure, Minnesota has some great, remote places to check out the stars in the sky, but one park was just named one of the best places in the WORLD for stargazing.

It's almost the law in Minnesota that you fire up the grill as much as you can during the summer, but you'll spend more to do here than in other states.

My wife and I heard it this weekend when we were having some coffee on our deck. It's a sure sound of late-summer here in southeast Minnesota: It's the buzzing of the cicadas.

Whether your patio space is large or small, there are always ways to change or upgrade your existing setup. Refresh your outdoor area with these chairs, lighting and textiles!

If you're looking to get out and enjoy the great outdoors and you don't want to turn into one big mosquito bite, here's some good news from the Minnesota DNR.

Few things ruin a good time outdoors in the summer in Minnesota than getting all bitten up by mosquitoes. Here's why they might like you better-- and how you can keep them away.

They've been used at several parks around southeast Minnesota (including most recently for Olmsted County's Chester Woods Park near Eyota), and now a herd of goats is on-duty at another park here in Rochester.

Just in time for the summer heat and humidity, there's now a new place to get wet in Rochester.

Now that summer's (unofficially) underway, a great way to cool off is to grab the gang and head out tubing. And, we have some of the best rivers for tubing right here in southeast Minnesota!