Cooperstown it ain't. Cross-eyed, he stares down at the McDonald's strategically located across the street. Next to the big miner is America's only iron-themed amusement park. Sadly, like the Wolf Interpretive Center, Ironworld U.S.A . has succumbed to the forces of political correctness. Instead, the IDC boasts a History of the Civilian Conservation Corps exhibit, an Iron Range Interpretive Center, and a recreated pioneer cabin.
Actors sing songs, praise ethnic diversity.
Taconite is used as a landscaping medium. The only vestige of the Iron World of yore is a small, solitary statue of Pellet Pete, an anthropomorphized, grinning pellet of taconite on tank treads. On to Hibbing and the Greyhound Bus Origin Center , which is the high point of the afternoon. This museum, created by a rabid Greyhound bus fan, features promotional items, films, uniforms, and a collection of historic buses. Then it's two lane driving to the Canadian border, and the fabled town of International Falls.