Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-05-26
Minnesota Offers Much to Interest
and Delight the Tourist Wnnderer

interest to home seekers or persons
Of practical turn of mind and would
not attract the vacationist. If so,
then let us turn to Minnesota the
beautiful. Would you have hills and
valleys, woodlands or prairies, dense
forests and shimmering lakes, wind
ing streams or rushing waters with
rocky rapids and beautiful, noisy wa
ter falls; would you choose to visit
the peaceful rural country where the
plowman wends his homeward way
or the busy marts of industry where
trade and commerce fill the busy hours
of day, and night is the time of rev.
elry; or would you seek the uninter-
rupted wilds of nature where the birds
and beasts are in the forests and fish
abound in the waters. Whatever your
choice Minnesota can satisfy your de-
sire.
Minnesota has state and national
parks which altogether contain more
than 100000 acres af land. They are
kept in their wild condition as far as
possible. They abound in most beau.
tiful and picturesque places. The wood
Land has a great variety of trees and
flowers. It's wild life is abundant and
in the northern part of the State may
be found large numbers of deer and
moose and other large and small
game.
10000 Silvery Lakes
Minnesota's boast of Ten Thousand
Lakes is but modest claim. She has
that number and many more. These
vary in size. Each is gem in itself
adding much to its surroundings, and
usually it's depths are filled with many
varieties of the finest game fish. In
parts of the State these lakes are
found Unexpectedly here and there as
rare jewel, while in other sections
one lake is hardly reached before an
other and yet another comes into
view. ~,~,
Mirrored waters Of the lakes are
not alone in identifying the landscape;
rivers and streams connect lakes and
divide meadows. They water the
lands; they add beauty and in the earl
Ter days were the carrier of many a
boat. The great Mississippi, the faith
er OF waters, is among them and finds
its beginning among the lakes of the
north; the Minnesota flows from west
to east winding it's way through prai-
rie and woodland, sometimes playing
in one of the most beautiful park Sec
lions any state could discover; the
st. Croix has formed il it's play with
nature tn, phenomenal "Dalles" with
their curious formations of rocks and
caverns, and Rainy River drops over
precipice after precipice letting it's
waters come down from these high
lodges as water fallr of the most ex-
quisite beauty. But these are only a
few of the larger streams and there
are many just as beautiful although
perhaps not quite as large, in the east,
the west, the south, the north.
These are natural advantages and
to them man has added hundreds of
summer hotels and unique cottage,
camps and outing resorts increasing
in size as demand arises and summer
residents increase. Then Minnesota
has builded a great system of unex.
celled highways, extending to all parts
Of the state, and making the Indian
pipestone quarries of the southwest
ern prairie equally accessible to the
tourist with the far-famed North Shore
Drive along the rock bound coast of
Lake Superior and bringing the Red
River of the North and Rush River of
the southeast within easy driving dis.
lance of the Twin Cities.