Minnesota

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

Minnesota is live on Travelog with one destination, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota's only national park, free to enter with no entrance fee at all. Named for the French Canadian fur traders who once paddled its waters, the park protects a 56-mile stretch of their historic trade route across four major lakes: Rainy, Kabetogama, Namakan, and Sand Point. Nearly 40% of the park is water, and most of it is reachable only by boat.

Voyageurs is genuinely unusual among the parks in this build, a water-based park where boats, not cars or trails, are the primary way to actually experience most of it, covered in full below.