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Minneapolis: Cuba-Touring Orchestra, Indigenous James Beard Winner and 150 Miles of Lake Superior Cliffs
Hear the Minnesota Orchestra that toured Cuba in 2014 after a 16-month lockout nearly destroyed it, eat at Owamni where Sean Sherman won Best New Restaurant James Beard using only Indigenous ingredients, walk Nicollet Mall where the Mary Tyler Moore Show tossed her hat in the 1970s first modern American pedestrian corridor, drive Highway 61 Bob Dylan road past Split Rock Lighthouse on 130-foot Lake Superior basalt cliffs, land at MSP airport for direct Delta flights to Tokyo and London then take the Blue Line train downtown in 25 minutes, and bike the 13-mile Chain of Lakes trail on a summer morning.
Minneapolis: F. Scott Fitzgerald Summit Avenue, Guthrie Theater Over the River and 9 Miles of Indoor Skyways
Shop 500 stores at Mall of America where Minnesota no-tax on clothing law draws out-of-state visitors to the nation second most visited attraction, see Saint Paul Victorian grandeur on Summit Avenue where Fitzgerald grew up under the second-largest self-supporting dome after Rome, browse 90000 objects in the free Minneapolis Institute of Art permanent collection, understand Minneapolis reckoning after George Floyd at 38th and Chicago where the memorial remained for two years, see the Guthrie Endless Bridge cantilevered 178 feet over Mississippi mill ruins, and navigate downtown in January through 9.5 miles of heated second-floor Skyway bridges.
Minneapolis: Bob Dylan Dinkytown Coffeehouses, East African Little Mogadishu and Gehry Campus
Hike the Mississippi River Gorge the only true gorge on the upper river through limestone bluffs on the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, watch the Twins play outdoors at Target Field where limestone and skyline views make it one of the most beautiful ballparks in baseball, walk Dinkytown where Bob Dylan launched his career at the Ten OClock Scholar before leaving for New York, explore Bde Maka Ska Uptown waterfront and Eat Street for Vietnamese and Somali food on Nicollet, see how Minneapolis largest Somali diaspora in the US transformed Cedar-Riverside into Little Mogadishu, and visit 500 artists in their Northeast studios during Art-A-Whirl open studios.
Minneapolis: Prince Paisley Park, Spoonbridge Cherry and the Busiest Wilderness in America
Visit the Spoonbridge and Cherry in the country largest urban sculpture garden beside Walker Art Center, walk the Stone Arch Bridge above St. Anthony Falls where Minneapolis milled 12 million loaves of bread worth of flour daily at its 1880s peak, plan a BWCA canoe trip 150 miles north through 1000 lakes that requires a permit lottery months in advance, eat 50 new foods on sticks at the Great Minnesota Get-Together state fair drawing 2 million people, make a pilgrimage to First Avenue club and Paisley Park in Chanhassen where Prince recorded everything he ever made, and bike the 13-mile Chain of Lakes trail from Bde Maka Ska to Lake Harriet bandshell concerts.