Park Rapids is a popular destination for the Fourth of July. The Fourth of July celebration begins at 9 a.m. with the Firecracker Footrace in Heartland Park. The Park Rapids Lakes Area Chamber of ...

Paul Bunyan is a staple of Minnesota lore. If you haven't heard the stories of Paul Bunyan, we'll talk about it briefly, but ...

As logging faded, Paul Bunyan stuck around. Local towns from Bemidji to Akeley put up statues and museums, and Minnesota’s tourism industry adopted him as a friendly mascot. Statues of Paul and Babe ...

This year, he reached the Paul Bunyan finals, took third at Minnesota ... named Ella Henning — her third loss to the Walker-Hack-Akeley-Nevis wrestler came in the 100 state final.

It was close to home since Johnson graduated from Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School and Minnesota State University Moorhead. The ad was from Paul Bunyan Telephone Cooperative, a small company ...

In the 134th playing of Minnesota's historic rivalry with Wisconsin, the Gophers left with a 24-7 win and Paul Bunyan's Axe. Wisconsin hosted Minnesota at Camp Randall Stadium in sub-20 degree ...

Paul Bunyan in Akeley, Minn., a strawberry in Strawberry Point, Iowa, and Sandy, a sandhill crane in Steele, N.D. In Halstad, population 560, the giant beet sits next to a well-stocked general ...

Today, images of Bunyan statues fill Minnesota family photo albums — standing tall in onetime lumber boomtowns Bemidji, Brainerd and Akeley. “That lovable Paul, by all accounts, was likely ...

Minnesota erected Bunyan statues in the towns of Bemidji, Akeley, and Brainerd amid the lakes and forests of Northern Minnesota. Visitors can see the best of the region on the 115-mile-long Paul ...

Fitting. This statue is HUGE! And it is located in Akeley. It sits right outside the Paul Bunyan Historial Museum. If you want to take the road trip to check out all of the arifacts in the museum, ...

One of these hidden gems is the world’s largest Paul Bunyan statue, standing proudly in Akeley along the Heartland State Trail. This colossal figure is not just a landmark. It’s a piece of Americana ...

Akeley was a big logging town in days gone by, making it the perfect place for the legendary logger Paul Bunyan to be born. The town is celebrating its 75th annual Paul Bunyan Days this weekend.