Grand Portage National Monument

Northern Minnesota


Located beside the Canadian border, this is where the early voyageurs had to carry their canoes around the Pigeon River rapids. It was the center of a far-flung trading empire, and the reconstructed 1788 trading post and Ojibwe village is worth seeing.


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