Lake Superior Helicopters in Superior Wisconsin offers scenic helicopter tours of Lake Superior, Duluth, and the surrounding area. Superior is located close to our Lake Superior bed and breakfast, on the other side of Superior and Saint Louis Bays.
Soar over Lake Superior.
The Aerial Lift Bridge is a remarkable feat of engineering. It has been known to go up and down dozens of times a day to allow shipping traffic through, and still it works. It is also beautiful. During the summer, crowds form to watch the ships line up and the bridge rise. There is something strangely uplifting about witnessing this event – as the bridge slowly climbs upward so do our spirits. We find ourselves awed by human creativity and ingenuity. We feel inspired.
The Aerial Lift Bridge is located in the Duluth neighborhoods of Canal Park and Park Point, as is our Lake Superior bed and breakfast. Guests may watch the shipping traffic from the inn, and in some cases from their rooms. It’s a short stroll to down the beach to watch the ships glide through the Canal and under the bridge – their enormity can be downright astonishing.
Watch shipping traffic line up to pass through the Aerial Lift Bridge.
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center is a wonderful place to learn about the maritime history of Lake Superior. Stop by the next time you stay at our Duluth bed and breakfast – it’s close to us in Canal Park, at the base of the Aerial Lift Bridge.
Visit Duluth Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center.
Currently on exhibit is the historic Fresnel Lens that once lit the Inner Range Light on the South Pier of the Duluth Ship Canal. It was installed sometime at the start of the 20th century, and remained in place until it was replaced by a phenolic (plastic) lens in 1995. A visit to the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center affords a unique opportunity to get close to a Minnesota lighthouse lens.
After indulging in a gourmet breakfast at our Duluth Lake Superior bed and breakfast (ciabatta topped with ham, cheese, arugula, and egg anyone?) walk about a quarter mile up the beach to the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center. It’s free, informative, and fun. On the way back, take your time and look for beach glass, which you may take home or donate to our collection.
The Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center is open daily through December 19, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.. For more information, please visit the LSMMA website.
The Tweed Museum of Art on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus features an ever-rotating, always-interesting series of exhibits. The museum collection grew out of the private art collection of George and Alice Tweed, who were also responsible for funding the building of the museum itself back in the 1950s. Today, the Tweed is home to more than 6,000 art pieces covering a wide range of art history and cultures.
Form and Surface, at the Tweed.
There are several excellent reasons to step inside the Tweed when you visit our Duluth bed and breakfast this fall. Read on for a list of current shows:
The leaves are starting to turn near our Duluth bed and breakfast. This is a favorite time for scenic drives, especially along Lake Superior and up into the Superior National Forest. If your schedule allows for mid-week travel, you may find you have the roads largely to yourself. No matter the day of the week, we will welcome you at our Lake Superior bed and breakfast Duluth.
The lovely fall color of Aspens trees.
The Superior National Forest lies north of Duluth and is part of the Great Boundary Waters at the Minnesota – Canada border. Leaf peepers will be delighted by the variety of deciduous trees found along the Superior National Forest Scenic Byway: aspen, oak, maple, mountain ash, and paper birch. Pale yellow, vibrant red, and dusty orange leaves flutter gracefully to the ground as winds shake the trees. (more…)
It’s true. Duluth is the only Lake Superior port of call for eight magnificent Tall Ships making their way to six cities in the United States and Canada. We can’t wait. Our Lake Superior bed and breakfast is wonderfully positioned to witness this rare event – the ships will sail past our beach.
Stay at our Duluth b&b and have the experience of a lifetime.
The following ships are scheduled to arrive July 28, 2010: U.S. Brig Niagara, Barque EUROPA, HMS Bounty, Pride of Baltimore II, Roald Amundsen, ZEETO, S/V Denis Sullivan, Roseway, Freedom Schooner Amistad. Additional vessels may also arrive. The ships will be in Duluth until August 3. Have we said we can’t wait?
In addition to enjoying incredible views of the ships when under sail, guests of our Duluth bed and breakfast will also be quite close to the center of Tall Ship activity – we can walk to Bayfront Festival Park and Harbor Drive behind the DECC from the inn. Guests may easily stroll down to enjoy live music, stagings of the Pirates of Penzance, and ship tours.
We look forward to welcoming guests when the Tall Ships come to Duluth July 28 – August 3, 2010. We look forward to meals on the deck while watching the ships. We can’t wait to walk to the park to get close to them. What a festive occasion!
For more information about the Tall Ships in Duluth, please click here.
Shouldn't you be here this week?
There are many benefits to traveling mid week. Everything is less crowded: museums, parks, roads, and our Duluth bed and breakfast. Be spontaneous, drop everything, and hit the road. You deserve a break.
The Tweed Museum of Art, at the University of Minnesota, has a new exhibit: You and Yours: Images of Family. The exhibit was created by historian and curator Laura Briggs, who delved into the museum archives to find pieces that deal with family. In addition, she brought in new pieces by artists whose work has not yet been displayed in Duluth.
The inspiration for the exhibit stems from the changing definition of family. Briggs has written that “as cultural definitions of marriage, childhood, motherhood, and paternity shift over time, so too do our ways of forming family and of picturing it. You and Yours: Images of Family presents classic images of family alongside contemporary artists’ explorations of this universal, yet often idealized, theme.” It’s a fascinating idea. (more…)
The Lighthouse is an icon of the Great Lakes. For more than a century, sailors have depended on them to guide them through darkness, fog and storms. Their light has prevented more than one shipwreck and saved more than one life.
Duluth Lighthouse
We are fortunate to have two lighthouses quite close to our bed and breakfast Duluth. The North Breakwater Lighthouse and the South Breakwater Lighthouse were used to mark the entrance to the canal and the Lift Bridge. Only one is still operational, but they both remain significant Duluth landmarks. (more…)
Sound Unseen International Duluth is an international film and music festival that began in Minneapolis in 2000. This year, it is expanding to Duluth. SUID takes place June 2 – 6, 2010 at several venues around Duluth, including: Zinema 2, Fitger’s Spirit of the North Theater, Greysolon Plaza and Pizza Lucé. A few of these venues are within walking distance from our Duluth bed and breakfast.
Be there.
Most mothers like chocolate. They like flowers, and new clothes and books. But what most mothers really want for Mother’s Day is to spend time with their children – especially if those children are grown and living away from ‘home’.
Enjoy breakfast by the lake with your mom.
We can’t all make it home for Mother’s Day. Many of us are mothers ourselves, and look forward to spending the day with our own little ones. Yet we can give something special to mom this Mother’s Day – a promise of time together at our Lake Superior bed and breakfast in Duluth.
Imagine you and your mother having a day or two all to yourselves. Leave your busy lives at home, and steal away together so you can really enjoy one another. Go to museums. Go to the theater. Shop. Stay up late. Reconnect. Such moments are rare in our busy lives, but they are priceless.
Call us to inquire about gift certificates to our Duluth bed and breakfast, and make your mother a happy woman.
