From left: Ephram, Amelie, Janelle, Ben and Evelyn Heath sit at the top of the middle falls at Gooseberry Falls on Wednesday. The Mississippi family stopped at the state park as part of a Minnesota ...

Heavy rain and flash flooding across Minnesota have washed out state park campsites and trails, damaged bridges and roads, and altered popular attractions to a statewide scale unlike any other time in ...

Other parks: Trail damage is a concern at four North Shore parks, including paths along the Gooseberry, Baptism, Manitou and Temperance rivers. Hopper said the recent weather exacerbated the erosion ...

Why are we obsessed with chasing waterfalls? After all, when faced with a drop in elevation, what a Minnesota river does next — with the possible exception of the Devil’s Kettle — is fairly ...