Split Rock Lighthouse wasn't a tourist destination for Beulah Covell-Myers - it was home for much of her childhood. The daughter of Franklin Covell, one of only two head Split Rock lighthouse keepers, ...

An iconic site on the Lake Superior shoreline will be briefly closed to tourists this spring for repair and restoration. Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the ...

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TWO HARBORS, Minn. — Restoration work on one of Minnesota's most iconic tourist spots will limit opportunities for visitors for just over two weeks in May. A project is set to begin at Split ...

A popular North Shore historic site is back open for visitors after a wildfire triggered an evacuation Tuesday. The Split Rock Lighthouse Facebook page reported that a fire that kindled in a wooded ...

LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — It’s a sunny August Saturday at Split Rock Lighthouse historical site in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. There’s a line out the lighthouse door of visitors eager ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A wildfire near Minnesota’s Split Rock Lighthouse prompted the evacuation of the historic site. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Silver Bay Fire Department, ...

The Dyrt camping app has named campgrounds in Minnesota and North Dakota to its list of the 10 best places to camp for 2025. Split Rock Lighthouse State Park campground on Lake Superior was No. 3 on ...

The Split Rock Lighthouse beacon, located along the Lake Superior shore near Beaver Bay, Minn., is lit at dusk on Nov. 10, 2010, to recognize the anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, on Nov. 10, 1975. Split Rock Lighthouse will host a 50th anniversary commemoration for the ship, including a beacon lighting and memorial for those lost in the ...

Our kayaks sliced through the thick fog that blanketed Lake Superior, erasing any view of Split Rock Lighthouse towering on the cliffside ahead. We paddled past one of Minnesota’s most recognizable ...