Trent Jonas

5 days ago | onlyinyourstate.com | Trent Jonas

stops7distancedriving timeIn This GuideGrand Marais, Minnesota01Duluth, Minnesota02Apostle Islands National Lakeshore03Bayfield, Wisconsin04Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park – Michigan05Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore06Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan07The Lake Superior Circle Tour is a well-known road trip route around the entire shoreline of Lake Superior, most of which lies in the Canadian province of Ontario.

6 days ago | onlyinyourstate.com | Trent Jonas

You know how certain aromas and flavors from childhood send you screaming back in time like a 1.21-gigawatt Delorean—to your first sleepover, celebrations with your tee ball team, or your then-best-friend's post-Star Wars birthday party? The common flavor in these very specific memories of mine, and many others, is pizza from Pagliai's in Iowa City. I grew up non-chronologically in Iowa City and Decorah, Iowa (shoutouts, as well, to Tipton and Lowden, between which I spent my first five years).

6 days ago | onlyinyourstate.com | Trent Jonas

Fishing is a big deal in the Land of 10,000 Lakes—and every spring we all wait with bated (baited?) breath for the end of that dark time between ice out and the walleye opener. Many of us Minnesotans spend these slow weeks re-spooling our reels, organizing our tackle boxes, and staking out our honey holes. We all have our favorite spots, but in northern Minnesota, one lake is particularly renowned for its world-class walleye (and muskie) fishing: Lake Vermilion.

1 week ago | onlyinyourstate.com | Trent Jonas

Joachim "Aki" Berndt missed the flavors of his native Germany, which he felt he just could not find in his adopted home of Minnesota. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands and create them himself. In 2010, Berndt decided he should share his passion for German baked goods with his community and took his show—pretzels and bread—on the road to farmers markets and beer festivals.

1 week ago | onlyinyourstate.com | Trent Jonas

Have you ever been out exploring in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and driven past something that didn't immediately register, but as soon as your brain catches up with your eyes, you do a double-take? (Or I sometimes do a U-turn and double back to see if what I thought saw was, indeed, what I thought it was.) That's precisely what happened to me the first time I noticed Little Log House Pioneer Village, near Hastings, Minnesota.