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Attractions near Silver Bay

Leave Silver Bay for Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, 36 mi away

This is a list led by parks & monuments, 5 of its 8. Silver Bay itself has none of them. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore draws about 261K visitors a year. At 54 mi, Eagle Mountain is worth the journey.

Attractions nearby
18
within 60 miles
The big one
8 mi
Split Rock Lighthouse
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
1
Lutsen Mountains
Lighthouse · 8 mi southwest

Split Rock Lighthouse

Lighthouse in Minnesota, United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

Finding your way

The list reaches out to Superior National Forest, 39 mi away.

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Orange: Silver Bay. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Everything to see

Each of the 18 is within 60 miles.

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Silver Bay → · Silver Bay’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: R27182818 at English Wikipedia (Original text: Reid Priedhorsky (R27182818)), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eagle Mountain: Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Split Rock Lighthouse: Jim Sorbie, CC BY 2.0 · Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: NPS Photo, Public domain · Superior National Forest: No machine-readable author provided. MisterSquirrel~commonswiki assumed (based o, Public domain · Tettegouche State Park: Desertson67 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gooseberry Falls State Park: Chuck Kochmann, Copyrighted free use · Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Great Lakes Aquarium: Tmajewski, Public domain · Lake Superior Railroad Museum: User resedabear on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 · Duluth Depot: Hikki Nagasaki, Public domain · Two Harbors Lighthouse: pmarkham, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Fairlawn Mansion: Nfarmakes, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tweed Museum of Art: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cook County History Museum: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0

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