Voyageurs National Park
United States National Park near International Falls, Minnesota.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.

Parks & monuments make up 3 of the 5 places on the list. Soudan itself has none of them. Voyageurs National Park welcomes about 206K visitors a year. At 48 mi, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is worth the journey.

United States National Park near International Falls, Minnesota.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Minnesota Discovery Center marks the outer edge, 39 mi away.
Orange: Soudan. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All 10 on the list lie within 60 miles.
United States National Park near International Falls, Minnesota.
State park in Minnesota, USA.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Soudan → · Soudan’s history →
Voyageurs National Park: Unknown, Public domain · Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: R27182818 at English Wikipedia (Original text: Reid Priedhorsky (R27182818)), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Split Rock Lighthouse: Jim Sorbie, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · Greyhound Bus Museum: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Minnesota Discovery Center: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Olcott Park: McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0