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Attractions near Tower

The nearest draw to Tower: Voyageurs National Park, 35 mi away

Of the 5 places to visit in and around Tower, 3 are parks & monuments. None of them is inside Tower itself. Yearly visitors to Voyageurs National Park number about 206K. Out of town, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is 50 mi away.

Attractions nearby
9
within 60 miles
The big one
35 mi
Voyageurs National Park
National park units
1
parks & monuments
National Park · 35 mi north

Voyageurs National Park

United States National Park near International Falls, Minnesota.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

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At 37 mi, Minnesota Discovery Center is the farthest one out.

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

Everything nearby

The places, one by one

All 9 on the list lie 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 Tower → · Tower’s history →

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

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 · 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

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