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Lantern-lit program, music at Itasca tonight

Lantern-lit Ski and Snowshoe program at Itasca State Park to be held tonight, Feb. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. Join us for an evening snowshoeing and skiing in the...

outdoors Sat, Feb 23, 2013 - 1:00pm

Lantern-lit program changed to a hike at Itasca State Park on Saturday, January 7.

Due to poor snow conditions, the Lantern Lit event scheduled at Itasca State Park on Saturday, January 7, 2012, has been changed to a lantern lit hike. Hikers will be...

outdoors Wed, Jan 04, 2012 - 3:55pm

A bike path to Itasca would take groups off highways, like last week's Habitat 500 ride through the region. (Sarah Smith / Enterprise)

North to Itasca: Hubbard County supports new bike trail

A bike trail from Park Rapids to Itasca State Park makes more sense than extending the Heartland Trail to Moorhead. That was the reasoning of Hubbard County commissioners Wednesday as...

news Sat, Jul 23, 2011 - 1:00pm

Joe Dahlby of rural Bemidji leads his team of horses, Ben and Nick, through the woods hauling logs. (Sarah Smith / Enterprise)

OLD-TIME LOGGING AT ITASCA STATE PARK

news / local Wed, Feb 16, 2011 - 1:00pm

Caitlyn Stute, 4, of Laporte, presses her paper over a painted fish to make an artistic impression. (Sarah Smith / Enterprise)

Itasca program introduces kids to nature's wonders

Fish have fins and they're flippy and floppy. And the furry ones are the best. It's OK for moms and grandpas to come into the fish house if it's too...

news / local Sat, Jan 30, 2010 - 1:00pm

Freddie Hopkins and Kaitlyn Detschman show how woodpeckers suck ants out of trees. (Sarah Smith / Enterprise)

Kids learn about woodpeckers and ants at Itasca State Park

Woodpeckers have long sticky tongues. They go "tap, tap, tap." And when you're taking a practice run at flying, watch out for the chair in front of you. You could...

outdoors Sat, Jan 16, 2010 - 1:00pm

Members of the Lake Itasca Region Pioneer Farmers demonstrated logging methods from the early 1900s last weekend at Itasca State Park. The dense thicket of trees the loggers were thinning out presented obstacles for the horse team hauling out downed trees. The horses had some difficulty maneuvering through the forest, load in tow. Dozens of park
visitors were cautioned to stay back and watch above for "widowmakers," parts of trees that could fall on them, residual branches from the removal process. (Ph...

Old-fashioned logging demonstration charms Lake Itasca visitors

entertainment / state Wed, Feb 25, 2009 - 4:00pm