With Minnesota winters, that means dealing with the dreaded freeze-thaw system. And even historic buildings like the Split ...

Split Rock Lighthouse wasn't a tourist destination for Beulah Covell-Myers - it was home for much of her childhood. The daughter of Franklin Covell, one of only two head Split Rock lighthouse keepers, ...

The Minnesota Historical Society said crews are wrapping up a project that included a new sensor system to better regulate ...

An iconic site on the Lake Superior shoreline will be briefly closed to tourists this spring for repair and restoration. Construction at Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors will start May 5, the ...

Midweek Moment: Split Rock from below Split Rock and photography are like peanut butter and jelly New summer tours at Split Rock Unauthorized drone disrupts fire response at Split Rock Lighthouse ...

When Lee Radzak started to write a book about the job he held for 36 years, his wife, Jane, wasn’t sure how important or necessary their family’s experiences were to the narrative. “To me, we just ...

Split Rock Lighthouse was spun from a dark day. “Split Rock was born out of a – really, actually a horrific storm in 1905,” Keeper Hayes Scriven said. “It was a really bad November gale, and it caught ...

LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — A full-sized replica of Split Rock Lighthouse's third-order Fresnel lens — like the one that occasionally casts its beam out over Lake Superior — is among the highlights of the ...

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park Campground on Lake Superior was No. 3 on the list, while Scoria Pit campground in western North Dakota checked in at No. 8. The Dyrt camping app has named Split Rock ...

LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — It’s a sunny August Saturday at Split Rock Lighthouse historical site in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. There’s a line out the lighthouse door of visitors eager ...

For the first time in the four-decade history of the ceremony, attendance had to be capped: 2,000 tickets were sold. Family members of at least two crewmen who lost their lives on the Fitzgerald were ...