Editing Duluth, Minnesota (section)

==Arts and culture==
Duluth's museums include the Duluth Children's Museum in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Founded in 1930, it is the fifth-oldest of its kind in the nation. It features interactive exhibits, educational programs, and opportunities for creative play designed for children, their families and caregivers, and school field trips. The museum also curates an artifact collection of over 25,000 objects drawn from the lives and cultures of people who have resided in the region, particularly American Indians and immigrants. Other museums include the [[Tweed Museum of Art]] at the [[University of Minnesota Duluth]] and the [[Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum]].[[File:Duluth Central High School (1892).jpg|thumb|right|[[Historic Old Central High School]]]]

The [[Historic Old Central High School]], a city landmark built in 1892, housed a museum dedicated to the school's history until its sale to developers in 2022. The old school features a {{convert|230|ft|m|adj=on}} clock tower with chimes patterned after [[Big Ben]] in London; the clock faces are each {{convert|10+1/2|ft|m}} in diameter, overlooking the Duluth harbor. It is listed with the [[National Register of Historic Places]], which says, "Old Central is a very fine example of that traditionally rich architectural style known as [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] and is certainly the most outstanding structure of its kind to be found in northern Minnesota."<ref name="Cavin">{{Cite web |last=Cavin |first=Brooks |date=June 20, 1972 |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Duluth Central High School |url={{NRHP url|id=72001488}} |access-date=June 2, 2019 |publisher=National Park Service}} With {{NRHP url|id=72001488|photos=y|title=two accompanying photographs}}</ref>

The premier community art center is the [[Duluth Art Institute]], with galleries, a fiber studio, and a darkroom in the [[Duluth Depot|Depot]] downtown, as well as ceramic and multi-purpose studios in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Several art galleries are also downtown and in Canal Park. The [[Duluth Public Library]] has three locations. Duluth is home to a professional [[ballet company]], the [[Minnesota Ballet]]. It shares a symphony orchestra—the [[Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra]]—with Superior, Wisconsin. In the summer, free concerts are held in Chester Park, where local musicians play for crowds. The Bayfront Blues Festival is held in early August.

Duluth is home to several theater companies, including The Duluth Playhouse, one of the country's oldest operating community theaters. Founded in 1914, the Playhouse's main offices and two of its theaters are housed in the Depot Building on Michigan Street. The Playhouse has a comprehensive theatrical season on multiple stages, including Duluth's [[Nor Shor Theater|NorShor Theatre]]. It also has a renowned education program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Duluth Playhouse &#124; Since 1914 |url=http://www.duluthplayhouse.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408002105/https://duluthplayhouse.org/ |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |access-date=May 22, 2019}}</ref>

The NorShor Theatre is a historic [[movie palace]] on Superior Street that was restored for use as a performance venue. The century-old venue is generally considered a local landmark. After 19 months of construction and renovations, it opened in 2018 with a 600-seat, stadium-style, balconied, live-performance auditorium; a bar; and a lounge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theatre Historical Society of America |url=http://www.historictheatres.org/orpheum-norshortheatreduluth-mn/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140620082814/http://www.historictheatres.org/orpheum-norshortheatreduluth-mn/ |archive-date=June 20, 2014 |access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=NorShor Website |url=http://www.norshortheatre.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811004604/http://www.norshortheatre.com/ |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |access-date=June 20, 2014}}</ref>

Since 2004, Duluth has celebrated [[Gay Pride]] with a [[Gay Pride Parade|parade]] on [[Labor Day]] weekend. Since 1998, the city has held the [[Homegrown Music Festival (Duluth)|Homegrown Music Festival]] in the first week of May; it features over 170 local musical acts performing across the city. The Junior Achievement High School ROCKS–Battle of the Bands showcases middle-school and high-school bands from central Minnesota to the Canada–U.S. border and northern Wisconsin at the [[Duluth Entertainment Convention Center]] (DECC) in mid-April. Duluth also hosts the [[Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards]], honoring books about the region.

===Attractions===
[[File:Duluth Canal Park Lakewalk.jpg|thumb|left|Duluth [[Canal Park (Duluth)|Canal Park]] Lakewalk]]

[[Canal Park (Duluth)|Canal Park]] is a district with recreation activities, restaurants, cafés, hotels, and shops, especially those dealing in antiques. Formerly a warehouse district, the area converted to a recreation-oriented district following the decline in manufacturing in the 1980s. A {{convert|2.6|mi|km|adj=on}} walking path offers views of Park Point's sand dunes and swimming beaches and the lighthouse pier. The path passes under the Aerial Lift Bridge, a vertical [[lift bridge]] spanning the [[Duluth Ship Canal]] into Duluth's harbor. It was originally an exceedingly rare [[Transporter bridge|aerial transfer bridge]]—a bridge that slides a basketlike "gondola" back and forth to transfer people and vehicles from one side to the other. The wreck of the [[SS Thomas Wilson|''Thomas Wilson'']], a classic early-20th-century [[whaleback]] ore boat, lies underwater less than {{one2a|{{convert|1|mi|km}}}} outside the Duluth harbor ship canal.

The Duluth Lakewalk, expanded and improved beginning in the 1980s, is a seven-mile walking/biking path that begins in Canal Park and follows the lakeshore, crossing through Leif Erikson Park and the Duluth Rose Garden, and ending at the Bayfront Festival Park, an area with a covered pavilion where festivals, concerts, and other events are held.

Duluth is the starting point for the [[North Shore (Lake Superior)|North Shore of Lake Superior]] scenic route that runs from Duluth, at the southwestern end of the lake, to [[Thunder Bay]] and [[Nipigon]] in the north and [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Ste. Marie]] in the east. The route was already a popular tourist destination after 1855 when the Great Lakes lock system first allowed steamboats onto the lake and eastern tourists began to travel onto Lake Superior for recreational purposes. By the mid-1870s, many excursion boats, coastal steamers, and ferries ran along the North Shore, primarily out of Duluth and Thunder Bay. After docking in Duluth, tourists often canoed or were ferried up the North Shore, staying in hunting and fishing camps and later hotels and small cabins.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Minnesota's Lake Superior |url=http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/mpdf1.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218045534/http://www.mnhs.org/places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/mpdf1.php |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |access-date=March 16, 2020 |website=Minnesota Historical Society}}</ref>

====Great Lakes Aquarium====
[[File:GreatLakesAquarium.jpg|thumb|right|[[Great Lakes Aquarium]] with lift bridge in background]]

The [[Great Lakes Aquarium]] is in the Duluth Waterfront Park. A freshwater [[public aquarium|aquarium]], it features animals and habitats found in the Great Lakes Basin and other freshwater ecosystems such as the [[Amazon River]]. The aquarium houses 205 different species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. It is one of the few aquariums in the United States to focus on freshwater exhibits.

====Lake Superior Maritime Museum and Visitor Center====
The Great Lakes Maritime Museum and Visitor Center contains historical exhibits, maritime artifacts, and a recreation of a ship's pilot house, cabins, and staterooms with life-size mannequins that speak to the visitors. In the pilot house, children can pretend to command the ship using a ship's steering wheel and other instruments. The exhibits contain artifacts from the many sunken ships in the Duluth harbor; one exhibit tells the story of the {{SS|Edmund Fitzgerald}}, which sank in a November gale after departing from the Duluth Superior port. There is also a small movie theater and a viewing room where visitors can watch the ships arriving in the harbor and find arrival times of the ships that will arrive throughout the day.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 10, 2015 |title=Lake Superior Maritime Museum and Visitor Center |url=http://www.goduluthmn.com/best-duluth-attractions/maritime-museum/ |access-date=January 18, 2022 |website=Duluth MN.com}}</ref>

====William A. Irvin Ship Museum====
After transporting coal and iron in the Great Lakes for more than 40 years, the {{SS|William A. Irvin}} was docked in Duluth and serves as a preserved example of the shipping history of the Great Lakes. As the [[flagship]] of U.S. Steel's Great Lakes Fleet, she provided what has been called the "comfort and elegance to dignitaries and guests who traveled the Lakes with her" while hauling materials from Two Harbors and Duluth to U.S. Steel's respective mills on Lake Michigan in Ohio and on Lake Erie in Indiana.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 26, 2019 |title=Vintage Duluth |url=https://dplreference.wordpress.com/2019/04/26/ss-william-a-irvin/ |access-date=January 29, 2022 |website=Duluth Public Library}}</ref>

====Lake Superior Railroad Museum====
[[File:Duluth Depot.jpg|thumb|[[Duluth Depot]]]]
The [[Lake Superior Railroad Museum]] is in the [[Duluth Union Depot]]. It has seven steam, 14 diesel, and two electric locomotives, as well as over 40 other pieces of rolling stock. The collection includes the [[William Crooks (locomotive)|William Crooks]], the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota, and the [[Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway]] Number 227, a [[2-8-8-4|Yellowstone]] locomotive that was among the largest steam engines ever. Only 18 Yellowstones were ever built; Duluth exhibits one of the three that remain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE LOCOMOTIVE WILLIAM CROOKS |url=http://zenithcity.com/archive/historic-industry/the-locomotive-william-crooks/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523181731/http://zenithcity.com/archive/historic-industry/the-locomotive-william-crooks/ |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |access-date=May 30, 2018 |website=Zenith City Online}}</ref>

====North Shore Scenic Railroad====
The [[North Shore Scenic Railroad]] is a [[heritage railway|heritage railroad]] that operates between Duluth and [[Two Harbors, Minnesota]]. It is owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and offers several different types of passenger excursion trains between May 28 and October 15 each year. The railroad was started in 1990, using the Lakefront Line once owned by the [[Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway]].

====Fitger's Brewery====
[[File:Fitger's Brewery Museum 02.jpg|thumb|Copper brew kettle installed in 1901, at the [[Fitger's Brewing Company|Fitger Brewery Museum]]]]

The [[Fitger's Brewing Company|original brewery]] was built in 1857 on a stream that came to be known as Brewery Creek; it was purchased by Michael Fink in 1881 and moved downstream to its present location on Superior Street. [[Fitger Brewing Company|Fink's Lake Superior Brewery]] hired a new [[brewmaster]], August Fitger, a graduate of one of Germany's premier brewing schools, and the brewery was renamed A. Fitger & Co. / Lake Superior Brewery. The brewery then became successful and stayed in operation even through [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], but closed in 1972 after 115 years of operation, making it Duluth's oldest business. The complex reopened in 1984 and contains a [[Microbrewery|craft brewery]], several restaurants, hotels, shops, and a museum. Fitger's Brewery Complex is listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fitger's |url=http://fitgers.com/fitgers-history/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710133750/http://fitgers.com/fitgers-history/ |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |access-date=July 26, 2017}}</ref>

====Glensheen Mansion====
[[File:Glensheen Mansion.jpg|thumb|[[Glensheen Mansion]]]]

The [[Glensheen Historic Estate]], on the shore of Lake Superior, was built as the family home for wealthy businessman [[Chester Adgate Congdon]]. Glensheen sits on {{convert|7.6|acre}} of lakefront property, has 38 rooms, and is built in the [[Jacobean architecture|Jacobean]] architectural tradition, inspired by the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] styles of the era. The building was designed by Minnesota architect [[Clarence H. Johnston Sr.]], with interiors designed by William French. The formal terraced garden and English-style landscape was designed by the [[Charles Wellford Leavitt]] firm of New York. Construction began in 1905 at a cost of $854,000 (about ${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US|854000|1905}}}} in {{inflation-year|US}} dollars) and was completed in 1908. Aside from its architectural significance, Glensheen is noteworthy for the murders of [[Elisabeth Congdon]] and her nurse on June 27, 1977. The mansion is open to tours year-round.

====Lake Superior Zoo====
The 16-acre [[Lake Superior Zoo]] offers year-round recreational activities and features animals from around the world, including Amur tigers, snow leopards, African lions, brown bears, kangaroos, gray wolves, and a variety of birds, reptiles, primates and barnyard animals. The zoo offers learning programs and regularly features special events.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lake Superior Zoo - Among Top Duluth, MN, Attractions |url=http://www.lszoo.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530025500/http://www.lszoo.org/ |archive-date=May 30, 2013 |access-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref>

====Enger Tower====
[[File:Enger Tower.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Enger Tower]]]]

[[Enger Tower]] is an {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=on}}, five-story blue stone observation tower atop Enger Hill in Duluth. The tower provides panoramic views of the Twin Ports from lookouts accessible by stairs, and a green beacon is mounted atop the tower.

====Hawk Ridge fall raptor count====
Duluth is in the path of many avian [[flyway]]s and migratory birds that pass over the area in great numbers. [[Hawk Ridge, Duluth|Hawk Ridge]], on [[Skyline Parkway]], is ideal for viewing migratory [[Bird of prey|raptors]]. According to the [[Minnesota Department of Natural Resources]], Hawk Ridge has attracted visitors from all 50 states and 40 countries, from Labor Day through October. Volunteers and licensed bird banders capture raptors in nets and band them while large crowds gather to observe the capture and release.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bird Monitoring Fall & Spring Bird Migration Counts |url=https://www.hawkridge.org/research/bird-monitoring/ |access-date=January 27, 2022 |website=Hawk Ridge}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bird Banding |url=https://www.hawkridge.org/research/bird-banding/ |access-date=January 27, 2022 |website=Hawk Ridge}}</ref>

====Gichi-Ode' Akiing====
Just off the Lakewalk is a park named Gichi-Ode' Akiing; the name is Ojibwe for "a grand heart place".<ref>{{Cite news |last=News Tribune |date=May 30, 2019 |title=Ceremony Friday to rename Lake Place Park as Gichi-ode' Akiing |work=Duluth News Tribune |publisher=Duluth News Tribune and Forum Communications Company |url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/incoming/1354590-Ceremony-Friday-to-rename-Lake-Place-Park-as-Gichi-ode%E2%80%99-Akiing |url-status=live |access-date=April 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308130812/https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/incoming/1354590-Ceremony-Friday-to-rename-Lake-Place-Park-as-Gichi-ode%E2%80%99-Akiing |archive-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref> The [[Duluth City Council]] approved the name change from Lake Place Park in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kraker, Dan |date=June 1, 2019 |title=Duluth renames city park in the Ojibwe language |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/01/duluth-renames-city-park-ojibwe-language |url-status=live |access-date=April 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305200957/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/01/duluth-renames-city-park-ojibwe-language |archive-date=March 5, 2020}}</ref> A memorial to [[Kechewaishke]], also known as Chief Buffalo, honors his symbolic petition carried to president [[Millard Fillmore]] in 1849.<ref name="WIHS">{{Cite web |date=December 2003 |title=Symbolic Petition of the Chippewa Chiefs |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM1871 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927134605/https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM1871 |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |access-date=April 4, 2020 |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref> Kechewaishke signed the [[Treaty of La Pointe#1854 Treaty of La Pointe|1854 Treaty of La Pointe]] a year before his death, with the provision that {{convert|1|sqmi|km2|spell=in}} of land at the corner of Lake Superior be given to his adopted son [[Benjamin G. Armstrong]].<ref name="Justia">{{Cite web |date=March 2, 1885 |title=Prentice v. Stearns, 113 U.S. 435 (1885) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/113/435/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927020225/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/113/435/ |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |access-date=April 3, 2020 |publisher=Justia}}</ref> Known as the Buffalo Tract, Armstrong's land comprised part of today's downtown Duluth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gichi-Ode' Akiing (Lake Place Park) |url=https://duluthmn.gov/parks/parks-listing/lake-place-park/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017064059/https://duluthmn.gov/parks/parks-listing/lake-place-park/ |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |access-date=April 3, 2020 |publisher=City of Duluth}}</ref>

===Events===
====Duluth Airshow====
The Duluth Airshow, founded in 2001, is held each summer at the [[Duluth International Airport]] and is Minnesota's largest airshow.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Duluth Airshow - Duluth, MN : Duluth Airshow |url=https://www.duluthairshow.com/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=www.duluthairshow.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Participants have included the [[Blue Angels]], [[United States Air Force Thunderbirds|US Air Force Thunderbirds]], [[F-22 Raptor Demo Team]], and [[Snowbirds (aerobatic team)|Canadian Forces Snowbirds]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Drew |first=David|title=Duluth Airshow Earns Another Industry Award |url=https://b105country.com/duluth-airshow-earns-another-industry-award/ |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=B105 |date=January 28, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

====John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon====
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[[File:John Beargrease Dogsled Marathon - Two Harbors Minnesota (32708009705).jpg|thumb|2017 [[John Beargrease Dog Sled Race|John Beargrease Dogsled Marathon]]]]

The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, named for winter mail carrier [[John Beargrease]], is an annual sled dog race that runs from Duluth to [[Grand Portage]]. Beargrease and his brothers were among the first to carry mail between Two Harbors and [[Grand Marais, Minnesota|Grand Marais]], going by dogsled, boat, and horse for almost 20 years before the towns were connected by road. Competitors can choose between two distances: a {{convert|400|mi|km|adj=on|0}} round trip between Duluth and the [[Boundary Waters Canoe Area]]—or a {{convert|150|mi|km|adj=on|0}} course from Duluth to [[Tofte Township, Minnesota|Tofte]]. The race begins at Billy's Bar in northeastern Duluth.<ref>[https://www.startribune.com/john-beargrease-sled-dog-marathon-starts-with-wide-open-field/600141327/ Beargrease sled dog marathon starts with wide field of contenders] ''Star Tribune''. January 2022</ref><ref>[https://www.wdio.com/news/beargrease-sled-dog-marathon-ryan-anderson-colleen-ero-wallin/6378259/ Looking back at the Beargrease: A recap of the 38th running] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203185803/https://www.wdio.com/news/beargrease-sled-dog-marathon-ryan-anderson-colleen-ero-wallin/6378259/ |date=February 3, 2022 }} WDIO</ref><ref>[https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/ryan-anderson-wins-his-fourth-beargrease-sled-dog-marathon Ryan Anderson wins his fourth Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon] ''Duluth News Tribune''</ref><ref>[https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/02/02/the-grueling-300-mile-beargrease-sled-dog-race-is-a-family-tradition-for-colleen-wallin For Colleen Wallin, the grueling, 300-mile Beargrease sled dog race is a family affair], ''Mprnews.org''</ref> Run every January since 1980, it is regarded as a training ground for Alaska's larger and more elite [[Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE JOHN BEARGREASE SLED DOG MARATHON |url=https://beargrease.com/ |access-date=December 9, 2021 |website=Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon}}</ref>

====Magic Smelt Parade====
In May, Duluthians celebrate the annual [[Smelt (fish)|smelt]] run with the Magic Smelt Parade along the city's lakewalk. It is a family-oriented affair conducted in the manner of a New Orleans [[Second line (parades)|Second Line Parade]], with a "Main Line" led by a small brass band followed by the "second liners" who walk and dance behind the band. The Smelt Parade's second liners wear silver hats, capes, and other costumes related to smelt. A Smelt King and Smelt Queens also take part in the parade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kraker |first=Dan |title=Lake Superior smelting tradition continues, despite new pollution concerns |url=https://www.mprnews.org///2022/05/12/lake-superior-smelting-tradition-continues-despite-new-pollution-concerns |access-date=September 4, 2022 |website=MPR News|date=May 13, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Magic Smelt Parade |url=https://magicsmelt.com/ |access-date=September 4, 2022 |website=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gabler |first=Jay |date=May 3, 2022 |title=Smelt Parade returning to Duluth's Lakewalk after 2-year hiatus |url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/smelt-parade-returning-to-duluths-lakewalk-after-2-year-hiatus |access-date=September 4, 2022 |website=Duluth News Tribune}}</ref>

====Grandma's Marathon====
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[[File:Al Franken and Wesley Ngetich Kimutai in the 2007 Grandma's Marathon.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Al Franken]] and [[Wesley Ngetich Kimutai]] in the 2007 [[Grandma's Marathon]]]]

Since 1977, Duluth has hosted Grandma's Marathon, a race held annually in June. Named after its original sponsor, Grandma's Restaurant, it draws runners from all over the world. The course starts just outside [[Two Harbors, Minnesota]], runs down [[County Road 61 (St. Louis County, Minnesota)|Old Highway 61]] (the former route of [[Minnesota State Highway 61|Highway 61]] along the [[North Shore (Lake Superior)|North Shore]] of [[Lake Superior]]), and finishes in one of Duluth's tourism neighborhoods, [[Canal Park (Duluth)|Canal Park]]. The same route is also taken during the North Shore Inline Marathon, held in September, which also draws racers from all over the world.

====Christmas City of the North Parade====
Each year in November, the Christmas City of the North Parade takes place in Duluth. The parade dates to 1957, when the holiday shopping season ran particularly short. Wanting to extend Christmas shopping days, Bob Rich—who owned the former WDSM-TV at the time, now [[KBJR-TV]]—came up with the idea. Since then, the parade has marched through downtown Duluth annually on the Friday night before Thanksgiving. The event has survived pouring rain, snow, and frigid cold. Even in years when instruments were too cold to produce music, the bands became choirs to provide music instead. Recorded by [[Merv Griffin]] in 1962, the "Christmas City" song is the parade's signature sound. According to Rich's grandson, the song was written by a local resident, and his grandfather asked his friend Griffin—at that time not the well-known TV personality he became—to sing the song and put it to music.<ref>[http://christmascityparade.com/ Christmas City of the North Parade:<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904072214/http://christmascityparade.com/ |date=September 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[http://christmascityparade.com/2010/11/grandson-of-christmas-city-parade-creator-shares-history/ Grandson of Christmas City Parade Creator Shares History | Christmas City of the North Parade<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902015321/http://christmascityparade.com/2010/11/grandson-of-christmas-city-parade-creator-shares-history/ |date=September 2, 2013}}</ref>

====Bentleyville Tour of Lights====
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Since 2009, the Bentleyville Tour of Lights decorates the Bayfront Festival Park during November and December with over 5,000,000 lights. A free lighting display, it has been called the United States' "largest display of Christmas lights" that patrons can walk through.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tour of Lights |url=https://www.bentleyvilleusa.org/visitor-guide/ |access-date=October 11, 2022 |website=2022 Bentleyville Visitor Guide}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nissen |first=Jack |date=November 15, 2018 |title=Duluth traditions return: Bentleyville Tour of Lights and the Christmas City of the North Parade |url=https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/community/duluth-traditions-return-bentleyville-tour-of-lights-and-the-christmas-city-of-the-north-parade |access-date=October 11, 2022 |website=Duluth News Tribune}}</ref>