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In this Duluth Local Scoop issue…
🌲 The Munger Trail's open again — with a brand-new bridge
🚧 West Superior Street's getting a $33 million rebuild
🦞 A Cajun seafood boil and free dancing by the lake this week
⛅ Warm days, then storms roll in for the weekend
Trivia: Park Point is the longest freshwater sandbar in the world — about how many miles does it stretch out into the lake? (Answer at the bottom!)
Events — your week ahead
Thursday, July 9
Beer Gardens at Great Lakes Aquarium — 5–8 p.m. · Great Lakes Aquarium · Every Thursday in July they set up an outdoor beer garden right on the waterfront. Grab a drink and watch the boats. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra: The Wilderness Letters — 7 p.m. · UMD Marshall Performing Arts Center · The summer orchestra series is back, this one built around wilderness writings. A quieter night out if the beer garden's not your speed. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Friday, July 10
Superior Seafood Boil with the Ragin' Northern Cajun — 5–8 p.m. · Earth Rider Brewery, Superior · A proper Cajun seafood boil out on the fest grounds. Bring an appetite and some napkins. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Dances on the Lakewalk — 7–8 p.m. · Duluth Rose Garden · Free outdoor dancing down by the water. No partner or experience needed, just show up. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Block Printing Class with Wild Kidd — 5:30–8 p.m. · Lake Superior Zoo · Make your own block print and hang out at the zoo after hours. Good one for the crafty crowd. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Saturday–Sunday, July 11–12
Lutsong Music Festival — all weekend · Caribou Highlands, Lutsen · If you've got the weekend free, it's worth the drive up the shore — music on two stages, a vendor village, food and a winery. Runs Thursday through Sunday. · 📅 Add to Calendar
Weather
Thursday and Friday are the good ones — warm, on the muggy side, highs bumping into the low 80s inland and cooler if you're right down on the lake. Then the weekend turns: showers and a few rumbles of thunder look likely Saturday night into Sunday, so if you're headed up the shore or out to a patio, pack the rain jacket. We could actually use it — a chunk of northern Minnesota's been running dry, and the weather service has parts of the region under a drought watch. Full forecast at National Weather Service Duluth.
The Munger Trail's open again — with a new bridge
The West Duluth stretch of the Willard Munger State Trail reopened July 1 after being closed since November. Crews pulled the old Knowlton Creek culvert and dropped in a 100-foot steel truss bridge, then restored about 200 feet of the creek to help out the brook trout that live there. Short version: your West Duluth bike-and-walk route is back, and the crossing's a lot nicer than it was. Read more →
West Superior Street's getting a $33 million redo
The council signed off on rebuilding about 1.65 miles of West Superior Street through the Lincoln Park craft district. Northland Constructors came in low at roughly $33.3 million — a few million under the estimate — and a $7.6 million state grant helps cover it. The work goes in three phases through 2028, starting near Michigan Street. If you drive or shop that stretch, plan on some detours for a while. Read more →
The city wants to make building homes easier
Right after the big downtown plan, the council's now looking at rewriting some zoning rules to make it simpler to build housing — especially multi-family places and homes on Duluth's smaller, oddly-shaped lots. Nothing's locked in yet. The idea is to cut some red tape for builders and chip away at how hard it is to find a place to live around here. Same housing push you've been hearing about, now down in the fine print. Read more →
Bayfront Reggae is back for its 20th year
One to circle: the Bayfront Reggae & World Music Festival is back July 18 for its 20th run at Bayfront Festival Park. This year's lineup has Teejay, Jesse Royal, Rik Jam, the International Reggae All Stars and Sound of Fujin. It's been going since 2006 and only skipped 2020, and it's still one of the better ways to spend a summer Saturday by the water. It's next weekend, so plan ahead. Read more →
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Trivia answer: About 7 miles. Park Point (a.k.a. Minnesota Point) is the longest freshwater sandbar in the world, running roughly seven miles out into Lake Superior. That's your walk if you ever decide to do the whole thing.
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