• Shop at the Mall of America (website: www.mallofamerica.com), the largest entertainment and retail complex in the USA and still growing. Attractions at the Mall include Camp Snoopy (the largest indoor theme park in the USA), the LEGO Imagination Center and Underwater Adventures, a 5.4-million-litre (1.2-million-gallon) walk-through aquarium.

• Play at Spirit Mountain (website: www.spiritmt.com), a year-round holiday and outdoor recreation centre close to Duluth.

• Travel the spectacular North Shore Drive (website: www.lakesuperiordrive.com) (US Highway 61) following the north shore of Lake Superior for 240km (150 miles) from Duluth to the Canadian border. It was designated an ‘All American Road' for its unique, scenic beauty.

• Stay at one of the major resort areas such as the towns of Bemidji, Brainerd, Detroit Lakes, Grand Rapids and the Lake Mille Lacs area.

• Take in a Broadway show. The Twin Cities offer more theatres than any other US metropolitan area outside New York City, with more than 100 theatre companies. Broadway shows and theatrical events are performed at the restored Historic Orpheum Theatre, Historic State Theatre and the Historic Pantages Theatre in the Hennepin Theater District (website: www.hennepintheaterdistrict.org) in downtown Minneapolis.

• Canoe in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (website: www.bwcaw.org) in the Superior Natural Forest.

• Enjoy winter sports offered in abundance due to the state's strategic northern location. Skiing, ice-skating, sledding, ice fishing, dog sledding and snowmobiling are all available.

See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.