Preparing kids for summer camp includes more than packing lists and stocking up on sunscreen. Campers’ health and well-being at day or sleepaway...
Outdoors
The New Year Rings in New Changes at the Lafayette Club
The country club continues to embark on new and exciting improvements. Lake Minnetonka’s Lafayette Club has undergone, and continues to plan, many...
Welcome Winter at Light up the Commons
Annual community event embraces the season. The season sparkles and shimmers with special events, and Ridgedale Commons, 12590 Ridgedale Drive, is...
Fun on the Rocks With Skybrothers Paragliding
Frozen Lake Minnetonka serves a wintry mix of outdoor activities. When Lake Minnetonka—in all its dynamic beauty—sits right in your community...
Emperors of Excelsior Learn From the Lake
Paul Frantzich wasn’t a fan of the cold. But taking an icy plunge for the first time four years ago during a frozen Minnesota February, he suddenly...
Gather, Glow, Give at Light Up the Lake
Light Up the Lake, Wayzata’s annual holiday spectacular, welcomes the community. Connect with neighbors and celebrate the beginning of the holiday...
The Wayzata Boo Bash Dash Is Frightfully Fun
Wayzata’s Boo Bash offers family-friendly competitions, community events and scary-good food. The Wayzata Boo Bash Dash returns on October 25 in...
Three Fun Fall Recipes To Cook Over a Campfire
Some food just tastes better cooked over an outdoor fire. Let’s be clear; we will always support s’mores as the bonfire foodie champ. No doubt. No...
Scary Delicious Recipes for Halloween Firepits
Placing a portable firepit front and center of Halloween candy distribution efforts is becoming de rigueur for some families. Driveways and extended...
Minnesota Bound Celebrates 30 Years on Air
The outdoor adventure show shares a profound love of nature with viewers. Ron Schara’s professional background started as a journalist with the...
Into the Woods With Foraging Expert Alan Bergo
Alan Bergo didn’t set out to become a nationally known foraging expert—he just loved food and great ingredients. During his junior year at Wayzata...
Chef and Author Alan Bergo Discusses Mushroom Hunting
The Forager Chef educates on how to discover a wild harvest in your neck of the woods. If you’ve ever been on a woodland hike and noticed a cluster...
Minnetonka Yacht Club Hosts Dinghy Championship Week
The Inland Lake Yachting Association brings its championship regatta to the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Over 250 sailors, along with family and...
Spirit of the Lakes Brings Festival Fun to Surfside Park
Popular festival returns this summer with fresh and familiar events. Spirit of the Lakes is set from July 17–19 at Surfside Park, 2670 Commerce...
Tips for Staying Hydrated This July
July is historically the hottest month in Minnesota, responsible for 40 percent of all 90-degree days, according to the Minnesota Department of...
X Marks the Spot
Visit some of my favorite spaces to read, create and just be. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a favorite spot to read, reflect or...
Lafayette Club Embarks on an Exciting New Partnership
The historic club has entered into a reciprocity agreement with Windsong Farm Golf Club. For over a century, the iconic Spanish Mission-style...
Explore the Sprawling Gardens of a Deephaven Home
Retired landscape architect Barbara Burgum highlights native species in her Deephaven gardens. The 1905 Craftsman home on the shores of Lake...
101 Years and Counting at Orono Orchards
Orono golf course’s history is on par. Your golf course has some history when cut hayfields served as fairways and borrowed tomato cans, spade into...
Hidden Sculptures, Bursts of Joy
The famed Harrison Sculpture Garden at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum often gets the lion’s share of the buzz for outdoor art. And it deserves...
