Title: Things to Do in Carlton County in 2026 | Expedia.com

# Things to do in Carlton County

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![Jay Cooke State Park, Carlton, Minnesota 4-17-2021 - Handsome Man standing on Bluff above the churning water of the Saint Louis River](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/553248635976433053/b77c93b0-3b6b-49d4-997e-95989e796e90.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=1040&h=580&q=mediumHigh)

![Jay Cooke State Park, Carlton, Minnesota 4-17-2021 - Handsome Man standing on Bluff above the churning water of the Saint Louis River](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/553248635976433053/b77c93b0-3b6b-49d4-997e-95989e796e90.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=1040&h=580&q=mediumHigh)

![Newly reconstructed Swinging Bridge at Jay Cooke State Park, Duluth, MN](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183407/cd74c16d-02ee-483b-9708-e73abd38efc3.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=1040&h=580&q=mediumHigh)

![I used to live on this road back when I was in elementary school. It was great to visit a place I had lived and see it with adult eyes. My own trip down memory lane. ](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183411/56c6676c-c3f4-4cd4-9688-cd22ad9d7a92.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=1040&h=580&q=mediumHigh)

![Early in 2016 I went whitewater Kayaking with Hard Water Sports in Sandstone, Minnesota. I was really looking forward to it, but by the time I got there my nerves were picking up and I was starting to get pretty scared. I ended up wiping out three times in the middle of the rapids, but you gotta get back on the horse after you fall off, as they say. ](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/553248634983556275/c9199c62-d3eb-4501-9fe9-93e04fa02df9.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=1040&h=580&q=mediumHigh)

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## What to do in Carlton County

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## Popular day trips from Carlton County

![Duluth showing sailing, a coastal town and a bridge](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/1029/091e30e7-8925-48b8-9a0e-aaf6302eadca.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Duluth

![The Brilliant Fall Colors of Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior in a Panoramic View](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/9943/09451361-d15b-4f40-9537-88bad34da318.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Superior

![Newly reconstructed Swinging Bridge at Jay Cooke State Park, Duluth, MN](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183407/cd74c16d-02ee-483b-9708-e73abd38efc3.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Carlton

![I used to live on this road back when I was in elementary school. It was great to visit a place I had lived and see it with adult eyes. My own trip down memory lane. ](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183411/56c6676c-c3f4-4cd4-9688-cd22ad9d7a92.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Cloquet

![Freizeitparadies vor den Toren Berlins: Bootsanleger am Großen Storkower See - Panorama aus 2 Einzelbildern](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183439/e1cee335-5a2b-4dd7-a25b-b91e3e94a6e9.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Sturgeon Lake

![Early Morning, Eyrie Isle, McGregor Bay, Lake Huron](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/183453/eaec3549-e7bd-49f9-b2e4-082e02ebb991.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### McGregor

![Moose Lake, Wisconsin](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/602087/8d0321de-95b7-45b5-b506-f3cf23fcab2d.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Moose Lake

![Aerial Lift Bridge - Duluth](https://images.trvl-media.com/place/6035386/a89996df-fda0-43ae-8d04-6719462490db.jpg?impolicy=fcrop&w=512&h=288&q=medium)

### Hermantown