Lift Bridge
Duluth is a seaport city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county
seat of St. Louis County. The city had a total population of 86,918 in
the 2000 census and the metropolitan census including outer suburbs and
villages was estimated to be roughly 184,000. At the westernmost point
on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is linked to the Atlantic
Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes and Erie
Canal/New York State Barge Canal or Saint Lawrence Seaway passages and
is the Atlantic Ocean's westernmost deep-water port.
Duluth forms a metropolitan area with Superior, Wisconsin, Called the
Twin Ports, these two cities share the Duluth-Superior Harbor and
together are one of the most important ports on the Great Lakes,
shipping coal, iron ore (taconite), and grain. As a tourist destination
for the Midwest, Duluth features America's only all-freshwater
aquarium, the Great Lakes Aquarium, the Aerial Lift Bridge which spans
the short canal into Duluth's harbor, "Park Point", the world's second
longest freshwater sandbar, spanning 6 miles, and is a launching point
for the North Shore.
