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Select a tour destination from the drop down and choose a date to narrow down your search. Cancellation Policy: Canceling a tour reservation seven or more days prior to arrival results in a full refund of tour fees paid. Tour reservations canceled less than seven days in advance results in the forfeiture of all tour fees.
Tour admission fees vary depending on age, from free to $5.00. Tours of the woolen mill and Watkins family home offer a unique glimpse into both industrial and domestic life in the 1870s. The woolen mill is the only 19th century textile mill in North America with its original machinery still intact, making it a National Historic Landmark and a National Mechanical Engineering Landmark. Tours of the mill include the engine shed, where the original steam engine is located, the first three floors of woolen mill machinery, the gristmill and the mill store. The Watkins family home was completed in 1854 and has been restored to its 1870s appearance. Tours of the home include the first two floors of the home, the dairy cellar, summer kitchen, icehouse, smokehouse, fruit dry-house, garden and poultry. Please wear appropriate footwear and dress for the weather.
Minnesota state park tours take you underground, back in time, or into the future! Beginning April 1, 2015, you'll be able to reserve tickets for tours at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park and Soudan Underground Mine State Park.
Take an underground tour of the last and deepest underground mine at Soudan Underground Mine State Park, half a mile below the earth, or tour the underground high energy physics lab where physicists from around the world are trying to answer questions about the universe. Or take a caving tour of Minnesota's longest cave at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, and check out cave formations and underground pools and passages.
Learn more about tours on the DNR website.