Minnesota Discovery Center, Minnesota

Minnesota Discovery Center (formerly known as Ironworld Discovery Center), is an interpretive attraction built in and around an old iron pit and slag piles in the 1970s, as part of an early attempt to replace the shrinking mining industry with tourism. The wonderfully outdated and undervisited "Disneyland of mining" has different pavilions along a looped paved trail, mini golf, a Civilian Conservation Corps display, a pit overlook, an outdoor stage, and closed food stands. Iron World is a mining theme park, museum, and living history center in harmony with the dying industry of the Mesabi Iron Range.

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