Floating down the peaceful St. Croix River in a canoe, you'd never know you are close to the busy Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. The St. Croix and Namekagon rivers, which together make up the St ...

I thought a canoe trip down the St. Croix River would offer enough adventure ... campsite locations to pinpoint where we were on the map we got from the rental place. But that didn’t occur ...

on the St. Croix south of Stillwater, Minn. By then the riverway was already a favorite for fishing, canoeing and camping, and an organization sprouted up to protect the river. Wisconsin Sen.

After his first canoe ride, Harvey Klinger was laughing like he had just climbed out of a dunk tank. “It was tippy!” said Klinger, wet and grinning with his friends on the banks of the St ...