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Hosted by Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Industry Partnership · leisure · EN-US
Stories about the outdoor recreation experience in Minnesota. New episodes every other Thursday! Have an idea for a show? Let us know! Contact: randolph.briley@state.mn.us
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Signup to Generate a PitchStories about the outdoor recreation experience in Minnesota. New episodes every other Thursday! Have an idea for a show? Let us know!
Explore Minnesota More is hosted by Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Industry Partnership. The show has published 52 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Closing the gap: How Minnesota is opening its outdoors to everyone" (27 October 2026, 41 minutes), "40 Years on the Cannon Valley Trail" (13 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "Detroit Mountain - Basecamp for the Local Community" (30 September 2026, 47 minutes).
Explore Minnesota More publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 52 episodes.
Booking probability for Explore Minnesota More is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Explore Minnesota More requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Explore Minnesota More's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Explore Minnesota More are Fitness, Golf & Recreation. Explore Minnesota More has a leisure audience.
Minnesota Outdoor Recreation Industry Partnership hosts Explore Minnesota More, a leisure podcast with 52 episodes published.
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Episode #16
Send us Fan Mail Reaching a park’s parking lot isn’t the same as reaching its waterfall. This episode looks at how Minnesota became a national leader in outdoor accessibility and what’s next. Why it matters: For...
Episode #15
Send us Fan Mail The Cannon Valley Trail turns 40 this year. In this episode, we look at how a stretch of the old Chicago Great Western rail line along the Cannon River became one of southeastern Minnesota's favorite...
Episode #14
Send us Fan Mail Detroit Mountain has been a ski area in Detroit Lakes since the 1940s — and when it went dark in 2004, the community had a hole it couldn't ignore. Roughly a decade later, about a thousand donors helped...
Episode #13
Send us Fan Mail After thirty years of construction, the Mesabi Trail is complete — 165 paved, traffic-separated miles from the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids to the edge of the Boundary Waters in Ely. We talk with...
Episode #12
Send us Fan Mail Sugar Lake Lodge sits in the Sugar Hills near Grand Rapids, Minnesota — a property Abby Oxborough's family rebuilt from bankruptcy and rubble in the early '90s, drawing on generations of Minnesota...
Episode #11
Send us Fan Mail You're on island time now. It just feels different. The Northwest Angle is a geographic oddity — the only place in the contiguous U.S. you can't reach without crossing an international border — and one...
Episode #10
Send us Fan Mail In a town of about 9,000 people in Minnesota's northwest corner, one company has shared space with the place for more than 60 years. This episode tells the story of Arctic Cat and Thief River Falls — a...
Episode #9
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to walk a thousand miles across Alaska in winter — and finish wishing you could keep going? In this episode, we sit down with Kari Gibbons , a North Minneapolis artist, winter ultra...
Episode #8
Send us Fan Mail Guests: Lisa Luokkala , Executive Director, Superior Hiking Trail Association John Storkamp , Trail runner, race Director/owner of Rocksteady Running and volunteer crew leader on the SHT since 1995...
Episode #7
Send us Fan Mail For the first time, Outdoor Retailer — the outdoor industry's signature national gathering — is coming to Minneapolis. Running August 19–21, 2026 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, the show marks a...
Episode #6
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a major regional newspaper decides the outdoors deserves its own seat at the table? Randolph sits down with Mark Baumgarten, outdoors editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune, Travis Tufte...
Episode #5
Send us Fan Mail This episode is for the wonks out there. Outdoor recreation is a massive economic powerhouse in MN . It eclipses a number of traditional industries and yet few people (except for those of us who are rec...
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Send us Fan Mail What do New Mexico sand dunes, a snowmobile trail in International Falls, and single track in Cuyuna have in common? They're all part of the wild origin story of fat tire biking — and Minnesota is at...
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Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview What separates a community that has outdoor recreation from one that is defined by it? That's the question at the heart of this special episode, recorded live at world famous Explore...
Episode #3
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary What does it take to resurrect a ski hill that's been dormant for 15 years? In this episode, we sit down with the owner of Steeplechase Ski Area — a Rochester native who grew up racing...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a group of underground ice climbers — who spent decades wondering if their next visit to an abandoned quarry might be their last — decide to stop waiting and start organizing? You get...
Episode #1
Send us Fan Mail Winter in Minnesota isn’t something to survive—it’s something to explore. In this first-ever Listener Questions episode of Explore Minnesota More , host Randolph Briley, Deputy Director at Explore...
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with the inspiring team behind She Ascends , a fast-growing women’s hiking and wellness community that started right here in Minnesota and has already expanded across the...
Episode #21
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Explore Minnesota More we sit down with Brad Gausman and Julia Schrenkler from the Minnesota Conservation Federation to explore the Women in Conservation Leadership Program . The...
Episode #20
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we head to Lake City —where it all began—to explore the invention and evolution of waterskiing in Minnesota. Host Randolph Briley sits down with Betsy Anderson Gilman , competitive...
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