Welcome to Canal Park Hotels! Our goal is to provide the best options for your hotel stay in the beautiful northern areas of Duluth, MN! Whether your trip is for business or pleasure, we strive to provide exceptional service from the start of our secure online reservation system to the last night of your hotel stay! Our top-rated hotels ensure a comfortable atmosphere, and are often located near popular attractions, shopping centers, and local night-life activities! Whatever your visit to Duluth entails, we're sure you'll find our informative Duluth Guide and hotel booking options useful!
Canal Park is the centerpiece of Duluth, anchoring its fabulous lake front. It joins downtown to the lake, serves as the gateway to Park Point, hosts a major portion of the lakewalk, adjoins the convention center and Bayfront Park, and offers shopping, restaurants, and entertainments. Duluth Minnesota is located at the westernmost tip of Lake Superior, halfway between Minneapolis/St. Paul and the Canadian border, and was originally settled by Sioux (Dakota) and Chippewa (Ojibwa). The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,918 in the 2000 census and 84,397 according to July 1st, 2007 census estimates. The Duluth MSA had a population of 275,486 in 2000. At the westernmost point on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is linked to the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles 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 longest freshwater sandbar, spanning 6 miles, and is a launching point for the North Shore. By the end of the nineteenth century, Duluth was a thriving city.
Duluth was home to more millionaires per capita than any other city in the world, and had become a favorite summer playground for the rich and the famous of the day. Magnificent manor homes and Victorian mansions welcomed family and friends to lavish social events. At the turn of the century, the city's port passed New York City and Chicago in gross tonnage handled, elevating it to the leading port in the United States. Meanwhile, there were ten newspapers, six banks, and an eleven-story skyscraper, the Torrey Building, already present in the town. In 1907, U.S. Steel announced that a $5 – $6 million plant would be constructed in the area. Although steel production only began eight years later, predictions held that Duluth's population would rise to 200,000 to 300,000. With the Duluth Works steel plant came Morgan Park, a once-independent company town that now stands as a city neighborhood.
