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Not only are there amazing Canal Park restaurants and breweries, but it is the central hub for Duluth sightseeing and home to many of the other top-rated Duluth attractions.
Canal Park is experienced by parking in one central open-air parking lot from which everything is then accessible on foot.
It has both a wooded pedestrian boardwalk, as well as an asphalt pathway perfect for bikes, rollerblades, and skateboards. This gigantic steel vertical lift bridge is impossible to miss, along with hearing its blaring horns that sound when a ship or larger vessel passes underneath. It takes 1 minute for the bridge to rise to its full height of feet and averages 26 lifts per day during the busy spring and summer months.
Though most people walk up to the bridge from below in order to watch ships pass by, you can also walk across the bridge for a unique and more exhilarating experience! The museum depicts the history of Lake Superior and its shipping industry, as well as provides fun facts about the canal.
