MINNESOTA - Last minute travel specials to Minneapolis, St Paul, and Duluth.

Minneapolis and St Paul - Minneapolis, along with its sister city St. Paul, makes up the largest metro area in Minnesota. But what really put the Twin Cities on the map is the Mall of America. Where else in the world are you going to find over 500 stores, an amusement park, an aquarium, a dance club and countless restaurants? If you're still up for some more shopping, check out Nicollet Mall! Four blocks of pure shopping -- what could be better than that?.

If shopping doesn't hold your interest, Minneapolis is filled with museums and historic sites that can keep you busy for days. Go back in time to visit a working farm from the mid 1800s, take a tour of the home of the first governor of the territory, or wander along an 1880s stone bridge. Numerous cultural and arts offerings can be found every day of the year.

Minneapolis loves its sports, too. Minneapolis is home to major league baseball's Minnesota Twins and the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. So before you the leave the Twin City, try to take in a game. But make sure you are prepared for cold weather walking to watch the Vikings in the Dome, because highs in January average only 20 degrees F.

More last minute travel to Minneapolis - An unexpected treasure that astonishes first-time visitors, Minneapolis offers all the sophistication you’d expect from a major urban destination, combined with a natural lushness that ’ll draw you in. Minneapolis is the most fun city in the nation, the most literate city in the country, third on the list of Esquire magazine's "Cities that rock." These are just a few of the distinctions that Minneapolis has earned in the last year. And that's just the tip of the iceburg..

Minneapolis was named the “Most Fun City in America” by Money Magazine ’s “Best Places to Live” expert Bert Sperling, the cleanest city by Travel and Leisure Magazine, second-healthiest city in the country, ASH anti-smoking magazine, second best city in the country for running according to Runner’s World magazine, and third best city for families according to Child Magazine.

In addition Minneapolis boasts the largest enclosed mall in the country (the Mall of America); more theater seats per capita than any city other than New York; local theaters called one of the “most interesting tourist attraction[s] in America," according to travel guru Arthur Frommer; more golfers per capita than any city in the country; and the only national scenic byway located entirely in an urban area.