Soudan Underground Mine State Park

               
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Area and County

St. Louis County

 

 

 


Size

1,322 acres statutory, 1,014 owned

 
 
Maps

Minnesota DNR Summer Map

 
Parking

N47 49.157, W92 14.589

 
Hiking Trails

5 miles
0.3 mile interpretive trail

 
Hunting

No hunting


Ecological Classification

Province

Laurentian Mixed Forest Province

Ecological Classification

Section

Northern Superior Uplands

Subsection(s)

Border Lakes

Land Type Association(s)

Ely-Knife Lake Bedrock Complex

Vermilion Bedrock Complex

 
Native Plant Communities1 None or no information available
 
Natural Features

Mixed forest


Ownership

 
Links

Minnesota DNR


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Visits

5/27/2011

   

 

 

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  Soudan Underground Mine State Park virtual tour
MinnesotaDNR
 
   
 
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Uploaded on Nov 9, 2009

Take a virtual tour of the underground mine and physics lab at Soudan Underground Mine State Park in northern Minnesota. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_park...

 
     
  Soudan Underground Mine State Park (MN) - Shaft #8 elevator lift
Jim Federline
 
   
 
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Published on Jan 17, 2014

This is video I shot in the lift house for the elevator in shaft #8 in the Soudan Underground Mine that tourists take to go a half-mine underground for the mine tour. The mine became a Minnesota State Park after US Steel donated the mine to the State of Minnesota.

 
     
  Cantus - Soudan Mine - Sonic Architecture: Exploring Minnesota Through Sound
Classical MPR
 
   
 
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Uploaded on May 4, 2011

Sonic Architecture: Exploring Minnesota Through Sound. Cantus performs in 2300 feet underground in the depths of the Soudan Underground Mine State Park. The former iron mine near Ely, MN is also host to a large University of Minn. physics lab.

This video was recorded in DTS Neural Surround and you can listen in surround sound on any home receiver. Go to Classical MPR's DTS page for more information: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/cms/dts.shtml

 
     
  Soudan Physics Lab Tour
hotrod8983
 
   
 
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Published on Aug 15, 2013

In the summer of 2013 our daughter was fortunate enough to score an internship at the Soudan Underground Physics Lab in northeastern Minnesota. One of her duties was to give tours such as this one.

 
     

 

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Birds

One tracked bird species has been seen here:

 

Tracked

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

 
 

Minnesota DNR Bird checklist


Plants

University of Minnesota Herbarium Plant List


 

 

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