Winter Highlights Along the St. Croix River
Escape to the peace of small towns and wide-open spaces during a weekend exploring the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Where treetops glisten
Spend a winter weekend along the snowy banks of the St. Croix River, and you'll find a mix of holiday bustle and time-honored traditions.
Stillwater, Minnesota, and Hudson, Wisconsin, the busiest towns on the St. Croix, have a sugarplum-magic to them in December. Visitors flock here from the Twin Cities (just a half-hour southwest) to peek in shop windows, curl up in cozy bookstores and linger over holiday feasts. People eager to slow down even more take a wintry drive along the silent St. Croix, a 165-mile-long waterway traveled by fur traders and Scandinavian settlers, Chippewa and Sioux.
Click ahead for highlights of a winter visit to the St. Croix River. Pictured at left: Stillwater tucks into the valley like a toy town in a model railway.
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