I Love It Here!
Web Sites in This Area
Thanks for visiting Web Sites in This Area!Over the years, I've found and organized the websites of many businesses and organizations in central Minnesota, focusing on the needs and interests of folks visiting this region. This page became too big to handle the hundreds of stores, theaters, museums, brew pubs, or whatever, with at least a page or two on the Web. Now there's something better:
There's a new directory in town, called Minnesota for Web-Wise Travelers is designed for folks who want to check out stores, theaters, museums, brew pubs, or whatever, before they travel to or through an area. It's a growing directory of businesses, organizations, and towns with one thing in common: they're interested enough in Web-savvy folks to have created a website. |
| Colleges and Universities |
| Libraries |
| Medical Facilities |
| Newspapers |
| Places to Recreate |
| Amusement Parks | |
| Golf | |
| Race Courses | |
| Movie Theaters | |
| Resorts and related services |
| Places to Shop |
| Places to Sleep |
| Places to Visit |
| Museums and historical, locations | |
| Parks, trails, gardens & zoos | |
| Other |
| Places to Worship |
| Radio and Television |
| Specialists |
| State Sites: Road Conditions and Public Safety |
| Tech. Businesses |
| Towns and Cities |
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What is "This Area?"
Most of these Web sites are from
the area I call Centerland, with St. Cloud near one end and
Fargo-Moorhead near the other. The north side runs by Little Falls, Park
Rapids and Detroit Lakes, the south side is near Willmar, Benson and
Wahpeton-Breckenridge. It is centered on the I-94 corridor, starting
about an hour northwest of the Twin Cities in Minnesota and ending
around Fargo, North Dakota.
To organize this page, I divided Minnesota into four areas:
- Minnemetro, the area from the Twin Cities metropolitan area to near St. Cloud
- Loonland, the northern part of
Minnesota
(includes Flatland, Lakeland, and Oreland on the map) - Grainland, the agricultural southern part of the state
- Centerland, an area where the grasslands of the south become the lake-spattered woods of the north.
Loonland has three parts: Flatland (the Red River Valley), Lakeland (the northern part of Minnesota lake country), and Oreland (the Arrowhead region).
Descriptions of links involving places outside Centerland are
followed by a marker:
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You'll notice a few links to locations and services in North Dakota. The locations are in the Red River Valley, very near the Minnesota border. The services are travel information sites which I included, because of North Dakota's proximity to "Centerland" and "Loonland."
Finally, something of a disclaimer: There is nothing official about the terms Minnemetro, Loonland, Grainland, Centreland, Flatland, Lakeland, or Oreland. I made them up, and defined their boundaries, to help present the links on this page.
Brian H. Gill, webmaster, Brendan's Island, May 30, 2004
When you use the following
links, you are leaving Brendan's Island.
I have made every effort to ensure
that they are appropriate for most teens and adults. However:
I have no control
over these websites, and therefore am not responsible for their content.
Brian H. Gill.
Minnesota
State University Moorhead 
North Dakota
State University