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Our View: Enjoy parks season and keep them pretty

Cloquet’s parks are the envy of many, with plenty of recreation areas for outdoor activities as varied as team sports, hiking, playing on playgrounds, skating, skiing and camping. Many of our prize attractions are located along the Highway 33 corridor, with high traffic from tourists who drive through our city in droves, on the way to other destinations.

We’d like to start focusing on keeping a few more of those tourists in town. Encouraging them to visit our parks is a good place to start.

We recently were encouraged that The Beach at Pinehurst Park is reopening this summer, and its convenien...