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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's City of Lakes Loppet Winter Festival! This was one of the best Loppet festivals yet, conditions-wise. The week leading up to the event saw a string of low temperatures which nicely set the large snow...

by Rosie Frankowski, 2018 Olympian from Minneapolis With the Fastenal Parallel 45 Winter Festival and Coop FIS Cross Country World Cup Sprint Finals coming to Theodore Wirth Park this March, many people are interested in knowing who will make the U.S....

by Nikki Miller Two of our former TRAIL KIDS athletes competed in the 2019 MN Cross Country Class AA State Championship in November. This was the first (but certainly not the last!) state meet for middle-schoolers Sydney Drevlow (7th grade) and Sam Scott...

Tickets for the Fastenal Parallel 45 Winter Festival and Coop FIS Cross Country World Cup Sprint Finals on Tuesday, March 17th, are selling quickly, and you only have a few days left to buy them at their current low price of $25! We are stockpiling snow...

The culture of American sporting events oftentimes revolves around tailgating the big event, so it only seems right that skiers should have the opportunity to tailgate the first World Cup on American snow in 20 years! Any high school, collegiate, or...

The Loppet Foundation is excited to announce our new partnership with Boulder Nordic Sport (BNS). The nationally-recognized ski shop has formally opened their new Midwest location today in The Trailhead at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis. BNS has...

The Loppet Foundation is seeking proposals for managing and operating the cafe concession in the Trailhead. Services sought in the concession include sales of things like coffee, beer and wine, and food. Proposals might also include catering for events...

The temperature on Saturday was brisk, but that made the inaugural Fastenal Parallel 45 Cup Rollerski Loppet feel like a World Cup cross-country ski race -- similar to the one we are preparing for this March! Plus, the extra clothing layers the...