Ely Minnesota is a beautiful vacation getaway for you, your friends and your family. Ely Minnesota has the outfitters, guides, resorts, hotels, lodging and activities to create a memory that will last your family a lifetime. This site contains a wealth of information about Ely MN, The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Northern Minnesota. Please look around and feel free to contact us if there is something you would like to see here or if you have any questions about coming to Ely Minnesota for a visit.
Ely is a Vacation Destination
Ely Minnesota truly is a northwoods getaway. Everything about Ely is special. There are dozens of highly skilled guides who can take you deep into The Boundary Waters and have you catching walleyes in no time. There are several excellent outfitters for those of you who like to get out in the woods on your own. If getting out into the middle of the wild for a week isn't the thing for you, Ely has a great selection of Hotels, Motels and Resorts to stay at. There are many choices to choose from and many of them offer canoes and boats if you just want to get out and fish on a lake. If shopping is your thing, we have that in the Northwoods too. There are dozens of cute little gift shops with unqiue items that you'll only find in Northern Minnesota. We also have all the resources you need while your away from home, from grocery stores to technology stores and excellent coffee houses, Ely has the resources to provide for your needs. While you're in Ely, be sure to stop by some of our many fine restaurants. We have a wide variety to fit every appettite. Ely Minnesota is an excellent place to get away on your own, vacation with some friends or bring the whole family up for an experience they will never forget. We look forward to seeing you here!
In case there is even a shadow of a doubt, we would like to make it clear Ely is a great place to live and there certainly is room for a few more families.
A local Realtor asked last week if we would be willing to speak to a potential new resident, answering questions on the area’s future, in specific the larger mining-related projects.
It was an interesting conversation, covering topics such as the proposed nonferrous mining projects being advanced by Polymet and Franconia Minerals.
What went unsaid and basically assumed by both parties is that Ely is a great place to live and raise a family.
The concern was how would it continue to be able to support things we take for granted now - such as an independent school district, a local hospital and various businesses in the community.
We believe that no matter what nonsense we hear from Sierra Club members in Duluth with no background in mining or its potential environmental impacts, there will be nonferrous mining in our area and it will be done in a way that will be safe, both for the people who work there and for the ground that it impacts.
The maze of permitting requirements these mining companies are currently going through cover issues that were never even thought of 20 years ago.
That’s good, we want agencies such as the DNR and MPCA to look out for the public’s health and the environment.
And we also understand the economic issues surrounding those needed minerals. As the value of the minerals such as platinum, palladium and copper continue to rise, the cost of removing them cleanly and efficiently is mitigated.
There will be jobs created in the Babbitt area, either by Polymet, Franconia or through the Mesabi Nugget project, of that there is no doubt. When will they happen? That, we hope, is sooner and not later.
Area community leaders meet to discuss the impact of these projects. They talk about housing needs, schools, infrastructure and even the social impacts of new families moving into the area.
These meetings will prove to be beneficial in the future when the first of these proposed efforts reaches a level of economic feasibility and passes all of the required studies and permits.
The Ely area will be part of this because we offer a great quality of life in a community that has amenities others do not.
This gentlemen was concerned about affordable housing, specifically outside of the city limits. He was talking about lakeshore, an area where the market has skyrocketed.
But our housing stock in and around Ely is really very affordably priced. This is not Aspen where the people who work in the shops and businesses have to be bussed in because they can’t afford to live there.
If you want to live on a lake, Ely offers that as well, just at a much higher price. But we believe the total package available here is worth the price. Jobs will be created here, families will move in and Ely will flourish.
