Arriving at Hibbing Range Regional Airport in Hibbing puts regional highlights within easy reach. Hibbing is the biggest town on the Minnesota Iron Range, a place that moved itself two miles south in the 1920s so the mine could keep digging, and it raised Bob Dylan, Roger Maris, and Kevin McHale along the way. The feel is blue-collar, proud, and surrounded by lakes and pine.

Standout things to do around Hibbing: - Look into the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine View, one of the largest open-pit iron mines in the world - Tour Hibbing High School and its ornate 1920s auditorium, built with mining money - See the Bob Dylan exhibit at the Hibbing Public Library and drive past his boyhood home - Visit the Greyhound Bus Museum, where the bus line started as a miners' shuttle in 1914 - Walk the ghost streets of North Hibbing, the original townsite - Bike the paved Mesabi Trail across the Iron Range - Explore the Minnesota Discovery Center in Chisholm for Iron Range history - Order a porketta sandwich or a pasty, the Range's immigrant comfort foods

Hibbing sits in the middle of the Range, with Chisholm ten minutes away, Virginia and Eveleth about 30 minutes east, and Grand Rapids and the Judy Garland Museum 45 minutes west. The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, the Soudan Underground Mine tour, and the ski hills of Giants Ridge are all within an hour. Duluth is about an hour and 15 minutes southeast, and Ely and the edge of the Boundary Waters are about an hour and a half. Potica, sarma, and a Friday fish fry round out the menu. Hibbing is the Range at its most real.