Day Hiking Trails: Active Times highlights author's beach hike

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Active Times highlights author's beach hike

Iona's Beach, a (pink) jewel of Minnesota's North Shore.

The Active Times today highlighted a North Shore spot I mention in my hiking guidebooks. “Beaches So Spectacular You'd Visit Them in a Sweater” includes Iona’s Beach, a span of pink pebbles along Lake Superior just north of Two Harbors, Minn. The article also includes a picture I took of the shoreline.

Iona’s Beach is mentioned in my guide Headin’ to the Cabin: Day Hiking Trails of Northeast Minnesota and receives a full write-up in my soon-to-be-released book Day Hiking Trails of Gooseberry Falls State Park.

Side note: One of the other beaches mentioned in the article – Moonlight Beach – was only a half-mile from where I used to live in greater San Diego and garnered weekly visits from my son and me!

Learn about trail guidebooks available in the Hittin’ the Trail series.

Meet the Author

My name is Rob Bignell. I'm a long-time hiker, journalist and editor. My son Kieran and I have been hiking together for the past decade. Before Kieran, I taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin, served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard, and worked in newspapers. I've won several journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which I served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin’s Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Currently I own and operate an online editing business, Inventing Reality Editing Service. After spending several years in Southern California, my son and I now live in Wisconsin on the scenic Red Cedar River.