Hey! Fellow Minnesotan here!
If you’re like me you love a good list and challenge. And why not apply that to your honey 🙂
This is a list from A-Z of Minnesota based date ideas.
We came up with 100+ ideas for us that we want to share with you!
The Rules:
- At least 1 date per month for the alphabet
- Letter is determined by the activity, location or concept
- Pictures or it didn’t happen!
How to Work the Challenge
Each month sit down and pick a date (or two). Put it on the calendar with a plan.
Knowing your day of the week and time of day, season (potential weather) will help in figuring out your activity.
For example: we tried to go on a night time swan boat ride at Nokomis. We waited until dark, only to get there and it was too windy.
The activity or location will likely choose the letter. If there are dates you’d like to prioritize plan those first.
It is really hard to move dates around once you’re 50% in. Dates will likely fit more than one letter, but pick one and stick to it.
Happy Dating! 🙂
A – D Date Ideas
A
- Airbnb
- Axe Throwing (Bad Axe and Norseman Distillery)
- Archery
- Alice and Wonder Land Tea – Mad Hatter in Anoka
- Anoka Halloween
B
- Brookview Golf Course Winter Curling
- Brother Justin Whiskey Company
- Bingo at Mystic Lake
- Back Channel Brewery
- Burrow Oakdale
- Beach
- Boundary Water
- Boom Island Park
C
- Cocktails at Side Car
- Comedy Show (Comedy Corner Underground)
- Cathedral of St. Paul
- Centennial Lakes Park Mini Golf
- Candle Making Class Roseline’s Place
- Hotel Crosby in Stillwater
D
- Dancing
- Demolition Derby
- Drive- In
- Distillery
- Double Date
- Duluth, MN
E -H Date Ideas
E
- Escape Room
- Emery Acres Flower Farm (pick your own bouquet)
- Eloise Butler Flower Garden
- Excelsior, MN
F
- First Ave for a concert
- Fort Snelling
- Build a fort at home
- Farm
- Foraging – raspberries or mushrooms
G
- Graze Provisions and Liberations
- Glamping
- Golf
- Ghost Tour
- Game night
H
- Hastings, MN
- Hope Breakfast Bar
- Hewing Hotel rooftop bar
- History museum
- Hiking
I – L Date Ideas
I
- Ice Skating at Centennial Lakes
- Ice Castles
- Ice cream
J
- Jordan, MN (Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store)
- Jazz at the Dakota
- James J Hill House
- Jacuzzi
K
- Kingsfield Neighborhood Farmer’s Market
- Flying kites
- Knitting
- Kayaking
L
- Lake day
- Line dancing
- Laser Tag
- Library
- Lat 14 Asian Eatery
- Litt Pinball Bar
M – P Date Ideas
M
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Massage
- Museum
- Minnehaha Falls
N
- Lake Nokomis – night time swan boats
- Nerf Guns
- Night time walk
- Nautical bowls
- Nelson’s Ice Cream
O
- Orchestra
- Orchard
- Observatory
- Oldest Pub (Neumann’s)
P
- Paisley Park
- Photo shoot
- Painting
- Pottery class
- Pumpkin Patch
- Pat’s Tap for Skee-Ball
- Paddle boarding on Bde Maka Ska
Q – U Date Ideas
Q
- Queso
- Quest
- Question Game
- Quarry
- Quartz – Drusy quartz makes up Crystal Cave in Spring Valley, WI
R
- Riverboat in Stillwater, MN
- Rollercoaster – Nickelodeon Universe or Valleyfair
- Rafting
- Road-Trip
S
- Sculpture garden
- Science museum
- Stargazing
- Side Car
- Stone Arch Bridge
- Staycation
- Sunset/sunrise
T
- Top Golf
- Snow Tubing
- Ties Rooftop Bar Brunch
- Treasure Island Casino
- Tattersall Distillery
U
- Upstairs Circus
- Up- Down Arcade
V – Z Date Ideas
V
- Vertical Endeavors
- Vineyard
W
- Warehouse Winery
- Walker Art Museum
- Wild Game
- Wabasha Street Caves
- Walking Tour
X
- Xbox
- X-mas market
- X-mas tree decorating
Y
- Young Joni
- Yoga
- Yurt
Z
- Zoo
- Ziplining
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