Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
www.thehappygnome.com
;
498 Selby Ave; from 11:30am; )
Seventy craft beers flow
from the taps, best sipped on the fireplace-warmed outdoor patio. The pub sits across the
parking lot from the St Paul Curling Club.
Entertainment
Fitzgerald Theater
THEATER
( 651-290-1221;
www.fitzgeraldtheater.org
; 10 E Exchange St)
Where Garrison Keillor tapes
his radio show
A Prairie Home Companion
.
Ordway Center for Performing Arts
CLASSICAL MUSIC
( 651-224-4222;
www.ordway.org
; 345 Washington St)
Chamber music and the Minnesota
Opera fill the hall here.
Xcel Energy Center
HOCKEY
(
www.wild.com
; 199 Kellogg Blvd)
The Wild pro hockey team skates at Xcel.
Shopping
Common Good Books
BOOKS
(
www.commongoodbooks.com
; 38 S Snelling Ave; 9am-9pm Mon-Sat, 10am-7pm Sun)
Garris-
on Keillor owns this bright bookstore where statues of literary heroes stand guard over
long shelves of tomes. It's west of downtown on the Macalester College campus.
Information
Visitor center
( 651-292-3225;
www.visitsaintpaul.com
;
75 W 5th St; 10am-4pm Mon-Sat,
from noon Sun)
In the Landmark Center; makes a good first stop for maps and DIY walk-
ing tour info.
Getting There & Around
St Paul is served by the same transit systems as Minneapolis. See
Click here
for details.
Union Depot (
Click here
) is the hub for everything: Greyhound buses, city buses, the
Green Line light-rail service and Amtrak trains.
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