Flood Bay State Wayside
Two Harbors, MN
Flood Bay State Wayside is a big crescent of stones on Lake Superior about a mile and a half northeast of Two Harbors, reached from a state wayside rest on Highway 61. It's one of the most popular agate beaches on the North Shore, where rockhounds also find quartz, prehnite, and other stones weathered out of the local basalt.
A classic, easy-access agate beach right off the highway, though popularity means it's well picked over.
How we score beachesHunt with the sun behind you and look for the waxy glow of an agate in the wet stones.
Free parking at the Highway 61 wayside.
A short walk from the wayside lot to the stones.
Spring after ice-out and fall after big storms turn over the most stones. Summer brings more rock hunters but calmer water.
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