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Snowmobile trails around Detroit Lakes lead to cozy hangouts with classic comfort food Forum News Service food critic Eric Daeuber recently went off the beaten path near Detroit Lakes, Minn., to visit a favorite restaurant that keeps its helmeted clientele warm and full each winter. Written By: Eric Daeuber | × Snowmobile trails lead to all kinds of places in Minnesota. Eric Daeuber / Forum food critic DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The cartography of snowmobile trails north of Detroit Lakes, Minn., looks like the brain map of someone cold and confused. There are mile...

The Thunder Burger basket ($11.99) is a standard choice at Ice Cracking Lodge. Eric Daeuber / Forum food critic The menu is what you might expect of an up-north resort that doesn’t know how to be pretentious. But it’s also what you were hoping for. The Thunder Burger is the half-pound beef patty served in all the variations you’d expect of a bar burger, including combinations of bacon, Swiss cheese, pepper jack and barbecue sauce that give you the no-nonsense burger names you see on menus all across the Midwest like California Thunder Burger and Bacon Thunder Burger. Mercifully missing ...