Hanger Hits The Road: Wrenshall, Minn.

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In this latest edition of Hanger Hits the Road, FOX 21’s Dan Hanger takes you to Wrenshall, Wis., where home-cooked meals are the thing.

Living in Wrenshall is like living on the farm.

The water tower is more like a fixture for the city of 400. But like most any place in farm country, the real activity is in the kitchen.

Longtime resident Byron Johnson owns the only restaurant in town called The brickyard.

“Wednesday we run walleye all the time. You know, you give them a really nice meal for a reasonable price, but it brings them back in over and over again,” Johnson said.

Wrenshall is nine miles southeast of Cloquet and just a quick drive to West Duluth, which local businesses are seeing as a good thing lately.

“The more the western end of Duluth gets revitalized … people don’t know how close we are. I mean, we are just 10 miles from the city limits,” explained Janaki Fisher-Merritt, a local farmer.

While farming is not the easiest in northern Minnesota, Fisher-Merritt feels this area is proving otherwise.

“I really value what we have here. The city itself has invested a lot of infrastructure. They’ve got open lots that are available, and I really feel like — between that, and we have a great school district here. We’ve got a lot to offer,” said Fisher-Merritt.

There’s history, too, with the bricks of the Brickyard literally from the old brickyards that made Wrenshall boom back in the day.

 “They wanted to have a pretty building in town and a place to socialize and gather,” Johnson said.

And that’s something that’s holding very true today for the whole family.

“Ya know, we like kids in here messing around. They’re fine. They don’t bother us. They bother the parents more than they bother us,” Johnson.