WINONA, Minn. – The Winona Visitor Center at the Huff causeway entrance to Winona reopens for the season Friday. April hours: 10 to 3 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Visitors or not, the nearby pylon-mounted sort-of-to-scale steamboat eyecatcher with the illuminated turning paddlewheel at its stern has been steaming toward town all winter.

Welcome. Fittingly clad in local Biesanz stone at the main Lake Winona gateway to the city.