Meadowlands is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
Meadowlands, as its name would suggest, is one of the few areas of arable land in Saint Louis County.
While Meadowlands prospered and grew due to the support it provided to the region's farms, the steady decline in those same farms (and the large families they supported) during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s heralded the beginning of the town's gradual decline.
During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership (which also carried New Holland farm machinery), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution.
The rivers, lakes, fields and arboreal bog areas around Meadowlands offer visitors the opportunity to view species ranging from small song birds, such as the waxwing, to Bald Eagles.
Also winter brings with it increased snowmobile traffic, as a former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad line runs along the eastern edge of the town.
Now converted to an ATV–snowmobile trail, this former rail line runs from Alborn in the south, north to Pengilly on the Iron Range.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.39 square miles (1.01 km2), all land.
Meadowlands is near "Sax–Zim Bog" which is home to some of the world's best winterbirdwatching, including resident Great Gray Owls.