Car hire Grand Forks Airport

Grand Forks International Airport serves North Dakota's third-most populated city, whose downtown area lies just across from Minnesota and five miles southeast of the airport with car hire in Grand Forks Airport. This airport's size may be relatively small, but its FAA control tower is the 23rd busiest in the United States due to the presence of the University of North Dakota's aerospace sciences school.

Grand Forks Airport facilities

The John D Odegard aerospace sciences school accounts for about 90 per cent of the airport's total flight traffic. However, the airport also offers several daily non-stop flights to Minneapolis as well as weekly flights to the warmer cities of Las Vegas, Phoenix and Arizona. Places to buy souvenirs, eat, compare car hire and simply wait for flights also lie within the airport terminal.

Grand Forks Airport excursions

Grand Forks is 74 miles north of Fargo and 145 miles south of the Canadian city of Winnipeg with car rental in Grand Forks Airport. The much smaller Minnesota town of East Grand Forks is located directly across the Red River from Grand Forks. The heavily wooded Turtle River State Park lies 22 miles west of the flat prairie landscape of Grand Forks, while Larimore Dam Recreation Area & Campground is 30 miles west of the city.

Best time to visit

Few landscapes on Earth are as flat as the prairies surrounding Grand Forks. These flat plains, a tremendous distance from mountains or large bodies of water, give Grand Forks a humid continental climate, with bitterly cold winters and hot humid summers. Thunderstorms happen often in summer and the temperature usually becomes markedly cooler after early September's Labour Day holiday. Grand Forks is especially vulnerable to Red River flooding in spring.

Car rental in Grand Forks Airport

The north to south Interstate 29 meets the east to west US Highway 2 in Grand Forks. US Highway 81 is the city's only other significant highway. The historic Grand Forks dividing route, Demers Avenue, stands next to the rail yards. Most Grand Forks north to south roads are listed as streets, while most east to west routes are named avenues.