North Oaks, MN Home for Rent

To describe North Oaks, Minnesota, as “pastoral” would be an understatement. Ten miles north of St. Paul in Ramsey County, this roughly 8-square-mile exurb spent decades as untouched farmland after James Jerome Hill bought it in the 1880s. It has since developed into a private city of over 5,000 people, with luxury homes and an exclusive golf club. Yet, it retains a strong, agrarian feel all these years later. “North Oaks is kind of for people who want to live out in the woods of Minnesota but need to be within 20, 30 minutes of the airport,” s ...