Mall of America®
Shopping mall · Bloomington ·
Hundreds of stores, theme park, cinema, aquarium, and dining options
Hundreds of stores, theme park, cinema, aquarium, and dining options
"Shopping here is an event in itself, and winter is the time to roam its vast corridors without the peak‑season crush." - Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman Lauren Dana Ellman is a New York-based writer and editor who specializes in travel, lifestyle, food, and shopping content. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"A behemoth of all retail shopping, the Mall of America is the massive retail destination I point visitors toward when guiding people through the Twin Cities." - Eater
"The annual Lunar New Year Celebration at the mall features a wide array of on-site Asian cuisine alongside special displays and performances, making it a central, family-friendly place to experience festive food and cultural programming during the holiday week." - Serena Maria Daniels
"I can shop at the Mall of America, noted as America’s largest shopping mall with more than 500 stores, making it a major Minneapolis draw." - Patricia Doherty Patricia Doherty Patricia Doherty is a writer who specializes in covering destinations, resorts, and cruises for Travel + Leisure and other publications. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"The nation’s largest shopping mall, located in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened in 1992 as a purpose-built entertainment destination featuring a 7-acre indoor amusement park, multiple movie screens, and dozens of restaurants; it draws roughly 40 million visitors a year and helped anchor regional tourism. A later, roughly $325 million luxury expansion added an adjoining hotel, upscale retailers, and a strategy to centralize dining, which prompted tenant relocations and the loss of certain immersive features at long-running eateries. As big malls confront e-commerce and changing habits, this complex has both reinvented itself around experiential attractions and faced the reality that nostalgia for older, theatrical tenants remains a valuable draw." - Justine Jones