Work at Itasca State Park, Mississippi River will start in after tourism season. By Tim Harlow. September 8, 2020 at 10:18AM.

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Mississippi Solo is a great fish-out-of-water book about one man’s journey to canoe the Mississippi. He starts out in Itasca State Park with snow falling and on his first night wakes up to a ...

The Mississippi River, just downstream from its headwaters at Lake Itasca State Park in Minnesota (John Snell). Part of the poetry of this place is knowing what the river becomes.

Itasca State Park is home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Photojournalist Tom Aviles takes us to this timeless place and the heart of one of America's largest rivers.

They arrived on July 13. “Schoolcraft did officially discover it,” said Sandra Lichter, an Itasca State Park naturalist who is well versed in the headwaters' history.

ITASCA STATE PARK, Minn. - Steve Holewa went to see the headwaters of the Mississippi River on Monday night. Who knew it would be a story of a lifetime. Holewa and a companion were halfway back to ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is planning a shoreline restoration project to address erosion at the headwaters of the Mississippi River within Itasca State Park.

The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the U.S., and over 30 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces drain into it. ... while Itasca State Park says that the river is 2,552 miles long.

I'm a son of South Dakota, born in Sisseton, which is not far from Veblen. OK. I'm not truly a South Dakotan. My home town is Browns Valley, Minn., barely across the state boundary ten miles east ...