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

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 ...

Check out these fun, educational and free opportunities to get outdoors in our area's state parks, wildlife refuges and more.

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.

The Mississippi River starts at Itasca State Park. Water levels in Minnesota are fine for now, but the low levels south of St. Louis are leading to problems for Midwestern farmers who use the ...

You’ll find the Mississippi at its narrowest point at its headwaters in Lake Itasca, where it’s between 20 and 30 feet. The river’s widest point is only about 50 miles east, at Lake ...

Either way, the old riverboat Chester Charles II isn't puttering around Lake Itasca, namesake of the uber-popular park near Park Rapids that famously serves as the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

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 ...

The Mississippi River starts at Itasca State Park. Water levels in Minnesota are fine for now, but the low levels south of St. Louis are leading to problems for Midwestern farmers who use the ...