1 / 5 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The Motor Vessel Miss Doris pushes 12 barges up the Upper Mississippi River in Wabasha, Minnesota, March 18. The tow is the first vessel of the 2020 ...

Upper Mississippi River freezes over less than ever, ... Its longest record of ice cover comes from Lake Pepin, a reservoir of the river that stretches 21 miles between Reads Landing and Red ...

The shipping season has opened much later than normal on the Upper Mississippi River, due to thick ice on Lake Pepin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the first tow of the season broke ...

While the water in most parts of the Upper Mississippi River flows unimpeded during the winter, the water slows down and freezes at the wide spot in the river — Lake Pepin — creating a nearly ...

LAKE PEPIN (WEAU) - The 2022 navigation season on the Upper Mississippi River is underway Monday. The M.V. W. Red Harris, with nine barges in tow on its journey from St. Louis, broke its way ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers measures Lake Pepin's ice thickness each February to estimate when barges can pass through the Upper Mississippi River. Brandon Olson, right, a survey technician ...

The upper Mississippi River as it snakes along Minnesota, ... Records from Lake Pepin dating back to 1843 show that ice thaws about two weeks sooner today than it did then.

The upper Mississippi River as it snakes along Minnesota, ... Lake Pepin, a reservoir of the Mississippi River that stretches 21 miles between Reads Landing and Red Wing, ...

Lake Pepin, a reservoir of the Mississippi River that stretches 21 miles between Reads Landing and Red Wing, Minnesota, is used as an indicator of when commercial shipping can start up again ...

Barge season closes on upper Mississippi River. ... The 2022 season started last March when a vessel broke through the ice on Lake Pepin on its way to St. Paul. This past year, ...

Upper Mississippi River freezes over less than ever, ... Its longest record of ice cover comes from Lake Pepin, a reservoir of the river that stretches 21 miles between Reads Landing and Red ...

The lake is a 500-acre backwater lake located in Upper Mississippi River Pool 4 between a string of main channel border ... Ice on Lake Pepin is the last major barrier that prevents tows from ...