The Chain of Lakes: Minneapolis’s Crown of Water
Ask a Minneapolitan where the city goes to breathe and the answer sparkles: the Chain of Lakes, five linked jewels strung through southwest Minneapolis and...
Category : Places
Minnehaha Falls: Minneapolis’s 53-Foot Urban Waterfall
Five minutes from the airport and a short light-rail ride from downtown, Minnehaha Falls pours over a limestone bluff in a silver curtain, right in...
The Grand Rounds: America’s Most Beautiful Urban Drive
Most cities have a scenic drive. Minneapolis has a 51-mile necklace: the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, a continuous loop of parkways, lakes and river bluffs...
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden: Minneapolis’s Oldest Public Garden
Botany teacher Eloise Butler began planting this glen in 1907, hauling wildflowers in by streetcar to create what became the oldest public wildflower garden in...
Theodore Wirth Regional Park: Minneapolis’s Wild Green Giant
At 759 acres, Theodore Wirth Regional Park is Minneapolis’s largest park — bigger than New York’s Central Park — and its wildest: a rolling landscape...
Mill Ruins Park and the Riverfront Mills: Beauty From the Flour Era
In the 1880s, Minneapolis milled more flour than any city on Earth — and Mill Ruins Park is where that empire’s bones became a garden....
Nicollet Mall: Minneapolis’s Grand Downtown Promenade
Twelve blocks of downtown Minneapolis belong to people, not cars. Nicollet Mall, the city’s pedestrian promenade since 1967 and beautifully rebuilt in 2017, threads cafés,...
St. Anthony Main and the Riverfront: Where Minneapolis Was Born
Before there was Minneapolis, there was St. Anthony — a lumber town that grew up beside the only waterfall on the Mississippi. Its Main Street...
Stone Arch Bridge: Minneapolis’s Golden Path Over the Mississippi
Built in 1883 for James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway, the Stone Arch Bridge curves across the Mississippi on 23 graceful stone arches — the...
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: The Spoon, the Cherry and 60 Works of Joy
Every city deserves a symbol as joyful as this one: a 1,200-pound cherry balanced on a giant spoon that sprays water into a pond. Claes...
