Meet Becca, Our New Community Forestry Corps Member

Becca is the new Community Forestry Corps Member serving Mississippi Park Connection for the 2020-2021 year!

parkconnectionOctober 13, 2020

Mona Smith, a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota, reveals the truth of what happened to the Dakota people and makes them visible in their homeland today through her art.

parkconnectionOctober 12, 2020

New Hiking Trail Loops at Coldwater Spring

Check out these new hiking trails at Coldwater Spring near the Mississippi River in Minneapolis! Baltimore Oriole Loop, Scarlet Tanager Loop, and the Indigo Bunting Loop.

parkconnectionOctober 7, 2020

Distance Learning: Stepping Up to the Challenge

When the pandemic began limiting in-person education earlier this year, our park education team had an opportunity to pivot in a new direction to provide opportunities for distance learning.

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Rare Drawdown of Mississippi River Below St. Anthony Falls

During the week of October 5, you will have a rare opportunity to see what parts of the Mississippi River looked like before it was altered by the lock and dam.

parkconnectionSeptember 30, 2020

Meet Mike, Our New GreenCorps Member!

Meet Mike, the new 2020-21 Minnesota GreenCorps member with Mississippi Park Connection!

parkconnectionSeptember 28, 2020

Women of the Mississippi: Sharon Sayles Belton

Sharon Sayles Belton has a spring in her step as she peers over the edge of the Saint Anthony Falls lock wall to view the cascading falls below. She looks up at to the Minneapolis skyline along the Mississippi Riverfront, a landscape that she shaped as mayor from 1994 – 2001.

parkconnectionSeptember 14, 2020

The Stories We Tell

We invite you to join us in this continual process of making our programs more accessible, the river more equitable, and the stories we tell more diverse, to create a park that is truly inclusive for all.

parkconnectionSeptember 7, 2020

Women of the Mississippi River

Women of the Mississippi River is a collection of stories on historical and contemporary women who contributed immensely to the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

parkconnectionAugust 26, 2020

Women of the Mississippi: Eva McDonald Valesh

Eva McDonald Valesh was an investigative journalist and labor activist. She exposed unsafe conditions for women workers in the Twin Cities during the late nineteenth century and became a prominent labor writer and speaker.

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When Work is an Adventure

parkconnectionJuly 30, 2020

Women of the Mississippi: Sharon Day

One foot after the other, Sharon Day walks the waterways of North America, leaving ripples of positive change across the spiritual, political, environmental, and cultural landscapes.