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National Park Week: Friendship Friday

The Minnesota national park sites are teaming up this year to bring a virtual National Park Week experience to you. Explore all six sites through live online activities, downloadable workbooks, solo adventuring in a local park, trip planning live chats, and connecting on social media.

Want to support your national park during National Park Week? Learn how today!


Friendship Friday

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In times of joy and peace or sorrow and uncertainty, parks are an essential community space and resource. Parks bring the community back in balance by providing needed support. When we care for the river, we are caring for our community. 

Nearly every national park in the country has a friends group or co-op that gives monetary, programming, staffing and/or operational support. Friends groups are vital to the daily operations of the park as well as providing supplemental programming and funding where the government budget falls short. Mississippi Park Connection works side by side with the National Park Service to bring educational programming, environmental stewardship opportunities and fun events to the community surrounding the park. You, too, can help support the park with a donation or by becoming a member!


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Join Ranger Paula for #CoffeeWithARanger to learn how to search and apply for jobs on usajobs.gov, the central hub for National Park Service job listings. More than 200 jobs in and around Saint Paul, Minn. are open to the public right now, and more than 7,500 jobs are available across the country! Ranger Paula will demonstrate how to use the filters to find a job or two that might interest you.