2/17/2024 0 Comments Stone arch bridge minneapolis![]() Mill City Farmers Market 4) Unofficial Stone Arch Sandbox There’s weekly music and rotating family entertainment. Plus, kids can join the Power of Produce (P.O.P.) Club. This is our favorite market to hit up in the Minneapolis-St Paul area because of the easy walk to so many family attractions. The farmer’s market is full of goods, music and food trucks. Grab your water bottles and explore Mill Ruins Park. You can print a fun Fabled Falls Forgotten Walls Quest (PDF) courtesy of Minneapolis Parks to turn your visit into an adventure. It’s beautiful with a great view of the river. Mill Ruins Park is a fun park to explore. Once an old railroad bridge, there is plenty to see, do and learn as you stroll the Stone Arch Bridge 2) Discover Mill Ruins Park You also get a wonderful birds-eye view of St Anthony Falls, once instrumental in powering the milling industry in Minneapolis, or use the mounted binoculars to get a closer look. The bridge spans between Mill Ruins Park on the south end and Father Hennepin Bluff Park on the north side. 1) Stroll across the Stone Arch BridgeĪs the most obvious thing to do, you won’t be disappointed as you cross the Mississippi on foot where trains used to roll. ( Mill Ruins Park is part of the bigger Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park which spans the Minneapolis riverfront and provides pedestrian walkways, bike paths and more.) And history. ![]() ![]() We found all kinds of things for locals and tourists! A plethora of parks that converged on this scenic spot, for one. Besides walking across the limestone and granite bridge, I wondered, what is there to do in the area? It took an out-of-state visitor to Minnesota–my friend Melody from GRKids - to help me appreciate all the different things to do. The Stone Arch Bridge is a beautiful and historical landmark for many locals. Twin Cities Things To Do With Kids This Month (By Age).“It's vital for me to make sure that we recognize that being and that spirit that is there, was there and will always be there. “It has a spirit of presence about it,” Buck said. It was known as a place where Dakota people gathered to pray and women gave birth before the island was quarried for limestone to help build Minneapolis. Spirit IslandĪs a Dakota woman, Buck said it’s important to her that any plans include an acknowledgment of where Spirit Island once stood. “The fact that Friends of the Falls made that huge change over to wanting to tell that story is just enormous,” Buck said.īringing in Native people to facilitate the conversation and take over leadership of the organization is “just unheard of,” she said.īuck said there needs to be more discussion and gathering input from the Dakota tribes before any decisions are made about ownership of the site. On Friday, the group announced that Shelley Buck, a former tribal leader of the Prairie Island Indian Community, will replace Andrew as president. The group’s board of directors is now majority Native-led.īuck said most Minnesotans aren’t taught about the history of the state pre-European contact. “So to transform that kind of industrial landscape into what could be an incredible and accessible restored native landscape, where people can gather, where you can go down to the water.” New leadership “There's this idea of making this a place where people can touch the water, again - where the water is allowed, is bringing things to life,” said project director Kjersti Duval, CEO of Duval Companies.
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