The following is a press release from the Minnesota River Watershed Alliance: In the late 1950s, few people took much interest in the Minnesota River as it flowed out of Big Stone Dam on a 335 ...

Take a look at these facts and make yourself a river expert in no time. The Mississippi begins at Minnesota’s Lake Itasca. Visitors there can see the headwaters and cross the river on foot ...

Minnesota is a Midwestern powerhouse ... long dispute regarding which body of water in the area was truly the river's headwaters: Lake Itasca itself. The lake and its rocky shallows are a visitor ...