Itasca State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The park spans 32,690 acres of northern Minnesota, and is located about 21 miles no
The headwaters of the Mississippi River in Itasca State Park
The first bridge (and only log bridge) over the Mississippi, about 25 feet west of its source at Lake Itasca
Old-growth red pine, Itasca State Park
Tourists wade the Mississippi near Lake Itasca in 2007
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to
Itasca State Park
…Itasca State Park ( ) is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The park spans 32,690 acres (132.3 km2) of northern Minnesota, and is located…
Mixed Dakota-Europeans who were rescued by "non-hostile" Dakota. The girl in the foreground wrapped in the striped blanket is Elise Robertson, the sister of Thomas Robertson, a mixed blood who acted as an intermediary between the Dakota and the European-Americans during the Dakota War of 1862
Phelps Mill in Otter Tail County
Tilted beds of the Middle Precambrian Thomson Formation in Jay Cooke State Park
Palisade Head on Lake Superior was formed from a Precambrian rhyolitic lava flow.