St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
Saint Bonifacius, often stylized as St. Bonifacius, is a small city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, 25 miles west of Minneapolis. Settled in the 1850s, the town has a combination of rural and exurban features. It is completely surrounded by Minnetrista, Minnesota, and is close to the county line with Carver County. It hosted a Nike Hercules battery during the Cold War, one of four protecting Minneapolis–Saint Paul from Soviet bombers.
St. Bonifacius Library
Bridge over Minnesota State Highway 7 in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, part of the Dakota Rail Regional Trail, a biking and hiking trail
City Hall
St. Boniface Catholic Church has been in St. Bonifacius for 150 years.
Dakota Rail Regional Trail
The Dakota Rail Trail runs 28.1 miles (42.6Â km) from Wayzata to Lester Prairie, Minnesota. It is on part of the former track bed of the Hutchinson Spur of the Great Northern Railway. The railway line helped bring wheat and raw materials from Central Minnesota to the flour mills, factories and warehouses in Minneapolis from 1885 until 2001. The railway line, from which there are views of the countryside, was also designed to bring tourists to the communities on Lake Minnetonka in the late 1880s.
The trail entering Mound
Modern bridge over Minnesota State Highway 7 in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
Arcola bridge, the longest bridge over Lake Minnetonka.
Tanager Lake Bridge