CALLING ALL GEOCACHERS! Did you find one of our cards in a Minnesota State Park or Great River Road Interpretive Center? Click here to claim your collector's item. Be sure to enter the park or center name, code phrase, your name and mailing address. Where are the caches? More information on geoaching along the National Great River Road |
Celebrating the Mississippi River in MinnesotaNEED MAPS OR TRAVEL INFORMATION? Click to view our latest releases. Great River Road Regional Maps with Travel Ideas Minnesota Great River Road Explorer's Guide A new opportunity... For river music to help you celebrate, visit www.gisellebonfaire.com. Giselle Bonfaire's music was featured at the 2009 meeting of the Mississippi River Parkway Commission in Red Wing, MN, and she has now released a CD to take you along the river and share in its stories from north to south. The Mississippi River is a treasure to be uncovered and explored. Her history runs deep as a long-whiskered catfish on a hot summer day. Her tales are timeless. Discover her stories, and create some of your own on a pleasure drive along the Minnesota Great River Road - National Scenic Byway of the Mississippi River. The Great River Road offers 575 miles of historic and scenic touring through the heart of Minnesota. The byway meanders through a wide variety of landscapes — the humble headwaters, countryside dappled with lakes, the northwoods, ribbons of lush resort and farm country, rolling bluffs, big cities and charming river communities. Worthy of a week's vacation in its entirety, the Mississippi flows naturally through six distinct regions whose unique river experiences can be explored on excursions of any length. Follow the lure of the river and the freedom of the road to see what lies around the next bend. Pull out a map, tune in some good driving music and load up the car, a van, motorcycle or bike. Your Mississippi River adventure is just waiting to begin. See you on the Great River Road!
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The Mississippi River is a water source for over 4 million people.
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