Mississippi Headwaters, Lake Itasca

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• By Sandy O

  A park sticker gains you entrance to all the trails in the park, but also to the Headwaters of the Mississippi River. A lake, flowing into a small stream is hard to imagine becoming the wide...  more »

• By Cleefeet

  I had been to the Mississippi headwaters as a child, never as an adult. So, I finally made it back up there and renewed my memory of it. What a treat for a child to say she walked across the river...  more »

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