• Enjoying the Mississippi River

    Mississippi

    National River & Recreation Area Minnesota

Mussel Outside

The outside of a mussel shell.
The outside of a mussel shell.

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Did You Know?

Lock and Dam Number 1 from a long distance.

At Lake Itasca, the elevation of the Mississippi River is 1,475 feet above sea level. It drops to sea level at the Gulf of Mexico. More than half of that drop occurs within the state of Minnesota.