Welcome to the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway website. We hope you find the site useful, your understanding and appreciation for the Riverway grows, and you will join us in caring for this remarkable national resource. The Riverway includes 154 miles of the St. Croix River from Gordon, Wisconsin to its confluence with the Mississippi River and the entire 98 miles of its Namekagon tributary. The St. Croix River is one of the last undisturbed, large floodplain rivers in the upper Mississippi River System. The Riverway is an unrivaled combination of exceptional natural and cultural resources and scenic, aesthetic and recreational values.

The Riverway boundary outlines an irregular, narrow corridor averaging about 1/2 mile wide along these two rivers. A mosaic of ownership includes the National Park Service, private landowners, the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, counties, and communities. Caring for the Riverway is a story of people and organizations working diligently over many years. River dynamics and industrious humans provide excitement and challenge to the tale. Camping on islands and shorelines is a popular activity on the river. We are studying camping on the Riverway between St. Croix Falls/Taylors Falls and the North City limits of Stillwater. We invite you to help us identify camping related issues as well as potential solutions to problems in this area.

Whether you are here to gather information for a visit, do research for a term paper, or just find out what is happening on the Riverway, we hope this site has what you need. Our goal is to provide a site that meets all of your informational needs. Let us know what you think about this site.