Hello everyone, Ranger Liz here, and welcome to the last part of our visitor center tour.
Today, we are going to be looking at our map.
As you're walking down our hallway you might not notice that you're actually stepping on one of our displays.
It is a large floor map of about 100 miles worth of riverway going from Nelson's Landing all the way down
to the confluence of the St. Croix River with the Mississippi River.
Today we're gonna take a trip upstream on the St. Croix River hitting some points of interest along the way.
Our first point of interest is the confluence of the St. Croix and the Mississippi River at Prescott, Wisconsin.
Also a community close to this confluence is this city right here, Hastings, Minnesota.
Going upstream, the next point of interest is this land formation, called the Kinnickinnic Narrows,
which is formed when the Kinni River flows into the St. Croix.
As you can see, in this area the river gets very wide. The water also flows very slowly, so we refer to this area as
Lake St. Croix. Next to Lake St. Croix is the town of Hudson, Wisconsin and going through Hudson,
is freeway 94. Freeway 94 will lead you all the way to the Twin Cities.
North of there, is the town of Stillwater, Minnesota and if you look closely on our map, you can even see
downtown Stillwater.
Our next point of interest is our popular recreation area known as, Osceola Landing.
Now just a little farther upstream is our visitor center where this lovely map that we are showing you now can
be found.
The just eleven miles upriver, is the former spot of Never's Dam.
The next stop on our river is going to be highway 70, which leads directly into downtown Grantsburg.
Follow the river upstream a little bit, and you'll find the confluence with the Snake River, which happens to look
like a snake.
Follow upstream a little bit more, and you'll find the confluence with the Kettle River as well as the
Kettle River Slough which is known for its rapids during our high water season.
Finally, approaching the end of our map, is Nelson's Landing.
Thank you for joining us on our tour of the visitor center. we wish we were open to have you experience all of this
together but we are bringing the visitor center to you and hopefully we can see you soon as well. See ya! Bye!