This is Ranger Dale Cox with the National Park Service.
I'm standing today in front of the Namekagon River Visitor Center.
This facility is typically only open during the summer months for periods of time, and
we realize a lot of people have not had the chance to see the exhibits or hear the stories
to be told inside this facility.
For that reason, we're going to share these through video.
These videos will tell you about the history of the river, what you can do here, and why
it's part of the National Park System.
So we invite you to take your time, watch these videos, learn about this park.
Come on inside.
Hi, I'd like to share a little information with you about the Namekagon River.
The Namekagon River headwaters is at Lake Namekagon.
The Namekagon River then flows for 99.5 miles until it meets up with the St. Croix River.
If you were to stop into the visitor center we could provide you with maps.
Map 1 covers from the headwaters down to Hayward, map 2 covers from Hayward down to our visitor
center, and map 3 covers from County K Landing down to the confluence.
If you were to pick up one of the maps what you could get from that are where the individual
campsites are, where the group campsites are, where there is water.
Currently on the river, there's water at Earl Park Landing and at Howell Landing.
The only two locations on the river where you can get water on the river.
If you stick around now with us for the next few weeks, we're going to have videos talking
about the entire Riverway and sharing with you a lot of it from the rangers that work here.
We hope you stick around and enjoy the videos that are coming up.
Thank you.