Trails · Eight essentials

Meet the City

The eight places that explain the Twin Cities: the room Prince filmed in, the museum you would fly to see, the bridge, the falls, the mill ruins, the studios. Finish this and you are of the metro, not just in it.

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Locals take years to do this list. Visitors have done it in a week. Both count.

  1. 01
    First Avenue & 7th St Entry Downtown Minneapolis

    The room. The black stars on the wall track everyone who has played it.

  2. 02
    Stone Arch Bridge and the Mill District Downtown Minneapolis

    The 1883 stone rail bridge over Saint Anthony Falls. The city’s essential walk.

  3. 03
    Mill City Museum Mississippi Riverfront

    A museum in the ruins of the flour mill that made Minneapolis. Ride the Flour Tower.

  4. 04
    Walker Art Center Lowry Hill

    Contemporary art at national scale, with the Sculpture Garden and the Spoonbridge across the way.

  5. 05
    Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) Whittier

    Ninety thousand objects, five thousand years, free admission.

  6. 06
    Minnehaha Falls Park South Minneapolis

    A 53-foot waterfall inside city limits. Go once in summer and once frozen.

  7. 07
    Como Park Como

    Free zoo, the McNeely Conservatory, a Japanese garden. The kind of park America stopped building.

  8. 08
    Northrup King Building Northeast Minneapolis

    Nine floors of working artist studios. Go on a First Thursday, or brave Art-A-Whirl in May.

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