Answers to some intriguing places within the Minnesota River Basin.
       
 





Triple Falls in a small valley off the Blue Earth River
Photos: Deb Holmstrom
 





Muskrat house in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Photos: Scott Sharkey
 




Glacial erratic (a rock transported by a glacier) in the middle of the Blue Earth River
Photos: Deb Holmstrom
 



Frozen winter and green spring Minneopa Falls in Minneopa State Park
Photos: Kim Musser
 
Boiling Springs on Eagle Creek near the City of Savage (Scott County). This artesian boiling spring has long been a sacred place for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota.
Photos: Scott Sharkey and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/rprp/eaglecreek/index.html
http://www.hort.agri.umn.edu/h5015/96papers/pphifer.htm 
 


The annual Laura Ingalls Wilder Pagent in Walnut Grove and the sod house in Sanborn.
Photos: www.walnutgrove.org

http://www.walnutgrove.org
http://www.sodhouse.org

   





Massive flocks of Canada Geese at Lac qui Parle. Incredible sight in the fall with as many as 150,000 geese.
Photos: Western Minnesota Prairie Waters and C. Henderson
  Windmills on Buffalo Ridge in and near the basin. Many windmills are located on the western highlands within the basin - called the Coteau des Prairies
Photo: Sustainable Minnesota
 


Blue Earth River dam at Rapidan.
Photos: Kim Musser

 
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