Fort Snelling State Park

Fort Snelling State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of Minnesota, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. For many centuries, the area of the modern park has been of importance to the Mdewakanton Dakota people who consider it the center of the Earth.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport and Fort Snelling.

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport is the major airport of the Twin Cities region, 7 miles south of downtown Minneapolis and 7 miles southwest of Saint Paul.

Fort Snelling

Protected area

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Fort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.

Terminal 2

Railway station

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Terminal 2–Humphrey station is a light rail station is on the Metro Blue Line. It is the fifteenth stop southbound. This is an island platform station and is typically accessed via a partially covered walkway from Terminal 2 of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also known as the Humphrey Terminal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mendota and Mendota Heights.

Mendota

Village

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Mendota is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The name is a mispronunciation of the Dakota word for the location, bdóte, which in Dakota tradition is the center of the world.

Mendota Heights

Town

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Mendota Heights is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. It is a first-ring southern suburb of the Twin Cities. The population was 11,744 at the 2020 census.

Bdóte

Locality

Bdóte is a significant Dakota sacred landscape where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet, encompassing Pike Island, Fort Snelling, Coldwater Spring, Indian Mounds Park, and surrounding areas in present-day Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.