Indian Mounds Regional Park

Wicaḣapi is a public park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, featuring six burial mounds overlooking the Mississippi River. The oldest mounds were constructed about 2,500 years ago by local Indigenous people linked to the Archaic period, who may have been inspired by the burial style known as the Hopewell Tradition.

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Type: Park
Description: park in Minnesota, United States
Also known as: “Indian Mounds Park”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Paul Downtown Airport and Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.

St. Paul Downtown Airport

Aerodrome

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St. Paul Downtown Airport, also known as Holman Field, is an airport just across the Mississippi River from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is one of several reliever airports in the Twin Cities operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission.

Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary

Nature reserve

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Waḳaƞ Ṭípi is a city park in the Mississippi River corridor in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Just east of the city's downtown district, the sanctuary includes towering limestone and sandstone bluffs that date back more than 450 million years, spring-fed wetlands, abundant bird life, and dramatic views of the downtown Saint Paul skyline and Mississippi River.

Harding Senior High School

School

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Harding Senior High School is a public comprehensive high school located on the East Side of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The school is one of the nine high schools in the Saint Paul Public School District and is the largest high school in the city of Saint Paul, with enrollment at approximately 1,908.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lowertown Historic District and Saint Paul.

Lowertown Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Lowertown Historic District is a historic district in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. This 16-block warehouse and wholesaling district comprises 37 contributing properties built between the 1870s and1920. Lowertown Historic District is situated 1½ miles west of Indian Mounds Regional Park.

Saint Paul

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Saint Paul is the capital city and the second largest city of the US state of Minnesota. Along with the slightly larger Minneapolis it forms the urban core of the Twin Cities region, the third largest metropolis in the Midwest.

West Saint Paul

Town

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West St. Paul is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 20,615 at the 2020 census. It is immediately south of Saint Paul and immediately west of South St. Paul. West Saint Paul is situated 3 miles southwest of Indian Mounds Regional Park.

Indian Mounds Regional Park

Category: urban park
Location: Ramsey, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.94608° or 44° 56′ 46″ north

Longitude

-93.05216° or 93° 3′ 8″ west

Elevation

876 feet (267 metres)

Open location code

86P8WWWX+C4

GeoNames ID

5031238

Wikidata ID

Q3150092

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to French—“Indian Mounds Regional Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Indian Mounds Park”
Dutch: “Indian Mounds Park”
French: “Indian Mounds Park”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Greater East Side and Highwood.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mounds Park Hospital and Municipal Forest.

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